§302. Purpose

            This Chapter is enacted for the purpose of facilitating the collection and use of private-sector-originated supplementary funds to market and promote Jefferson Parish as a traveler destination and to provide for increased economic activity within its traveler economy, including increased number of conventions, meetings, visitors, hotel occupancy, food, beverage, and other retail sales, tourism, including cultural and family tourism, job creation and other economic development and related purposes through optional, self-generated, private-sector hotel self-assessment program.

            Acts 2015, No. 265, §1.