§1247.12. District as political subdivision; incurring debt; election imposing taxes; authority

Any ambulance service district created is hereby declared to be a political subdivision of the state. For carrying out the purposes of the ambulance service district as provided in these Sections, the district, under the provisions of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, shall have the powers of taxation and the power to incur debt and issue bonds and to call an election for the purpose of imposing any authorized taxes or to incur debt, provided that the district shall not impose any tax increasing measures until the qualified electors of the district have approved the additional taxes. Whenever the governing body of a district calls an election for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of the district the question of incurring debt and issuing bonds for the purpose of efficient ambulance service it may, in the same election, submit to the qualified electors of the district, in the manner provided by Title 39, Subtitle II, Chapter 4, and by Sections 32 and 33 of Article VI of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, a proposition to levy a special tax of not more than ten mills on the dollar for the purpose of maintaining and operating the ambulance service facilities of the district. The provisions of this Section do not prohibit the voting of this maintenance tax by any district which has acquired or proposes to acquire its ambulance service facilities through some means other than the issuance of bonds.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 113, §1.