§3965. Improvements; notice of intention; publication; hearing; objections

A. Any sewerage district or subdistrict desiring to take advantage of this Subpart through its governing authority shall, after securing the approval of the governing authority of the municipality in which it is located, adopt a resolution giving notice of its intention to purchase, construct, improve, or maintain such sewerage system or systems and embody therein in a general way the improvement contemplated and the manner of payment therefor and what portion thereof, if any, shall be paid by assessment on the property within said district or subdistrict, what portion, if any, shall be paid by taxes on property in the district levied pursuant to R.S. 33:3980.1, and what portion shall be paid by the monthly sewerage charges hereinafter provided for, if any, and whether the municipality in which said district or subdistrict is located shall issue its own notes secured by the above named sources of revenue or incur debt or issue bonds secured by taxes on property pursuant to R.S. 33:3980.1. Such notice shall be signed by the governing authority of the sewerage district or subdistrict and approved by the governing authority of the municipality in which such district or subdistrict is located and shall set forth further that the authority ordering the giving of such notice will be in open session at a date, hour, and place, and said authority, on such date, hour, and place, shall proceed to hear any and all objections to the proposed improvements and the manner of payment therefor, which objections shall be in writing and filed with the governing authority prior to the hearing.

B. Only property owners owning property within the sewerage district or subdistrict, and who are qualified to vote in the municipality in which the district or subdistrict is located under the laws of Louisiana shall have the right to file objections.

C. After hearing and passing upon all such objections, and finding that not more than forty percent of the property owners within the district or subdistrict, in number and assessed value, qualified to object have objected and refused to withdraw their objections, said authority shall proceed, if it so determines, to order such improvements constructed, maintained, or acquired in the manner hereinafter provided for.

D. Such notice of intention shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks and shall be made in a newspaper published within the district, or, if there be none published, in some newspaper in the parish where the district is located.

Acts 1950, Ex.Sess., No. 6, §5; Acts 1999, No. 1167, §1.