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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3675.6. Assessments; payments; lien

RS 33:3675.6 - Assessments; payments; lien
Upon the receipt of the certified statement or report of the engineer as provided for in R.S. 33:3675.5, the governing authority shall adopt an ordinance levying a local or special assessment on each lot or parcel of real estate in the area involved in proportion that its area bears to the total area, as herein provided. The total of all such local or special assessments shall represent the total cost of the improvements, including street intersections, engineers' fees, and all other costs incidental to the work. The amounts assessed in the ordinance shall be due and collectible immediately on its passage, and, if not paid within thirty days from the date of the adoption of the ordinance, it will be conclusively presumed that any property owner whose property is affected thereby, exercises the right and option, which is hereby authorized, to pay the amount due in equal annual installments bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per centum (6%) per annum, payable annually, and extending over a period not exceeding fifteen years, as provided for in the ordinance levying the local or special assessments. The first installment shall become due on December 31 of the then current year and annually thereafter. The local or special assessments may be carried on the tax roll of the municipality and collected at the same time as taxes. The failure to pay any installments and the interest thereon when due, shall ipso facto cause all other installments and the interest thereon to become due and payable and the municipality shall within thirty days from the date of such default, proceed against the property for the collection of the total amount due thereon, including interest, plus ten (10%) per cent additional on principal and interest unpaid as attorney's fees. A certified copy of the ordinance levying the local or special assessments on the real estate shall be filed with the clerk of court in the parish in which the municipality is situated, who shall forthwith record the same in the mortgage records of the parish, and when so filed and recorded, shall operate as a lien and privilege against all real estate therein assessed. The payments made in cash shall be expended for no other purpose than for the payment of the cost of the improvements.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 517, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3675.7. Certificates

RS 33:3675.7 - Certificates
Municipalities complying with the provisions of this Sub-part may issue, execute, negotiate, sell and deliver negotiable interest bearing coupon certificates of the municipality in an amount not exceeding the total amount of the installments or deferred payments as provided in R.S. 33:3675.6, the certificates to bear interest not exceeding six per centum (6%) per annum payable annually and maturing serially over a period not exceeding fifteen years. In no event shall the certificates extend over a longer period of time than that provided for by the ordinance levying the local or special assessments which may be payable in annual installments. The certificates shall be of such form, date, denomination, and payable in principal and interest at such time, and place as the governing authority may determine; the certificates shall be secured by and paid from, in principal and interest, the irrevocable pledge and dedication of the funds derived from the levy and collection of the special assessments as hereinabove provided and shall be payable in annual installments or deferred payments as provided for by this Sub-part, which funds shall be set aside in a separate fund and shall not be drawn upon for any other purpose than to pay the principal and interest of the certificates.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 517, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3675.8. Additional assessments

RS 33:3675.8 - Additional assessments
In the event the local and special assessments originally levied are insufficient to pay the principal or interest or both in any one year, of the certificates outstanding at their respective maturity dates, then the municipality issuing the certificates, through its governing authority, shall levy and collect, at such time as may be necessary, an additional local or special assessment on each lot or parcel of real estate in the area involved, sufficient in amount to pay in full the principal or interest or both of the certificates at their respective maturity dates. The amounts assessed in the ordinance shall be due and collectible immediately on its passage and if not paid within thirty days from the date of its adoption, the municipality shall proceed against the property for the collection of the amount of the additional local or special assessment so levied, plus interest thereon and ten per cent (10%) additional for attorney's fees. A certified copy of each ordinance providing for the levy and collection of the additional local or special assessment shall be filed with the clerk of court of the parish in which the municipality is located promptly upon its adoption, who shall forthwith record the same in the mortgage records of the parish and when so filed and recorded the ordinance shall operate as a lien and privilege against all the real estate therein assessed.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 517, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3675.9. Form of certificates; registration

RS 33:3675.9 - Form of certificates; registration
The certificates shall be signed by the chief executive officer of the municipality and by its clerk or secretary, on behalf of and in the name of the municipality and under the seal thereof. The interest coupons shall be signed with the facsimile signature of the said officers, and before delivery, shall be registered in the mortgage records of the parish in which the municipality is located as to the serial number or numbers, amount, rate of interest, dates due, and streets, roads, or alleys, or parts thereof improved. Each of the certificates shall bear the following endorsement:
"This certificate registered in the Mortgage Records of the Parish of __________ on this the _____ day of _____________, 20___.
________________________
Clerk of Court and Ex Officio
Recorder of Mortgages,
Parish of ____________."
Added by Acts 1956, No. 517, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3675.10. Delivery of certificates; collections; use of proceeds

