PART II. LEVY AND COLLECTION OF TAXES
SUBPART A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
§337.5.1. Levy of parish tax; sales tax in parish of state capitol
A. A vote of a majority of all the members of police juries shall be required to levy any parish tax, or to make any appropriation. In levying parish taxes, the police juries shall levy a uniform per centum on every species of property, trade, or profession, on which the state assesses a tax.
B. The governing body of the parish in which the State Capitol is situated shall be and is hereby empowered and authorized to levy and collect a tax of two percent on gross sales within said parish, but outside of any incorporated municipality therein. Said tax shall be imposed by ordinance of the governing authority, adopted after a public hearing thereon, and shall be levied upon the sale at retail, the use, the lease, or rental, the consumption, the distribution and storage for use or consumption of tangible personal property, upon the leasing or renting of tangible personal property upon sales of services in the parish, and upon the furnishing, repairing or serving articles of tangible personal property, all as presently or hereafter defined in R.S. 47:301 through 317. Said tax shall be in addition to all other taxes, and shall be collected by said parish in accordance with the provisions contained in the ordinance imposing the tax, and said parish is further authorized and empowered to provide for the collection thereof and to employ such means as may be necessary in connection therewith. In order to provide uniformity in the sales and use tax in said parish, the governing authority of the city of Baker is authorized to levy and collect as in the case of the governing body of the parish a similar tax pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of this section.
C. Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to prevent police juries in the river parishes from levying a special tax on land for construction and support of levees.
Amended by Acts 1956, No. 401, §1; Acts 1966, No. 398, §1; Acts 1970, No. 559, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2741 pursuant to Acts 2011, No. 248, §4.
{{NOTE: SEE ACTS 1990, NO. 66.}}
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