Part I - GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 38:1601 - Definitions; representation
Section 38:1601.1 - Applicability of Chapter
Section 38:1602 - Parishes authorized to create drainage districts
Section 38:1603 - Creation of districts embracing lands in more than one parish
Section 38:1604 - Creation of district on petition of property owners; procedure to be followed
Section 38:1605 - Approval of Department of Public Works; duties of department
Section 38:1606 - Name of district
Section 38:1607 - Board of commissioners; qualifications; compensation and expenses
Section 38:1608 - Appointment and terms of commissioners
Section 38:1609 - Removal of commissioners; appointment of successors
Section 38:1610 - Oath of commissioners
Section 38:1611 - Officers of board; seal; depository; payment of funds
Section 38:1612 - Record of proceedings of board
Section 38:1613 - Domicile of district; place of suit; place of meetings
Section 38:1614 - Corporate status and powers of district
Section 38:1615 - Record of proceedings of board
Section 38:1616 - Recordation of certified copies of ordinances creating districts; publication
Section 38:1617 - Contest of legality of district
Section 38:1618 - Sub-drainage districts
Section 38:1619 - Acreage tax
Section 38:1620 - Attorneys
Section 38:1621 - Engineers
Section 38:1622 - Petitions to proceed with work
Section 38:1623 - Appointment and duties of board of appraisers
Section 38:1624 - Notice of appointment and meeting of appraisers; oath; organization
Section 38:1625 - Proceedings of appraisers
Section 38:1626 - Report of findings of appraisers; fees
Section 38:1627 - Petition for confirmation of report and expropriation of property; notice and citation
Section 38:1628 - Hearing and determination of expropriation suits; approval of report of board of appraisers; appeal
Section 38:1629 - Rejection of reclamation plan; submission of new or amended plan
Section 38:1630 - Board of commissioners to carry out reclamation plan; letting contracts
Section 38:1631 - Tax levy for cost of work
Section 38:1632 - Tax lien on property; certificate and tables; record
Section 38:1633 - Levy of maintenance tax
Section 38:1634 - Determination of annual installment; levy of maintenance tax; certificate and table
Section 38:1635 - Collection and accounting for taxes
Section 38:1636 - Non-liability of state and its subdivisions for taxes
Section 38:1637 - Sale of land for delinquent taxes
Section 38:1638 - Works and improvements authorized
Section 38:1639 - Expropriation of land
Section 38:1640 - Payment for property expropriated; assessment of portion not taken
Section 38:1641 - Bridges; ditch or lateral across highway; removal of bridge, flume or other work
Section 38:1642 - Raising of embankments to conform to district levee
Section 38:1643 - Exemption of bonds from taxation
Section 38:1644 - Effect of change of ownership of land
Section 38:1645 - Change of venue; recusation of judge
Section 38:1646 - Injunction or other writ granted only on rule nisi
Section 38:1647 - Compensation and expenses of officers and employees; removal of employees
Section 38:1648 - Change of plan of reclamation
Section 38:1649 - Enlargement of boundaries of district
Section 38:1650 - Appointment of appraisers upon change of boundaries or plan
Section 38:1651 - Benefits, taxes, bonds and reclamation of sub-district
Section 38:1652 - Issuance of bonds; form and terms
Section 38:1653 - Sale of bonds
Section 38:1654 - Payment of principal and interest of bonds
Section 38:1655 - Additional levy for payment of principal and interest
Section 38:1656 - Limit of tax levy
Section 38:1657 - Bond of secretary-treasurer
Section 38:1658 - Use of funds derived from the sale of bonds
Section 38:1659 - Readjustment of assessment of benefits
Section 38:1660 - Consolidation of adjacent districts
Section 38:1661 - New or amended reclamation plans; additional assessments and taxes
Section 38:1662 - Connection of ditches; drainage systems, and watercourses with works and improvements of district
Section 38:1663 - Advance payment of tax in full
Section 38:1664 - Reorganization of existing districts permitted
Section 38:1665 - Reorganization procedure
Section 38:1666 - Powers and duties of boards of commissioners of reorganized districts
Section 38:1667 - Obligations of former district assumed by reorganized districts
Section 38:1668 - Chief engineer of reorganized district
Section 38:1669 - Property of pre-existing district transferred; funding and refunding of pre-existing indebtedness
Section 38:1670 - Issuance of funding or refunding bonds
Section 38:1671 - Form and terms of bonds; denominations
Section 38:1672 - Sale or exchange of bonds; use of proceeds
Section 38:1673 - Payment and retirement of bonds
Section 38:1674 - Waiver of procedural rights; recordation of consent
Section 38:1674.1 - Construction of drainage projects; financing
Section 38:1674.2 - Notice of intention; hearing; ordering improvements
Section 38:1674.3 - Plans and specifications; advertisement for bids
Section 38:1674.4 - Opening of bids; award of contract
Section 38:1674.5 - Report of costs; assessments
Section 38:1674.6 - Issuance of Certificates
Section 38:1674.7 - Signature on certificates and coupons; form of endorsement
Section 38:1674.8 - Sale of certificates; disposition of funds
Section 38:1674.9 - Nature of certificates
Section 38:1674.10 - Contesting validity
Section 38:1674.11 - Arrangements under Local Services Law
Section 38:1674.12 - Parishes adjoining Lake Maurepas or Lake Pontchartrain; notice of intention; hearing; ordering improvements
Section 38:1674.13 - Parishes adjoining Lake Maurepas or Lake Pontchartrain; report of costs; assessments
Section 38:1674.14 - Sunset Drainage District of St. Charles Parish; acreage tax
Section 38:1674.15 - St. Tammany Parish Drainage District No. 2; creation of assessment areas; maintenance tax assessment
Section 38:1674.16 - St. Tammany Parish Drainage District No. 4
Section 38:1674.16.1 - Certain drainage districts
Section 38:1675 - Application of Part
Section 38:1676 - Tax sale properties; confirmation of title
Section 38:1677 - Police juries as governing authority
Section 38:1678 - Authorization to incur debt; issue bonds and levy taxes
Section 38:1679 - Dividing districts lying in two or more parishes
Section 38:1680 - St. Mary Parish; powers of districts; bonds; taxes
Section 38:1680.1 - St. Mary Parish; powers of parish, drainage districts, and any incorporated municipality in the parish to levy taxes and charges for drainage facilities
Section 38:1680.2 - Town of Berwick; authority to levy taxes, fees, and charges for drainage facilities, systems, and networks
Section 38:1681 - Assumption Parish; powers of districts; bonds; taxes