RS 33:3675.10 - Delivery of certificates; collections; use of proceeds
The governing authority of the municipality issuing the certificates, may, by resolution, authorize the chief executive officer, and the clerk or secretary to negotiate and deliver the paving certificates and collect the purchase price therefor and do any and all things necessary and incidental thereto, or authorize delivery to the contractor or all or any of the certificates in payment of their contractual obligation covering the improvements. The funds derived from the sale of the paving certificates shall be expended solely in payment of the costs of the improvements, and shall not be drawn upon for any other purpose.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 517, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3675.11. Requisites of negotiable paper; incontestability

RS 33:3675.11 - Requisites of negotiable paper; incontestability
Certificates issued hereunder shall have all the requisites of negotiable paper and shall not be invalid for any irregularity or defect in the proceedings for their issuance, sale, or delivery, and shall be incontestable in the hands of bona fide purchasers or holders for value.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 517, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3675.12. Final inspection; payment

RS 33:3675.12 - Final inspection; payment
The governing authority of any municipality taking advantage of the provisions of this Sub-part, shall, upon the completion of any contract awarded as provided for herein, provide for the final inspection of the work performed and the improvements made, and if the work is found to have been completed satisfactorily in accordance with the contract, as evidenced by a certificate of the engineer for the municipality, the governing authority shall, by ordinance, approve and accept the work and fulfill their obligations under the contract by full payment of all amounts due the contractor including all retained percentages of payments previously made thereon on engineer's estimates, which percentages were retained pending the completion of the work.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 517, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3675.13. Employment of engineers and attorneys; duties

RS 33:3675.13 - Employment of engineers and attorneys; duties
Municipalities which take advantage of the provisions of this Sub-part may through their governing authorities engage the services of an engineer and provide for his payment. This engineer shall prepare all plans and specifications for the work, and the governing authority shall approve them by a resolution. The engineer shall inspect the work as let in accordance with contracts hereunder and shall issue to the contractor his estimates thereon from time to time as the work progresses, which estimates may be paid by the municipality either in full or by the retention of twenty per cent thereof as retained percentage. Upon final completion of the work the engineer shall render a report to the governing authority of the municipality as to the completion of the work in a satisfactory manner, which report shall be duly certified, and in addition, the engineer shall perform all engineering duties required of him in this Sub-part. The governing authority of the municipality may employ an attorney to handle all legal work in connection with the improvements, and provide for the payment of his fee. The attorney, in addition to his other duties, shall prepare a complete transcript of the record of the proceedings covering each project completed hereunder.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 517, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3675.14. Liability of railroads

RS 33:3675.14 - Liability of railroads
In the event a railway bed or track, other than one owned by the municipality, occupies a portion of a street, road or alley, the owner of the railway shall pay of the total cost of the work, the proportion that the area occupied by the railroad bears to the total area of the street, road, or alley, to be improved and also the cost of the extra work made necessary by the presence of the track in the street, road or alley.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 517, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3675.15. Certificates not included in computing municipal indebtedness

RS 33:3675.15 - Certificates not included in computing municipal indebtedness
Certificates issued under the provisions of this Sub-part shall not be included in computing the indebtedness of the municipality for the purpose of determining any constitutional or statutory limitation of indebtedness.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 517, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3675.16. Certificates tax exempt; security for deposits

RS 33:3675.16 - Certificates tax exempt; security for deposits
All certificates issued under the provisions of this Sub-part shall be exempt from taxation. They shall be acceptable as security for any deposit of public funds.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 517, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3675.17. Limitation on contesting validity of resolutions and proceedings

RS 33:3675.17 - Limitation on contesting validity of resolutions and proceedings
No contest, action or proceedings to question the validity or legality of any resolutions adopted or proceedings had under the provision of this Sub-part shall be begun in any court by any person for any cause whatsoever, after the expiration of thirty days from the date when the resolution was adopted, or proceedings had, and after such time the regularity of such resolution or proceeding shall be conclusively presumed.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 517, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3681. Police juries authorized to improve streets and sidewalks

