§551.8. Sabine Parish Industrial District

A. The Sabine Parish Industrial District is hereby created as a political subdivision of the state. The territorial limits and jurisdiction of the district shall extend throughout the entire parish of Sabine.

B. The governing authority of the district shall be a board of commissioners consisting of nine members, one member to be appointed by the governing authority of Sabine Parish; one to be appointed by the governing authority of each of the following municipalities: Many, Zwolle, Pleasant Hill, Converse, Noble, Florien, and Fisher; and one member appointed by the Board of Directors of the Sabine Parish Chamber of Commerce. Each member shall be a qualified voter and bona fide resident of the district during his term of office and shall serve for a term concurrent with the term of the authority which appointed him. Members shall serve without compensation; however, such members shall be entitled to reimbursement of actual expenses incurred in connection with official business of the district.

C. The powers and duties conferred by the constitution and laws of this state governing industrial districts and the power to incur debt and issue bonds to encourage industrial enterprises, including, but not by way of limitation, the provisions of R.S. 39:551.1 through 551.3 and the provisions of Part XII of Chapter 4 of Subtitle II of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, except those powers and duties pertaining to facilities for the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity and the production of steam and other forms of energy recited therein and elsewhere in the laws of the state, shall apply to the Sabine Parish Industrial District, except as otherwise provided in this Section.

D. In addition to all other powers and authorities granted to the district, the board of commissioners may levy annually an ad valorem tax not to exceed three mills on the dollar of assessed valuation of all property, provided that the amount, term, and purpose of said tax, as set forth in a proposition submitted to a vote, shall be approved by a majority of the qualified electors voting in a special election held for that purpose. The avails of such tax may be used for any expenses or purposes of the district.

Acts 1987, No. 41, §1, eff. June 2, 1987; Acts 1988, No. 337, §1, eff. July 7, 1988.