§1865. Tax levy for payment of indebtedness

The board of commissioners of any consolidated gravity drainage district assuming the outstanding bonded and other indebtedness of any drainage district or districts, shall impose and collect annually, in excess of all other taxes, a tax, on all the property subject to taxation by the board of commissioners under the constitution and laws of Louisiana, sufficient in amount to pay the interest annually or semiannually, and the principal falling due each year. The tax shall be levied and collected by the same officers, at the same time and in the same manner as the general taxes of the parish. Should any board neglect or fail for any reason to impose or collect sufficient taxes for the payment of the principal or interest of any bonded indebtedness assumed hereunder, any person in interest may enforce imposition and collection thereof in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and any suit, action, or proceeding brought by the person, in interest, shall be a preferred cause, and shall be heard and disposed of without delay. In the event of any default in the imposition and collection of taxes required for the payment of the principal and interest on any bonded debt assumed hereunder, the taxation officers of the state shall impose and collect the taxes and shall certify the taxes, and cause the taxes to be imposed and collected at the same time and in the same manner as the taxes for state purposes are imposed and collected in the consolidated gravity drainage district assuming the debt. All the articles and provisions of the Constitution of 1921, and all the laws in force or that may be hereafter enacted, regulating and relating to the collection of the taxes and tax sales shall also apply to and regulate the collection of the special taxes imposed under the provisions of this Part, through the officers whose duty it shall be to collect the taxes and moneys due the consolidated gravity drainage district imposing the special taxes.