RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 220 (HB 529) 2015 Regular Session Miller
Existing law provides that taxes collected by the Lafourche Basin Levee District from
property located within St. Charles Parish located west of the Mississippi River, not less than
57% of the tax monies are to be expended for the purposes of levee construction, levee
maintenance, and other flood control and drainage works within St. Charles Parish. These
expenditures are to 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 50% of such expenditures.
New law retains existing law, but specifies that existing law shall not apply during any tax
year in which the Lafourche Basin Levee District maintains the St. Charles Parish West Bank
Hurricane Protection Levee System, as a whole or as each section is transferred to the
Lafourche Basin Levee District for maintenance, operation, and control, subject to any
amendments made by the state of La.
Effective Aug. 1, 2015.
(Amends R.S. 38:334(A))