ENROLLED
ACT No. 290
2020 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 640
BY REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES OWEN
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 33:3819(A) and to repeal R.S. 33:3819(B) through (L), relative
3 to waterworks districts; to provide relative to the per diem paid to members of the
4 board of commissioners; to repeal provisions relative to certain waterworks districts
5 with respect to the per diem paid to board members; and to provide for related
6 matters.
7 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. R.S. 33:3819(A) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
9 ยง3819. Meetings of commissioners; meeting place; absences; compensation
10 A. The commissioners of each waterworks district may meet as often as
11 necessary, but shall meet at least once every three months. The board of waterworks
12 commissioners by resolution shall designate a regular meeting place for the holding
13 of its meetings, which shall be held at a place located within the waterworks district
14 or at the parish seat of the parish in which the district is located, even though the
15 parish seat is not within the boundaries of the waterworks district. The absence of
16 a commissioner from any four consecutive meetings shall be deemed to create a
17 vacancy and it shall be filled by the police jury, if the commissioner had been
18 appointed by the police jury, or by appointment of the governing authority of a
19 municipality included in the district, if the commissioner had been appointed by the
20 municipal said governing authority. The parish governing authority in the parish in
21 which each waterworks district is located may fix the and pay a per diem to be paid
22 to each of the members of the board of commissioners of the respective waterworks
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1 districts in an amount not to exceed less than sixty dollars and not more than per
2 diem paid to members of the Louisiana legislature for each meeting they attend, up
3 to and including twenty-four meetings in each year and for each special meeting not
4 to exceed twelve special meetings in each year. Per diem provided by this Section
5 shall be paid out of the district funds in the hands of the treasurer; however, no
6 elected official serving as a member of the board of commissioners shall receive any
7 per diem for attending meetings of the board.
8 * * *
9 Section 2. R.S. 33:3819(B) through (L) are hereby repealed in their entirety.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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