§7702. Consolidation authority
A. The governing authority of any parish may create by ordinance one or more consolidated special service districts in the parish, each of which shall be comprised of one or more existing districts of the same type; however, no consolidated garbage district shall include territory within the corporate limits of any municipality.
B. Such consolidated special service districts may also include territory not within the boundaries of an existing district of the same type and shall include territory not within the boundaries of an existing district of the same type, when only one existing district is to be so consolidated.
C. As a prerequisite to the creation of any consolidated special service district, the governing authority of the parish shall be furnished with a certified copy of a resolution, adopted by the governing authority of each existing district to be consolidated and by the governing authority of each municipality all or part of whose territory is proposed to be included in the consolidated district, requesting the parish to create a consolidated special service district and describing and defining the boundaries thereof.
D.(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection C of this Section, the governing authority of the parish of Sabine may create, by ordinance, a consolidated waterworks district comprised of the Ebarb Waterworks District and the South Toledo Bend Waterworks District without being furnished with a certified copy of a resolution adopted by the governing authority of each existing district or by the governing authority of each municipality all or part of whose territory is proposed to be included in the consolidated waterworks district requesting the parish to create such district.
(2) Except as provided in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, the consolidated waterworks district shall be otherwise governed by the provisions of this Chapter.
Added by Acts 1975, No. 94, §1; Acts 2005, No. 85, §1, eff. June 21, 2005.
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