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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 524
BY SENATOR HEITMEIER
MUNICIPALITIES. Provides relative to annexation of public roads by a municipality.
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AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 33:180(B), relative to annexation of territory owned by a public2
body; to provide for the authority to exclude certain territory from annexation; and3
to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 33:180(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 6
ยง180. Ordinance to annex territory owned by a public body7
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B. No municipality may annex the paved portion of a public road without9
including in such annexation all property adjacent to at least one side of the road, the10
paved portion of which is included in the annexation. At the discretion of the11
department of transportation and development, the paved portion of an12
interstate highway right of way may be excluded from the annexation without13
the annexation being considered as not contiguous.14
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Michael Bell.
DIGEST
Heitmeier (SB 524)
Present law provides that no municipality may annex the paved portion of a public road
without including in such annexation all property adjacent to at least one side of the road,
the paved portion of which is included in the annexation.
Proposed law retains present law and adds the department of transportation and development
has the option of excluding from the annexation without the annexation being considered not
contiguous, the paved portion of interstate highway right of way.
Effective August 1, 2012.
(Amends R.S. 33:108(B))