RS 33:3681 - Police juries authorized to improve streets and sidewalks
The police juries may pave, plank, gravel, macadamize, or otherwise improve the streets and alleys or any part thereof not less than one block in length, and the sidewalks, or any part thereof, and construct curbing in areas outside of municipalities and may levy and collect special taxes or local assessments on all real estate abutting the streets, alleys, sidewalks, or curbing to be improved or constructed for the purpose of defraying the costs of the improvement, either in whole or in part, as hereinafter provided.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3682. Petition of abutting owners

RS 33:3682 - Petition of abutting owners
Upon the written petition of the owners of not less than fifty per cent of the front footage of land abutting a street or road, or portion thereof, to be improved, any parish, Orleans excepted, shall improve such street or road, or portion thereof one block or more in length, and may levy and collect special taxes or local assessments on the property abutting the street or road to be improved for the purpose of defraying the entire cost of the improvement, the abutting real estate owners shall be determined by the conveyance records of the parish in which such property is situated.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 71, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3682.1. Petition of abutting owners in Livingston Parish

RS 33:3682.1 - Petition of abutting owners in Livingston Parish
Upon the written petition of not less than fifty percent of the individual owners of land abutting a street, a road, or streets inclusive within a subdivision, or any portion of such a street or road to be improved, the governing authority of Livingston Parish may improve such street, road, or streets inclusive within a subdivision, or portion thereof one block or more in length and may levy and collect special taxes or local assessments on the property abutting the street, road, or streets inclusive within a subdivision, or portion thereof, to be improved for the purpose of defraying the entire cost of the improvement. The abutting real estate owners shall be determined by the conveyance records of Livingston Parish.
Acts 1989, No. 253, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3682.2. Petition of abutting landowners in Caddo Parish

RS 33:3682.2 - Petition of abutting landowners in Caddo Parish
Upon the written petition of the owners of not less than fifty percent of the front footage of land abutting a street, road, or streets inclusive within a subdivision, or any portion thereof, the same being contiguous with a publicly maintained street or road, the governing authority of Caddo Parish may improve such street, road, or subdivision streets, or portion thereof, and may levy and collect special taxes or local assessments on the property abutting same for the purpose of defraying the costs of the improvements, in whole or in part. The abutting real estate owners shall be determined by the conveyance records of Caddo Parish.
Acts 1990, No. 429, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3683. Preparation of specifications; ordinance ordering improvement; advertising for bids; awarding contract

RS 33:3683 - Preparation of specifications; ordinance ordering improvement; advertising for bids; awarding contract
Upon receipt of a petition requesting the improvement the parish governing body shall prepare plans and specifications of the work to be placed on file in the secretary's or parish engineer's office, and shall adopt an ordinance ordering and describing in general terms the contemplated improvement, and authorizing the secretary of the police jury to advertise for bids. The advertisement shall be inserted at least weekly for three weeks in the official journal of the parish, the first insertion to be not less than fifteen days prior to the date fixed for the reception of the bids. The advertisement shall contain a general description of the contemplated improvement, shall refer to the plans and specifications on file, and shall designate the hour, date, and place for the reception and opening of the bids. The police jury shall let the contract to the lowest responsible bidder who can furnish satisfactory security, but shall have the right to reject any and all bids.
Amended by Acts 1968, No. 67, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3684. Liability of abutting property owners

RS 33:3684 - Liability of abutting property owners
The total costs of improving sidewalks and curbing, including corners, as herein provided, shall be paid for by the owners of the real estate abutting upon the sidewalks or curbing on the basis of the respective frontage of the property on the sidewalk or curbing to be paved or improved, by ascertaining the entire expense of the improvement and charging it upon each lot or parcel of real estate in the proportion that its frontage or abutment bears to that of all the abutting lots or parcels of real estate to be improved.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3684.1. Liability of abutting property owners in Livingston Parish

RS 33:3684.1 - Liability of abutting property owners in Livingston Parish
Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:3383 and 3384 to the contrary, the total cost of improving a street, a road, streets inclusive within a subdivision, sidewalks, or curbing, including corners, in Livingston Parish, as herein provided, shall be paid by the individual owners of the real estate abutting upon the street, road, streets inclusive within a subdivision, sidewalks, or curbing. The total cost of such improvement shall be paid by the individual owners by ascertaining the entire expense of the improvement and dividing such expense equally among each lot or parcel of real estate abutting the improvement.
Acts 1989, No. 253, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3685. Apportionment of cost

