CHAPTER 7. STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
PART I. STREET IMPROVEMENTS
SUBPART A. MUNICIPAL STREET IMPROVEMENTS
AT INSTANCE OF GOVERNING AUTHORITY
§3301. Street improvements authorized
Municipalities, including those operating under a home rule or special legislative charter, may construct, pave, surface, resurface with concrete, cement, asphalt, brick, gravel, crushed stone, shell, or any paving material, and repair or otherwise improve streets, roads, sidewalks, and alleys, together with the necessary ditching, curbing, guttering, aprons, drains, and headers within their corporate limits, including such streets, alleys or other public ways which may be entirely within the limits or boundaries of such municipality, but along the boundary or limit thereof in such manner that abutting property on one side of such street or other public way is situated wholly or partly outside of such municipality, and may levy and collect local or special assessments on the real property abutting the improvements, including such property as may be located outside the municipal limits but abutting a street or other public way located within the municipal limits, sufficient in amount to defray the total cost of the works, including street intersections, in the form and manner and subject to the limitations and restrictions as follows provided, however, that all such work shall be done under the provisions of R.S. 38:2211.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 192, §1; Acts 1975, No. 46, §1, eff. June 23, 1975.