La. Stat. tit. 38 § 334

Current with changes from the 2024 legislative session effective on or before 7/1/2024, from Acts 2,3, 6-535, and 580-647
Section 38:334 - [Effective 8/1/2024] Revenue utilization; Lafourche Basin Conservation Levee and Drainage District
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(1) Of all the taxes collected by the Lafourche Basin Conservation Levee and Drainage 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.
(2) The provisions of Paragraph (1) of this Subsection shall not apply during any tax year in which the Lafourche Basin Conservation Levee and Drainage District maintains the St. Charles Parish West Bank Hurricane Protection Levee system, including the West Bank and general vicinity, Western Tie-In, Davis Pond Freshwater Diversion Levee, Willowridge Levee, Ellington Levee, Magnolia Ridge Levee, and Sunset Drainage District Levee, as a whole or as each section is transferred to the Lafourche Basin Conservation Levee and Drainage District for maintenance, operation, and control, subject to any amendments made by the state of Louisiana.
B. No provision of this Part or of any other law shall be construed so as to prohibit the Lafourche Basin Conservation Levee and Drainage 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 Conservation Levee and Drainage District.

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La. R.S. § 38:334

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; Acts 2015, No. 220, §1.
Amended by Acts 2024, No. 177,s. 1, eff. 8/1/2024.
Amended by Acts 2015, No. 220,s. 1, eff. 8/1/2015.
Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. 7/22/1985; Acts 1992, No. 791, §1; Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 13, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1401, §1; Acts 2007, No. 134, §1, eff. 6/25/2007; Acts 2009, No. 346, §1, eff. 1/1/2010.
This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.