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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 702
BY SENATOR MURRAY
MUNICIPALITIES. Provides relative to the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority. (gov
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AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 33:4720.55(D)(introductory paragraph) and (2) and 4720.56(20)2
and to enact R.S. 33:4720.56(21), relative to the New Orleans Redevelopment3
Authority; to provide relative to the membership of the governing board; to provide4
relative to the powers and duties of the authority; and to provide for related matters.5
Notice of intention to introduce this Act has been published.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. R.S. 33:4720.55(D)(introductory paragraph) and (2) and 4720.56(20) are8
hereby amended and reenacted and 33:4720.56(21) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 9
§4720.55. Creation of the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority by local option10
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D. Upon the certification of a resolution declaring the need for an authority12
to operate, as set forth in this Section, the mayor of the city of New Orleans shall13
appoint as commissioners of the authority with the advice and consent of the city14
council of the city of New Orleans, eleven twelve citizens who shall be qualified15
electors of the municipality as follows:16
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(2) Four Five additional commissioners shall be appointed from the city at1
large.2
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§4720.56. Authority4
The New Orleans Redevelopment Authority shall have all the authority and5
power necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and6
provisions of this Chapter, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing,7
the following authority which shall be in addition to others herein granted:8
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(20) To make decisions and conduct all activities to meet the triple10
bottom line development objectives of equity, economics, and environment.11
(21) To exercise all or any part or combination of powers granted to it in this12
Chapter.13
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Section 2. The additional commissioner appointed pursuant to R.S. 33:4720.55(D)15
as amended by this Act shall serve an initial term of three years.16
Section 3. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not17
signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature18
by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If19
vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become20
effective on the day following such approval.21
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by James Benton.
DIGEST
Present law authorizes the city of New Orleans, for the purposes of present law, to formulate
a workable program for community improvement and for utilizing appropriate private and
public resources to eliminate and prevent the development or spread of slums and urban
blight, to encourage needed rehabilitation, and to provide for the redevelopment of slum or
blighted areas or to undertake other feasible municipal activities as may be suitably
employed to achieve the objectives of such workable program.
Present law provides for the creation of the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority.
Provides that the authority, to the greatest extent it determines to be feasible in carrying out
the provisions of present law, shall afford maximum opportunity, consistent with the sound SB NO. 702
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needs of the city of New Orleans as a whole, to provide for the rehabilitation or
redevelopment of the community improvement area by private enterprise.
Proposed law retains present law.
Present law requires the mayor of the city of New Orleans to appoint as commissioners of
the authority, with the advice and consent of the city council of the city of New Orleans,
eleven citizens who shall be qualified electors of the municipality as follows:
(1)Seven commissioners shall be appointed, one from each councilmanic district of the
city and two from the city at large.
(2)Four additional commissioners shall be appointed from the city at large.
Requires members to serve five-year staggered terms.
Proposed law provides for an additional commissioner to be appointed from the city at large.
Provides that the additional commissioner shall serve an initial three-year term. Proposed
law otherwise retains membership of the authority.
Present law provides numerous powers and duties of the authority including but not limited
to the following:
(1)To undertake and carry out community improvement projects and related activities
in accordance with the city's comprehensive plan within its area of operation and to
make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient to the
exercise of its authority pursuant to proposed law; and to disseminate slum clearance
and community improvement information.
(2)To provide or to arrange or contract for the furnishing or repair by any person or
agency, public or private, of services, privileges, works, streets, roads, public
utilities, or other facilities for or in connection with a community improvement
project.
(3)To acquire real property in a community improvement area, demolish and remove
any structures on the property, and pay all costs related to the acquisition,
demolition, or removal, including any administrative or relocation expenses.
(4)To prepare plans for and assist in the relocation of persons (including individuals,
families, business concerns, nonprofit organizations, and others) displaced from a
community improvement area and to make relocation payments to or with respect
to such persons for moving and readjustment expenses and losses of property for
which reimbursement or compensation is not otherwise made.
Proposed law retains present law and additionally authorizes the authority to make decisions
and conduct all activities to meet the triple bottom line development objectives of equity,
economics, and environment.
Effective upon signature of governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Amends R.S. 33:4720.55(D)(intro para) and (2) and 4720.56(20); adds R.S.
33:4720.56(21))