RS 33:3685 - Apportionment of cost
The entire cost, including costs of culverts, headers, filling, engineering, attorney's fees, labor, and material, of the improvement shall be apportioned as follows: (1) The abutting real estate owners shall pay all the costs of paving or improving streets and street intersections, the cost of the intersection to be pro-rated against all of the property abutting the street; (2) When a railway occupies a portion of the street or alley, the owner thereof shall pay in the proportion that the area of the space occupied by its roadbed bears to the total area of the street, alley or portion thereof to be improved.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3686. Acceptance of improvement; assessment and lien

RS 33:3686 - Acceptance of improvement; assessment and lien
Where any street, alley, sidewalk, curbing, or portion thereof is paved, or otherwise improved, the police jury shall, upon the final satisfactory completion of the work, accept the same by ordinance and provide for an assessment of all abutting real estate and railway tracks and roadbeds in the amounts respectively due by the owners thereof according to the rules of the apportionment provided for in R.S. 33:3684 and R.S. 33:3685, each assessment being separately numbered; a certified copy of which ordinance containing said assessment shall, upon its passage, be filed for record in the office of the recorder of mortgages in the parish in which such assessed property is situated, and the same, when so filed and recorded, shall operate as a lien and privilege in favor of the parish in which the work is done, against all properties herein assessed which lien and privilege shall prime all other claims except taxes. The ordinance accepting the work and providing for the assessment of the abutting real estate owners shall provide for the payment of interest upon deferred installments and upon delinquent installments at a rate to be fixed by the police jury, but not to exceed five per cent per annum.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 71, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3687. Enforcement of assessment

RS 33:3687 - Enforcement of assessment
A. The amount assessed in the ordinance shall be due and exigible immediately upon its passage, and, if not paid within thirty days after the passage of the ordinance, the parish may proceed by suit against the assessed properties and owners thereof to enforce collection together with twenty percent of the amount of judgment recovered as attorney's fees; and all delinquent assessments shall bear interest at the rate fixed by the parish governing authority pursuant to R.S. 33:3686.
B. In any suit to collect delinquent assessments, a certified copy of the assessment ordinance, and any affidavits and exhibits annexed thereto which establish the correctness of the delinquent assessments shall be admissible, self-authenticating, and sufficient to establish prima facie proof of such demand.
C. The governing authority of Jefferson Parish, the governing authority of Livingston Parish, or the governing authority of Caddo Parish may, at its option, enact ordinances to add such delinquent assessment charges to the annual ad valorem tax bill of the property involved. In the event such ordinances are enacted, the sheriff effecting collection shall be reimbursed by the governing authority for an amount equal to fifteen percent of the amount of such charges actually collected from the property owner. This collection charge shall be in addition to such delinquent assessment charges and shall also be added to the ad valorem tax bill of the property involved.
Amended by Acts 1954, No. 607, §1; Acts 1970, No. 484, §1; Acts 1987, No. 650, §1, eff. July 9, 1987; Acts 1989, No. 253, §1; Acts 1990, No. 429, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689. Local assessment ordinances; record of proceedings

RS 33:3689 - Local assessment ordinances; record of proceedings
All ordinances relative to sidewalks and street paving and curb constructions shall be known as "Local Assessment Ordinances" and shall be numbered separately from other ordinances of the parish, and all petitions, bids, resolutions, ordinances, and all proceedings of the police jury relative to sidewalk and street improvements shall be copied by the secretary or clerk of the police jury in a separate book, and certified excerpts from the same shall be received as evidence.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689.1. Authority to construct and improve streets and sidewalks

