§645. Disposition of collections
A. All taxes levied in this Part shall be collected monthly by the secretary and shall
be paid by him into the state treasury immediately upon receipt. When so paid, all of the
severance taxes collected on natural resources, severed from soil or water, including salt
content in brine, not otherwise allocated by the Constitution of Louisiana, shall be credited
to the state treasury.
B.(1) Severance taxes shall be credited by the treasurer for allocation to the
governing authority of the parish within which severance or production occurs as provided
in Article VII, Section 4 of the Constitution of Louisiana as follows:
(a) One-third of the sulphur severance tax.
(b) One-third of the lignite severance tax.
(c) One-fifth of the severance tax on all natural resources other than sulphur, lignite,
or timber.
(d) Three-fourths of the timber severance tax.
(2) The allocated amounts shall not exceed the limits set forth in Article VII, Section
4 of the Constitution of Louisiana. When these limits have been reached, there shall be no
further allocation, and all additional collections for the year shall be credited in full to the
state treasury except as provided in R.S. 30:88.1.
C. The portion of timber severance tax allocated to the governing authority of
Rapides Parish in accordance with the provisions enumerated in Subsection B of this Section
shall be expended for road and bridge repair within that parish. All such appropriations and
expenditures shall be prepared in accordance with the Louisiana Local Government Budget
Act, R.S. 39:1301-1316.
Acts 1952, No. 128, §1; Acts 1958, Ex.Sess., No. 2, §6; Acts 1973, Ex.Sess., No. 7,
§1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974; Acts 1975, No. 317, §1, eff. July 1, 1975; Acts 1979, No. 577, §3; Acts
1979, No. 791, §3, eff. July 18, 1979; Acts 1983, No. 604, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984; Acts 1983,
No. 383, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 1983; Acts 1984, No. 880, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 1984; Acts 1987, No.
765, §2; Acts 1990, No. 617, §1, eff. July 19, 1990; Acts 1997, No. 1126, §1, eff. July 1,
1997; Acts 2016, No. 583, §2, eff. June 17, 2016; Acts 2025, No. 373, §1.