2016 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 34 - Navigation and Shipping
RS 34:3500 - Protection of deepwater ports and pre-existing offshore terminals

LA Rev Stat § 34:3500 (2016) What's This?

§3500. Protection of deepwater ports and pre-existing offshore terminals

A. To prevent impairment of the bonds of the seven deepwater ports as defined in Article VI, Section 43 of the Constitution of Louisiana, other non-deepwater ports, harbors, and related authorities, and the deepwater terminal facility of the offshore terminal authority, and to recognize the existing authority of and functions performed by the established ports and harbors of Louisiana, it is hereby recognized that the function, power and authority of the various existing port authorities established pursuant to Article 14, Section 31 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1921, and Article VI, Section 43 of the Constitution of Louisiana, the offshore terminal authority, and other non-deepwater ports, harbors, and related authorities established by specific constitutional provision or by state law are not to be diminished by the jurisdiction and powers exercised by the authority except as provided in this Chapter.

B. The authority may enter into intergovernmental contract agreements with existing port authorities, individually, with the offshore terminal authority, or with any other parish, city, municipality, or subdivision of the state, and may engage jointly in the exercise of any power or the making of any improvements which each of the participating authorities may exercise or undertake individually under any provision of general or special law.

Acts 2008, No. 699, §1, eff. July 1, 2008.

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