2014 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 33 - Municipalities and Parishes
RS 33:178 - Ordinance defining territory excluded or included and description of boundary as changed required to be filed with clerk of district court

§178. Ordinance defining territory excluded or included and description of boundary as changed required to be filed with clerk of district court

A. Where the boundaries of a municipality have been enlarged or contracted, the ordinance with reference thereto must define with certainty and precision the territory which is proposed to be included in or excluded from the corporate limits, as the case may be. The ordinance need not contain a description of the entire boundary of the municipality as changed, but, within ten days after the adoption of the ordinance, a description of the entire boundary of the municipality as changed shall be filed by the clerk of the municipality with the clerk of the district court of the parish in which the municipality is located. Such description so filed shall become the official boundary of the municipality on the effective date of the ordinance.

B. Whenever the boundaries of the city of Shreveport have been enlarged or contracted, a description of the entire boundary of the municipality as changed shall be filed as provided for in Subsection A of this Section with the clerk of the district court of Caddo Parish, and the description filed in Caddo Parish shall become the official boundary of the city on the effective date of the ordinance. Whenever any of the territory included or excluded by a change in the boundaries of the city of Shreveport is located in Bossier Parish, the description shall also be filed with the clerk of the district court of Bossier Parish.

Amended by Acts 1964, No. 499, §1; Acts 1978, No. 304, §1; Acts 1985, No. 411, §1.