RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 205 (SB 87) 2023 Regular Session Robert Mills
Existing law provides for the creation, organization, powers, and duties of a metropolitan
planning commission to manage the metropolitan planning area in and around the
municipality of Benton and includes certain unincorporated areas of Bossier Parish.
Prior law provided for a metropolitan planning area that included the village of Benton but
was limited to the area lying within a five-mile radius outside of the village of Benton in the
unincorporated part of Bossier Parish.
New law expands the jurisdictional boundaries of the metropolitan planning area to extend
beyond the five-mile radius in prior law to also include a larger portion of the unincorporated
area of Bossier Parish.
New law changes the term "village" to "municipality" to reflect the fact that the population
of Benton has grown to such an extent that the area no longer meets the definition of a
"village".
Prior law defined the "metropolitan planning commission" to mean the Benton-Parish
Metropolitan Planning Commission.
New law defines the "metropolitan planning commission" to mean the Benton Metropolitan
Planning Commission.
Effective August 1, 2023.
(Amends Act No. 558 of the 1956 R.S.)