2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 33 — Municipalities and parishes
RS 33:3744 — Compulsory street duty or street tax
§3744. Compulsory street duty or street tax
The municipal authorities of incorporated villages and towns may require all able-bodied male persons, between the ages of eighteen and fifty-five years, residing within the corporate limits of the municipality, to work the streets, under the supervision of the street commissioner, when summoned by him so to do, not exceeding eight days in any one year. Any person may relieve himself from such compulsory street duty by paying a street tax in lieu thereof, the amount of which shall be fixed by the ordinance requiring the performance of the street duty and shall not exceed four dollars per annum. All sums paid into the treasury of any municipality from this source shall be expended upon the public streets. The municipality may provide for the punishment by fine or imprisonment, or both, of all persons who fail or refuse to perform this street duty or pay the street tax in lieu thereof.
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