SUBPART H. SEWERAGE AND WATER BOARDS

§4067. Cameron Parish Water and Wastewater Board for District No. 1

A. The Cameron Parish Water and Wastewater Board for District No. 1 is hereby created as the governing authority of Cameron Parish Water and Wastewater District No. 1.

B. The Cameron Parish Water and Wastewater Board for District No. 1 shall be comprised of five members. Each member shall be appointed by the police jury of Cameron Parish. Terms of members shall be determined by the governing authority of Cameron Parish. An appointed member shall be a registered voter of Cameron Parish and reside within the boundaries of the district for at least two years prior to his appointment. The police jury shall designate the domicile of the board. The board shall by resolution designate a regular meeting place for the holding of its meetings within the district. The police jury may authorize payment of a per diem to each member of the board in an amount not to exceed sixty dollars for each day of his attendance at meetings of the board up to and including twenty-four days in each year. The police jury may also authorize payment of each member of a per diem for attendance at up to and including twelve emergency meetings of the board called in any one calendar year. Per diem for board members shall be paid out of the district fund.

C.(1) The Cameron Parish Water and Wastewater Board for District No. 1 shall be the successor board to the board of Cameron Parish Sewerage District No. 1, the board of Cameron Parish Waterworks District No. 1, and the Cameron Parish Sewerage and Water Board for District No. 1, hereinafter referred to as the "former boards". As successor, Cameron Parish Water and Wastewater Board for District No. 1 shall have all powers and duties of the board of waterworks districts and sewerage districts set forth in Chapters 8 and 9 of Title 33 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 and all other powers granted by law for the maintenance and operation of waterworks districts and sewerage districts. The board shall merge all past and future funds, revenues, and ad valorem maintenance taxes of the Cameron Parish Sewerage District No. 1 and the Cameron Parish Waterworks District No. 1 into one fund which shall be named Cameron Parish Water and Wastewater District No. 1 Fund.

(2)(a) Subject to the approval of a majority of the electors of the district voting in an election held for that purpose, the board is hereby authorized to levy and collect an ad valorem tax. Such ad valorem tax shall be imposed by resolution of the board only after the question of the imposition of the tax has been submitted to the qualified electors of the district at an election conducted in accordance with the election laws of the state, and the majority of those voting in the election shall have voted in favor of the proposition. The proceeds of such tax shall be used for the purpose of maintaining and operating the district.

(b) Upon successful passage of the collection of the ad valorem tax, taxes currently collected separately for the Cameron Parish Sewerage District No. 1 and Cameron Parish Waterworks District No. 1 shall be abolished.

(3) Members of the former boards in office on June 16, 2002, shall continue to serve until their successors are appointed and qualified at which time the former boards are hereby abolished.

D. The Cameron Parish Water and Wastewater District No. 1 shall be comprised of the territory beginning at a point which is the intersection of the east line of Township 15 South, Range 9 West, with the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico, thence north along the east lines of the said Township 15 South, Range 9 West, and Townships 14 and 13 South, Range 9 West, to the intersection of said line with the north boundary line of Ward 3, which is the center section line of Section 13, Township 13 South, Range 9 West at that point, thence west along the center section line of Section 13, Township 13 South, Range 9 West and a projection thereof to a point where said line intersects on the east or left descending bank of the Calcasieu Ship Channel, thence following the east or left descending bank of the Calcasieu Ship Channel to the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico, thence easterly along the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico, to point of beginning.

Acts 1990, No. 818, §1; Acts 1990, No. 950, §3, eff. July 25, 1990; Acts 2002, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 26, §1; Acts 2009, No. 62, §1; Acts 2009, No. 318, §1.

*NOTE: Acts 1990, No. 818, eff. September 7, 1990; Acts 1990, No. 950, eff. July 25, 1990.

NOTE: See Acts 2009, No. 62, §2, and No. 318, §2, relative to implementation of change in number of members.