§334. Revenue utilization; Lafourche Basin Conservation Levee and Drainage District
A.(1) Of all of the taxes collected by the Lafourche Basin Conservation Levee and
Drainage District from property located within St. Charles Parish located west of the
Mississippi River, not less than fifty-seven percent of the tax monies shall be expended for
the purposes of levee construction, levee maintenance, and other flood control and drainage
works within that parish. These expenditures shall be in cash or in-kind services as
determined by the parish governing body. When such funds are expended within St. Charles
Parish, in-kind services shall not exceed fifty percent of such expenditures. Expenditures
shall be certified as received by the parish's governing body at the end of each fiscal year.
(2) The provisions of Paragraph (1) of this Subsection shall not apply during any tax
year in which the Lafourche Basin Conservation Levee and Drainage District maintains the
St. Charles Parish West Bank Hurricane Protection Levee system, including the West Bank
and general vicinity, Western Tie-In, Davis Pond Freshwater Diversion Levee, Willowridge
Levee, Ellington Levee, Magnolia Ridge Levee, and Sunset Drainage District Levee, as a
whole or as each section is transferred to the Lafourche Basin Conservation Levee and
Drainage District for maintenance, operation, and control, subject to any amendments made
by the state of Louisiana.
B. No provision of this Part or of any other law shall be construed so as to prohibit
the Lafourche Basin Conservation Levee and Drainage District from the use of public funds
to engage in general drainage work not incidental to the construction and maintenance of
levees in the jurisdictional boundaries of the Lafourche Basin Conservation Levee and
Drainage District.
Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985; Acts 1992, No. 791, §1; Acts 1996, 1st
Ex. Sess., No. 13, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1401, §1; Acts 2007, No. 134, §1, eff. June 25, 2007;
Acts 2009, No. 346, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2010; Acts 2015, No. 220, §1; Acts 2024, No. 177, §1.