Acceptance of and improvements in unapproved streets

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RS 140.21 - Acceptance of and improvements in unapproved streets

From and after the time when the platting jurisdiction of the planning commission shall have attached by virtue of the adoption of a master plan, in whole or in part, as provided in R.S. 33:140.16, the municipality or parish or other public body shall not accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave, or light any street within the area covered by the adopted plan, which conflicts with the plan unless such street shall have been accepted or opened as, or shall have otherwise received the legal status of, a public street prior to such attachment of the commission's platting jurisdiction, or unless such street corresponds in its location and lines with a street shown on a subdivision plat approved by such commission or on a street plat made by and adopted by such commission; provided, however, that the City Council, or, in the case of a street outside of the municipality, the Police Jury may locate and construct or may accept any other street if the ordinance or other measure for such location and construction or for such acceptance be first submitted to such commission for its approval, and, if disapproved by the commission, be passed by not less than two-thirds of the entire membership of the City Council or Police Jury, as appropriate; and a street approved by the commission upon such submission, or constructed or accepted by such two-thirds vote after disapproval by the commission, shall have the status of an approved street as fully as though it has been originally shown on a subdivision plat approved by the commission or on a plat made and adopted by the commission.

NOTE: §140.21 as amended by Acts 2020, No. 294, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.

RS 140.21 - Establishment of official map

After the commission has recommended and the city council has adopted a master plan which includes at least a major street plan, or the commission has progressed in its master planning to the state of the making and recommending of a major street plan, and shall have certified a copy of such major street plan to the city council, then the city council may establish an official map of the municipality. The official map shall show the location of the streets theretofore existing and established by law as public streets. Such official map may also show the location of the lines of streets on plats of subdivisions which have been approved by the commission. The city council shall certify the fact of the establishment of the official map to the clerk of court of Caddo Parish.

Acts 1962, No. 52, §21; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.


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