The board of the district may utilize all powers and authority heretofore granted it to locate, construct, maintain, and protect a realignment of that portion of the Red River located in an area composed of Sections 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, and 23, Township 20 North, Range 14 West, and Sections 34 and 35, Township 21 North, Range 14 West, in Bossier and Caddo Parishes, Louisiana, and, in furtherance thereof, may additionally cause property located within the area described and outside the limits of any other levee district to be appropriated, expropriated, or otherwise acquired in the same manner and to the same extent as if the property were located wholly within the Caddo Levee District.
La. R.S. § 38:341