DIGEST
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or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 581 Original 2019 Regular Session Garofalo
Abstract: Requires payment for flood control or flood protection projects that encompass multiple
levee districts be proportionate to the value of the property protected by the flood control or
flood protection project within each levee district. Requires payment for a drainage project
under the jurisdiction of multiple levee districts be proportionate to the value of the property
protected by the drainage protection project within each levee district.
Proposed law requires payment of the joint costs of management, planning, design, construction,
operation and maintenance, repair, replacement, and rehabilitation of any flood control or flood
protection project that impacts multiple levee districts be proportionate to the value of the property
protected by the flood control or flood protection project within each levee district.
Proposed law requires payments for a drainage project under the jurisdiction of multiple levee
districts be proportionate to the value of the property protected by the drainage protection project
within each levee district. Proposed law further provides that payment for the cost of any drainage
project under the jurisdiction of an individual levee district will be borne by the levee district within
which the project is physically located.
Proposed law requires each levee district to establish individual accounts to deposit funds for the
joint costs of management, planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance, repair,
replacement, and rehabilitation for any flood control, flood protection, or drainage project, under the
jurisdiction of multiple levee districts, proportionate to the value of the property protected by the
flood control, flood protection, or drainage project within each levee district.
Proposed law exempts from proposed law levee districts proposing a flood control, flood protection,
or drainage project that provide their own mutually acceptable plan for payments in an agreement.
(Adds R.S. 38:292)