RS 345 - Certain levee boards; ad valorem tax expenditures; Parish Transportation Fund expenditures
A. This Section shall apply to the Fifth Louisiana Levee District.
B. The legislature may appropriate one million dollars in Fiscal Year 1997-1998 to such a levee district as provided for in Subsection A of this Section.
C. The funds designated by this Section shall be retained in a separate account of the levee district to be expended solely for the purposes of levee construction, levee maintenance, and other flood control works necessary to help alleviate flooding within the district.
D.(1) Any levee board of a levee district as provided for in this Section shall adopt a flood prevention plan which shall include reconstruction of the levee in conjunction with the United States Corps of Engineers and which shall require approval of the board for any expenditures of monies herein dedicated to flood control.
(2) The flood prevention plan shall list all projects to be undertaken during each fiscal year which shall be based on anticipated revenues.
(3) The board shall undertake a continuing study of the flood control needs of the district and shall provide a list of projects which may be reasonably anticipated to be undertaken in the following two years.
Acts 1997, No. 736, §1; Acts 2011, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 5, §1.