Louisiana § RS 33:1332 - Administration of agreements; joint commission

§ RS 33:1332. Administration of agreements; joint commission

A.  Any parishes or municipalities concluding an agreement under the provisions of this Part may create by resolutions duly adopted by the governing bodies thereof a joint commission as an agency and instrumentality of such parishes or municipalities to administer the terms of such agreement.

B.(1)  The members of such commission shall be appointed by the respective participating parishes or municipalities, but no member of a parish governing authority or employee thereof shall serve as a member of a joint commission that has as its function the operation and maintenance of a causeway and its related roadways, created by the parish by agreement with one or more other parishes.

(2)  Members of the joint commission shall receive such compensation for services performed by virtue of such appointment as shall be provided in such agreement, but any member of such commission who is also an officer or employee of a parish or municipality concluding such agreement shall also receive the compensation to which he is otherwise entitled as such officer or employee; provided, however, that any member of a joint commission, created by agreement of two or more parishes, that has as its function the operation and maintenance of a causeway and its related roadways who is also an officer or employee of a parish concluding such agreement shall not serve as a member of such joint commission.

C.(1)  Each such commission shall be a body corporate under such corporate name and style as shall be provided in such agreement, shall have power to sue and be sued and shall continue in existence until all bonds, including refunding bonds, issued by such commission or any of such parishes or municipalities pursuant to such agreements have been finally paid and discharged.

(2)  Each such commission shall have such powers relative to the construction, acquisition, improvement, operation, and management of any public project or improvement, as shall be provided in such agreement, and shall have power, if provided in such agreement to issue in its corporate name, but for and on behalf of such parishes or municipalities, any bonds to finance the cost of the construction or acquisition or improvement of such public projects or improvements, which bonds may be the joint obligation, several obligations, or joint and several obligations of such parishes or municipalities.

D.  No such agreement shall have the effect of providing for a donation, in whole or in part, of the public funds or services of one parish or municipality for the benefit of another.

Amended by Acts 1954, No. 665, §4; Acts 1988, No. 363, §1, eff. July 8, 1988.