RS 33:3689.1 - Authority to construct and improve streets and sidewalks
A. The parishes in the state of Louisiana, through the police juries as the governing authorities thereof, shall have, and are hereby vested with, full power and authority to construct, pave, surface, or otherwise improve, together with the necessary curbing, guttering, aprons, drains, and headers, the streets, roads, sidewalks, and alleys, or any part thereof, within their corporate limits and outside of municipal corporations, at such time or times as they determine, and shall have full power and authority to levy and collect local or special assessments on the real property abutting such improvements sufficient in amount to defray the total cost of said works, including street intersections, all in the form and manner and subject to the limitations and restrictions herein contained.
B.(1) For the purposes of R.S. 33:3689.1 through 3689.17, real property subject to special assessments shall not include any lake, river, bayou, or similar body of water which abuts a street, road, alley, or sidewalk to be constructed or improved. A parish governing authority shall defray the costs of such work by the levy and collection of special assessments against abutting lots or parcels or similar tracts of land.
(2) Paragraph (1) of this Subsection shall not apply to privately owned lakes or water bodies used for commercial purposes. However, it shall expressly apply to any lake or water body owned by a nonprofit homeowners corporation, regardless of its use, which lake or water body shall therefore not be subject to any special assessment levied pursuant to R.S. 33:3689.1 through 3689.17.
Acts 1952, No. 430, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1332, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689.2. Notice of intention

RS 33:3689.2 - Notice of intention
Any parish taking advantage of R.S. 33:3689.1 to 33:3689.17, shall, through its police jury as the governing authority thereof, be required to adopt a resolution giving notice of its intention to construct, pave, surface or otherwise improve, together with the necessary curbing, guttering, aprons, headers, and drains, the street or streets, road or roads, sidewalk or sidewalks, alley or alleys, or any part thereof, proposed to be so improved, and embody therein in a general way the improvements contemplated and the manner of payment therefor. Such notice shall be signed by the president of the police jury, duly attested by the secretary thereof and shall contain substantially all things set forth in said resolution, and shall set forth further that the police jury will, in open session, on the date and at the time and place named, proceed to hear any and all objections to the proposed improvements and the manner of payment therefor, and after hearing and passing on such objections, proceed if it so determines, to order such improvements constructed in the manner hereinafter provided. Such notice of intention shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the parish, and the first publication shall be made not less than fifteen days before the date fixed for the said hearing of objections.
Acts 1952, No. 430, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689.3. Objections

RS 33:3689.3 - Objections
The police jury of any parish shall not order the construction of said improvements in the event there is filed at the public hearing written objection to the proposed improvement signed by the property owners owning more than one-half of the total front feet of property abutting on the street, road, sidewalk or alleys, or portion thereof, to be improved and which will be assessed to pay the cost of such improvements; the majority shall be determined after considering the front footage of all properties abutting the portion of the street, road, sidewalk or alley, ordered improved and the owners of such portion shall be determined by the conveyance records of the parish.
Acts 1952, No. 430, §3.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689.5. Award of contract

RS 33:3689.5 - Award of contract
The police jury shall meet in open session on the date and at the place and hour named in the notice calling for sealed bids for the construction of the said works, and proceed to open said bids and award the contract to the lowest bidder who can furnish satisfactory security, or it may reject any and all bids, and at any time within a period of thirty days from the date of the reception and opening of said bids award the contract for said works without further advertisement, provided, that no contract shall be so let for an amount greater than that specified in the lowest sealed bid received from a responsible bidder. Any contract awarded under the provisions of R.S. 33:3689.1-33:3689.17 shall be authorized by resolution of the police jury authorizing and empowering the president and the secretary thereof to execute said contract for, on behalf of, and in the name of the parish, and a copy of the said contract shall be set forth in full in said resolution and the resolution shall be published in full in one issue of the official journal of the parish, and a certified copy of said resolution shall be filed with the clerk of court of the parish and by him duly recorded in the mortgage records thereof. Provided, that the procedure set forth in this Section shall not apply in cases where any federal or state agency has made grants or contributions of material and labor in aid of the cost of constructing said improvements and the work is done under the supervision and control of such agency or agencies as provided in R.S. 33:3689.4, and also where the work is undertaken by the parish, the bid received for materials, equipment and supplies shall be opened and awarded or rejected as hereinabove provided.
Acts 1952, No. 430, §5.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689.6. Engineer's report; assessment of costs

