Establishment of official map

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RS 140.24 - Establishment of official map

When the City Council and the Police Jury have adopted a master plan which includes at least a major street plan, or the Planning 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 and one to the Police Jury, then the City Council and the Police Jury may establish an official map of the municipality, in the case of the City Council, and that part of Caddo Parish within the area included within the adopted plan but outside the City of Shreveport, in the case of the Police Jury. 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 shall have been approved by the planning commission. The City Council and the Police Jury shall certify the fact of the establishment of the official map to the Clerk of Court and Recorder of Caddo Parish.

NOTE: §140.24 as amended by Acts 2020, No. 294, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.

RS 140.24 - Municipal improvements in streets; buildings not on mapped streets

A. Except in streets existing and established by law as public streets at the date of the establishment of the official map, no public water facilities, sewer, or other public utilities or improvements shall be constructed after such date in any street until such street is duly placed on the official map.

B. The city council may provide by ordinance that no permit for the erection of any building shall be issued unless a street giving access to such proposed building existed and was established by law as a public street at the time of the establishment of the official map or shall have been duly placed on the official map in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 33:140.21 and 140.22; provided, however, that such ordinance shall contain a provision whereby the applicant for such permit may appeal to the board of appeals, hearing upon which appeal and notice of the time and place of which shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality, and such board shall have the authority to authorize such a permit, subject to such conditions as the board may impose, where the circumstances of the case do not require the proposed building to be related to the existing streets or to streets as shown on the official map and where the permit would not tend to distort or increase the difficulty of carrying out the official map of the master plan of the municipality.

Acts 1962, No. 52, §24; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.


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