2012 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 38 — Public contracts, works and improvements
RS 38:334 — Revenue utilization; lafourche basin levee district

§334. Revenue utilization; Lafourche Basin Levee District

A. Of all the taxes collected by the Lafourche Basin Levee District from property located within St. Charles Parish located west of the Mississippi River, not less than fifty-seven percent of the tax monies shall be expended for the purposes of levee construction, levee maintenance, and other flood control and drainage works within that parish. These expenditures shall be in cash or in-kind services as determined by the parish governing body. When such funds are expended within St. Charles Parish, in-kind services shall not exceed fifty percent of such expenditures. Expenditures shall be certified as received by the parish's governing body at the end of each fiscal year.

B. No provision of this Part or of any other law shall be construed so as to prohibit the Lafourche Basin Levee District from the use of public funds to engage in general drainage work not incidental to the construction and maintenance of levees in the jurisdictional boundaries of the Lafourche Basin Levee District.

Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985; Acts 1992, No. 791, §1; Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 13, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1401, §1; Acts 2007, No. 134, §1, eff. June 25, 2007; Acts 2009, No. 346, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2010.