2018 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements
RS 38:3309 - Authority to levy
§3309. Authority to levy
For the purpose of providing revenue to carry out the objects contemplated by this Chapter, the board of commissioners may levy on all property in the district, or on all property within the Comite River Diversion Canal Impact Area, subject to taxation for drainage purposes a district drainage tax not to exceed three mills on the dollar of its assessed valuation, as provided by Article VI, Section 19 of the Constitution of Louisiana. The tax shall not be levied unless the proposition to levy the tax is approved by a majority of the electors of the district, or by a majority of the electors of the Comite River Diversion Canal Impact Area if limited to such area, who vote on the proposition. Furthermore, such tax shall be levied only in those parishes in which a majority of the electors of the parish, which are within the district, voting in an election approve such proposition, and such proposition on the ballot provides that the ad valorem tax is to be levied only in said parishes.
HCR NO. 1, 1989 R.S.; Acts 1989, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 1, §1, eff. July 14, 1989; Acts 1999, No. 1045, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
