RS 1247.1 - Powers of the governing authority of the parish of Jefferson; ambulance service district
A. The governing authority for the parish of Jefferson is authorized and empowered, upon its own initiative, to form and create one or more ambulance service districts within the parish of Jefferson. The governing authority for the parish of Jefferson is further authorized to alter the boundaries of any ambulance service district, provided that no such boundary change shall cause an impairment of the obligations of any contract of the ambulance service district. Any ambulance service district so created shall include all or part of the territory in the parish, provided that any incorporated municipality included within the boundaries of the district is included in its entirety. However, before an incorporated municipality may be included within the territory of the ambulance service district, the governing authority of the municipality shall first concur by proper resolution in its inclusion and in the boundaries to be fixed for the district.
B. Notice of intention to create an ambulance service district shall be ordered by resolution or ordinance of the parish governing authority, concurred in by the governing authority of any municipality to be included in the district. The resolution shall state the boundaries proposed for the ambulance service district. The notice shall set forth the boundaries and shall state that the parish governing authority will, in open session, on a date and at an hour and place named, proceed to create the proposed district. This notice shall be published once a week for two successive weeks, the first publication being not less than fifteen days before the date fixed for the hearing, in a newspaper published in the parish, or, if there be none, in a newspaper having general circulation in the parish.
C. At the place and time specified in the notice provided for in Subsection B of this Section, the governing authority of the parish shall hear all objections which may be interposed to the boundaries of the district and to the inclusion of the property proposed to be included in the district. It may adjourn the hearing from time to time. At this hearing the parish governing authority may change the boundaries of the proposed district by excluding therefrom the lands of persons objecting or by including therein the lands of persons petitioning to be included therein. After disposing of all objections, the parish governing authority shall, if it decides to create the district, adopt a resolution or ordinance fixing the boundaries of the district and giving it a numerical designation and name. However, as provided in Subsection A, the governing authority of any municipal corporation which is included in the district must, by resolution adopted after the boundaries of the district are fixed, concur in the fixing of the boundaries before the action of the parish governing authority becomes final. The decision of the parish governing authority, so concurred in by any municipality as provided, is final and conclusive and notice of the formation of the district shall be given immediately by one publication in the newspaper in which the original notice of hearing was published.
Added by Acts 1976, No. 113, §1.