§ 33:3882 — Notice of intention to create sewerage district

Notice of intention to create a sewerage district shall be ordered by resolution which shall state the territory the sewerage district is to be composed of, and its proposed boundaries. This notice shall embrace substantially all matters required to be set forth in the resolution ordering the notice, and shall set forth further that the police jury ordering the notice will, in open session, on a day and at an hour and place named, proceed to create the proposed sewerage district.
No sewerage districts shall be created hereunder until this notice has been given. Police juries may give this notice upon their own initiative. They shall give the notice when required so to do by the petition in writing of one-fourth of the property taxpayers residing within the proposed district.
The notice shall be published once a week for three successive weeks, the first publication being not less than fifteen days before the date fixed for the hearing. The publication shall be in the official journal of the governing authority.

Legislative History

Amended by Acts 1968, No. 73, §1.