§215. Powers and authority of district

Without impairing or diminishing the import and meaning of the other Sections of this Part, except as in the respects hereafter specifically shown and provided, the Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District shall have the authority:

(1) To own, construct, operate, and maintain docks, wharves, sheds, elevators, locks, slips, laterals, basins, warehouses, docks, wharves, and all other property, structures, equipment, and facilities including belts and connecting lines of ships and railroads and works of public improvements necessary or useful for port, harbor, and terminal purposes to dredge and maintain shipways, channels, slips, basins, and turning basins;

(2) To establish, operate, and maintain in cooperation with the federal government and the state of Louisiana and its various agencies, subdivisions, and public bodies navigable waterway systems;

(3) To acquire, by right of eminent domain, purchase, lease, or otherwise, the land that may be necessary for the business of the district, including industrial plant sites and necessary property or appurtenances thereto, and to acquire or construct industrial plant buildings with necessary machinery and equipment within said district;

(4) To lease or sublease for processing, manufacturing, commercial, and business purposes lands or buildings owned, acquired, or leased as lessee by said district, including environmental and pollution structures and installations, which lease may run for any term not exceeding forty years at a fixed rental and shall contain a clause or clauses for readjustment of the rentals until the expiration of the period of the lease;

(5) To borrow from any person or corporation using or renting any land, or dock, or warehouse, or any facility, of said district such sums as shall be necessary to improve the same according to plans and specifications approved by the governing authority and to erect and construct such improvement and agree that the loan therefor shall be liquidated by deducting from the rent, dock, wharf, or toll charges or other charges payable for such property a percentage thereof to be agreed on, subject, however, to any covenants or agreements made by the holders of revenue bonds issued under the authority herein set forth.

Added by Acts 1973, No. 81, §1. Acts 1987, No. 102, §1, eff. June 18, 1987.