RS 33:3689.6 - Engineer's report; assessment of costs
Any police jury upon the award of any contract or its determination to construct the improvements herein authorized, under the provisions of R.S. 33:3689.1-33:3689.17, shall forthwith require of the engineer of the parish in charge of the project a statement or report duly certified to and showing in detail the total cost of said improvements, including street intersections, engineer's and attorney's fees and other expenses incidental to the cost of said improvements, and the said engineer shall also show the amount thereof chargeable to each lot or parcel of real estate abutting said improvements in proportion that its frontage bears to all of the abutting lots or parcels of real estate to be improved and shall give a brief description of each parcel or lot of real estate so abutting with sufficient clearness to identify the same; provided, that in the parish of Jefferson or any municipality therein where any improvement is to be made upon more than one side of any lot or parcel of real estate, the total front footage of such lot chargeable hereunder shall be determined by taking the total front footage of said lot or parcel of real estate abutting improvements on all sides and dividing such total front footage by two, provided that the maximum allowable reduction in such cases shall be seventy-five feet.
Acts 1952, No. 430, §6. Amended by Acts 1969, No. 140, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689.8. Paving certificates

RS 33:3689.8 - Paving certificates
Any parish upon complying with the provisions of R.S. 33:3689.1-33:3689.17, shall have and is hereby authorized through its police jury as the governing authority thereof to issue, execute, negotiate, sell and deliver negotiable interest bearing coupon paving certificates of the parish in an amount not exceeding the total amount of the unpaid installments or deferred payments as provided for in the preceding Section, said paving certificates to bear interest at a rate of interest not exceeding six (6%) per centum per annum, payable annually, and to mature serially over a period not exceeding twenty years, but in no event shall said certificates extend over a longer period of time than that provided for by the ordinance levying the local or special assessments which may be paid in annual installments. Said paving certificates shall be of such form, date, denomination and payable in principal and interest at such time and place as the police jury may determine, and such certificates shall be secured by and payable in principal and interest by the irrevocable pledge and dedication of the funds derived from the levy and collection of the local or special assessments on the real property abutting said improvements payable in annual installments as provided for by R.S. 33:3689.1-33:3689.17 together with all interest on such assessments, and which funds shall be set aside in a separate fund and shall not be drawn upon for any purpose other than to pay the principal and interest of said paving certificates. The purchaser of any paving certificates issued under the provisions of R.S. 33:3689.1-33:3689.17 shall not be obligated to see to the proper application of any funds coming into possession of the police jury.
Acts 1952, No. 430, §8.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689.9. Additional assessments

RS 33:3689.9 - Additional assessments
In the event the local or special assessments originally levied are insufficient for any cause whatsoever to pay the principal and interest or the principal or interest in any one year on the said paving certificates outstanding at their respective maturity dates, then in that event the parish issuing such paving certificates under the provisions of R.S. 33:3689.1-33:3689.17, through its police jury, is hereby empowered, authorized and obligated by ordinance to levy and collect, at such time or times as may be necessary, an additional local or special assessment on each lot or parcel of real estate abutting the street, road, sidewalk or alley so improved sufficient in amount to pay in full the said principal and interest or the principal or interest of such paving certificates at their respective maturity dates. The amounts assessed in such ordinance or ordinances shall be due and collectible immediately on its passage and if not paid within thirty days from the date of its adoption and publication, the police jury shall proceed against the property for the collection of the amount of the additional local or special assessment so levied plus interest thereon and ten (10%) per cent additional for attorney's fees. A certified copy of each ordinance providing for the levy and collection of such additional local or special assessment shall be filed with the clerk of court of the parish within ten days from the date of its adoption, who shall forthwith record the same in the mortgage records of the parish and when so filed and recorded shall operate as a lien and privilege against all the real estate therein assessed and shall prime all other claims except taxes.
Acts 1952, No. 430, §9.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689.10. Execution and registration of certificates and interest coupons

RS 33:3689.10 - Execution and registration of certificates and interest coupons
The said paving certificates shall be signed by the president and by the secretary of the police jury for, on behalf of, and in the name of the parish and under the seal thereof. The interest coupons shall be signed with the facsimile signatures of the said officers and before delivery thereof, they shall be registered in the mortgage records of the parish affected as to the serial number or numbers, amount, rate of interest, dates due and street or streets, road or roads, alley or alleys or parts thereof improved. Each of the said certificates shall bear the following endorsement, viz:
"This certificate registered in the Mortgage Records of the Parish of __________, Louisiana, on this the _____ day of __________, 20___.
________________________
Clerk of Court and Ex-Officio
Recorder of Mortgages,
Parish of ____________, Louisiana"
Acts 1952, No. 430, §10.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689.11. Sale and delivery of certificates

