2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 17:1970.23 — New orleans center for creative arts/riverfront; creation; location; governance; relationship with the orleans parish school board

§1970.23.  New Orleans Center for Creative Arts/Riverfront; creation; location; governance; relationship with the Orleans Parish School Board

A.  There is hereby created the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts/Riverfront which shall be a state center primarily for the training of high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors operated in a facility owned by the state which was designed and built to house a program of professional quality training, coaching, and performing for students who aspire to be artists, performers, and arts technicians which is located on land leased to the state by the Orleans Parish School Board for such a purpose.  The center shall be operated primarily as a regional facility for the enrollment of qualified students from the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Terrebonne.  The center shall begin operation as a state center as provided in this Part beginning July 1, 2000.  The center shall be an agency of state government in the state Department of Education as provided in R.S. 36:801.1 and shall be, except as otherwise provided in this Part, independent of the control of the state superintendent and of all local and state education boards, except its board of directors.

B.  The center shall be governed and managed by a board of directors the membership of which and the powers and duties of which shall be as provided in this Part.

Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 60, §2, eff. July 1, 2000.