Louisiana § RS 38:325 - Scope of activities
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§ RS 38:325. Scope of activities
A. Levee boards shall engage in any activities related directly to:
(1) Flood protection.
(2) Construction and maintenance of levees.
(3) Construction of recreational facilities which are located on or immediately adjacent to levees, except the Orleans Levee District shall not be limited to the construction of recreational facilities located on or immediately adjacent to levees.
(4) Maintaining, updating, renovating, or modernizing existing recreational and other facilities owned by the district.
(5) Cooperative activities with other public bodies for public purposes.
B. Levee and drainage boards, in addition to those activities provided for levee boards, shall engage in any activities related directly to drainage.
C.(1) The contents of this Chapter notwithstanding, nothing shall preclude the construction of improvements and facilities, public or private, within an airport area to provide activities, businesses, and additionally any other revenue-generating functions which can be dedicated to public use and self-sufficiency of the enterprise as an entity.
(2) However, nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to in any way limit, restrict, inhibit, or alter the full and exclusive right, jurisdiction, power, and authority of the Orleans Levee District as granted in R.S. 38:307, 335, and 336 or of the Lafourche Basin Conservation Levee and Drainage District as granted in R.S. 38:334.
(3) Nothing contained herein shall be construed to limit, alter, or repeal the requirement that certain lands under the jurisdiction of the Orleans Levee District be utilized for public parks, playgrounds, and beach purposes.
(4) Nothing contained in this Chapter shall be construed to limit or prohibit the construction with federal matching funds of recreational facilities which are part of a federally approved flood control program situated south from Donaldsonville to the Gulf of Mexico within the Lafourche Basin Conservation Levee and Drainage District.
Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985; Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 13, §1; Acts 2004, No. 310, §1, eff. June 18, 2004; Acts 2024, No. 177, §1.
Source: official Louisiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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