RS 33:3689.11 - Sale and delivery of certificates
The police jury of the parish issuing such paving certificates may by resolution empower and authorize its president and its secretary to negotiate and deliver such paving certificates and collect the purchase price therefor and do any and all things necessary and incidental thereto, or authorize delivery to the contractor of all or any part thereof in payment of its contractual obligation covering such improvements. The funds derived from the sale of the said paving certificates shall be expended solely in payment of the costs of the improvements herein authorized and shall not be drawn upon for any other purpose whatsoever.
Acts 1952, No. 430, §11.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689.12. Negotiability of certificates; validity and incontestability

RS 33:3689.12 - Negotiability of certificates; validity and incontestability
Paving certificates issued hereunder shall have all the qualities of negotiable paper under the law merchant, and shall not be invalid for any irregularity or defect in the proceedings for their issuance, sale or delivery, and shall be incontestable in the hands of bona fide purchasers thereof for value.
Acts 1952, No. 430, §12.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689.13. Inspection and acceptance of work; payment

RS 33:3689.13 - Inspection and acceptance of work; payment
The police jury shall upon the completion of any contract awarded as provided for herein, provide for the final inspection of the work performed thereunder and the improvements made, and if the work be found to have been completed satisfactorily in accordance with said contract, as evidenced by a certificate of the engineer for the parish, said police jury shall by ordinance duly adopt, approve and accept said work and fulfill its obligations under the said contract by full payment therefor of any and all amounts and balances due the said contractor, including all retained percentages for payments previously made thereon on engineer's estimates and which percentages were retained pending the completion of said work.
Acts 1952, No. 430, §13.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689.14. Engineer; employment and duties; attorney

RS 33:3689.14 - Engineer; employment and duties; attorney
Said parishes are hereby authorized through their police juries to engage the services of an engineer and provide for his payment, which engineer shall prepare all plans and specifications as to grade, subgrade, drainage, manner and type of paving, surfacing, sidewalks, or other improvements, including the necessary curbing, guttering, aprons, headers and drains, providing that the police jury shall approve such plans and specifications by a proper resolution duly adopted. Such engineer so employed shall inspect the work as let in accordance with contracts hereunder and shall issue to the said contractor his estimates thereon from time to time as the said work progresses, which estimates may be paid by the parish either in full or by the retention of an amount not exceeding twenty (20%) per cent thereof as retained percentage. Upon final completion of the work the said engineer shall render a report to the police jury of the parish as to the completion of the work in a satisfactory manner, which report shall be duly certified to, and in addition thereto the said engineer shall do and perform any and all engineering duties required of him in R.S. 33:3689.1-33:3689.17. The police juries of the respective parishes are also hereby authorized to employ an attorney or firm of attorneys to handle all legal work in connection with such improvements herein authorized and provide for the payment of his or their fee.
Acts 1952, No. 430, §14.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689.15. Limit of indebtedness

RS 33:3689.15 - Limit of indebtedness
Paving certificates issued under the provisions of R.S. 33:3689.1-33:3689.17 shall not be included in computing the indebtedness of the parish for the purpose of determining any constitutional or statutory limitation of indebtedness.
Acts 1952, No. 430, §15.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689.16. Exemption of certificates from taxation; acceptability as security

RS 33:3689.16 - Exemption of certificates from taxation; acceptability as security
All paving certificates issued under the provisions of R.S. 33:3689.1-33:3689.17 shall be exempt from taxation. They shall be acceptable as security for any deposits of public funds.
Acts 1952, No. 430, §16.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689.17. Period within which to question validity of certificates

RS 33:3689.17 - Period within which to question validity of certificates
If the validity of any paving certificates issued under the provisions of R.S. 33:3689.1-33:3689.17 is not raised within thirty days from the date of publication of the resolution or ordinance issuing said paving certificates, the authority to issue said paving certificates, the legality thereof and of the local or special assessments necessary to pay the same shall be conclusively presumed and no court shall thereafter have authority to inquire into such matters.
Acts 1952, No. 430, §17.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689.18. Financing costs of improvements other than by sale of certificates

RS 33:3689.18 - Financing costs of improvements other than by sale of certificates
Any parish having available funds with which to finance the cost of said street improvements may utilize said funds for the purpose, without the necessity of issuing and selling paving certificates or other evidence of indebtedness, provided that the cost of such improvements to the abutting property owners is less than five dollars per front foot.
Added by Acts 1963, No. 102, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3689.19. Construction of Sections 3681 through 3689.18

