2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 17:3396 — Purpose

PART X.  STIMULUS TO ECONOMIC AND

EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SUBPART A.  RESEARCH PARK CORPORATION

§3396.  Purpose

The Louisiana Legislature recognizes that economic development can be fostered by the encouragement of advanced technologies and better employment opportunities and that Louisiana must promote research and economic development opportunities through the encouragement of high technology.  The legislature therefor authorizes the establishment of the Research Park Corporation as a public, nonprofit corporation authorized to create, develop, construct, operate, manage, and finance a research and development park in cooperation with the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, the Board of Supervisors of Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, and the governing authority of the appropriate municipality or parish.

Acts 1992, No. 882, §1; Acts 1995, No. 912, §2, eff. June 28, 1995.