Election necessary

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RS 662 - Election necessary

A. No debt of any road district, subroad district, consolidated road district, drainage district, irrigation district, levee district, waterworks district, road lighting district, fire protection district, airport district, hospital service district, recreation district, sewerage district created by the governing authority of a parish, or school district, shall be assumed until the step has been authorized by a vote of a majority in number and amount of the property taxpayers of the parish qualified to vote under the constitution and the laws of this state who vote at an election held for that purpose.

B. The governing authority of any parish may call a special election and submit to the qualified taxpaying voters the question of assuming the debt of any one or more of the above districts and the parish school board may also submit to the qualified taxpaying voters the question of assuming the debt of any one or more school districts in the same manner. The governing authority shall call a special election for that purpose when requested so to do by a petition in writing of one-fourth of the property taxpayers eligible to vote at the election.

C. If any road district, subroad district, consolidated road district, drainage district, irrigation district, levee district, waterworks district, road lighting district, fire protection district, airport district, hospital service district, recreation district, sewerage district created by the governing authority of a parish, or school district, the debt of which is to be assumed, is composed of territory located in more than one parish, a parish may assume only that proportion of the debt of the district which bears against that territory wholly within the parish.

NOTE: §662 as repealed by Acts 2018, No. 569, eff. July 1, 2021.

RS 662 - Repealed by Acts 2018, No. 569, §2, eff. July 1, 2021.

Amended by Acts 1962, No. 111, §2; Acts 2018, No. 569, §2, eff. July 1, 2021.


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