RS 33:3689.19 - Construction of Sections 3681 through 3689.18
Sections 3681 through 3689.18 of Title 33 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes shall be construed to provide a method by which parishes may construct street improvements and levy special assessments to cover the cost thereof, which method shall be in addition to all other methods of making street improvements and levying special assessments to finance the cost thereof now or heretofore authorized by this Legislature.
Added by Acts 1963, No. 102, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3690.1. Jefferson Parish; blacktopping of streets

RS 33:3690.1 - Jefferson Parish; blacktopping of streets
In addition to the authority provided in R.S. 33:3689.1 through 3689.19, the parish of Jefferson, through its governing authority, shall have and is hereby vested with full power and authority to blacktop roads and streets or install culverts within the unincorporated areas of the parish and shall have full power and authority to levy and collect local or special assessments on the immovable property abutting said improvements to defray a portion of the cost of such improvements, all in the form and manner and subject to the limitations and restrictions as contained in this Subpart.
Acts 1962, No. 256, §1; Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 70, §1, eff. April 17, 2000.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3690.2. Petition; resolution of intention; conditions

RS 33:3690.2 - Petition; resolution of intention; conditions
Upon the written petition of not less than fifty percent of the property owners owning not less than fifty percent of the lineal frontage of immovable property abutting on any road or street in the unincorporated areas of Jefferson Parish, the Jefferson Parish Council may adopt a resolution giving notice of its intention to blacktop said road or street or install culverts thereon, provided that the following conditions are complied with:
(1) The road or street to be blacktopped has an average minimum width of at least eighteen feet.
(2) The road or street is at least one block in length.
(3) That water and drainage are available in the area, as determined by the Department of Public Works of Jefferson Parish.
(4) A deposit of at least fifty percent of the total cost of the improvements is made with the director of finance of Jefferson Parish, by cash or certified check.
(5) The number of abutting real estate owners and the property owned by them shall be determined by the conveyance records of Jefferson Parish, and the number of such owners and the property which they own shall be determined as of the date of presentation of the written petition to the governing authority of the parish.
(6) Those property owners who decide to pay their assessments in cash must pay cash in the amount of one hundred percent of the assessments levied against them.
Acts 1962, No. 256, §2; Acts 2000, No. 70, §1, eff. April 17, 2000.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3690.3. Notice and hearing

RS 33:3690.3 - Notice and hearing
If the governing authority of the parish determines to make the proposed improvements, it shall adopt a resolution giving notice of the intention to make such improvements and embody therein in a general way the improvements contemplated and the manner of payment therefor. Such notice shall be signed by the chairman of the Jefferson Parish Council, duly attested by the council clerk, and shall contain substantially all things set forth in said resolution, and shall set forth further that the Jefferson Parish Council will, in open session, on the date and at the time and place named, proceed to hear any and all objections to the proposed improvements and the manner of payment therefor, and after hearing and passing on such objections, proceed, if it so determines, to order such improvements constructed in the manner hereinafter provided. Such notice of intention shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the parish, the first publication to be made not less than fifteen days before the date fixed for the said hearing of objections to the proposed improvements.
Acts 1962, No. 256, §3; Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 70, §1, eff. April 17, 2000.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3690.4. Written objection by more than fifty percent of abutting real estate owners

RS 33:3690.4 - Written objection by more than fifty percent of abutting real estate owners
The Jefferson Parish Council shall not order the construction of said improvements in the event there is filed at the public hearing written objection to the proposed improvements signed by more than fifty percent of the abutting real estate owners owning more than fifty percent of the lineal frontage of real estate abutting on the road or street to be improved, the ownership to be determined as set forth in R.S. 33:3690.2(5).
Acts 1962, No. 256, §4; Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 70, §1, eff. April 17, 2000.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3690.5. Resolution of authorization

RS 33:3690.5 - Resolution of authorization
The Jefferson Parish Council, after having given due notice of intention in the manner provided in this Subpart and after having disposed of all objections to the contemplated improvements, in the event that not more than fifty percent of the abutting real estate owners in number and in lineal frontage abutting the improvements shall have objected to the improvements, may adopt a resolution authorizing the Department of Public Works of Jefferson Parish to blacktop the road or street in question or install culverts thereon.
Acts 1962, No. 256, §5; Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 70, §1, eff. April 17, 2000.