Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:312 – Notification of owners of oil, gas, or waterlines before construction or removal of levees
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:312
- Board of commissioners: means a group of persons appointed under the provisions of law to exercise certain authorities over and have oversight and control of a levee district or levee and drainage district. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:281
- Levee and drainage district: means a political subdivision of this state organized for the purpose and charged with the duty of constructing and maintaining levees, drainage, and all other things incidental thereto within its territorial limits. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:281
- Levee district: means a political subdivision of this state organized for the purpose and charged with the duty of constructing and maintaining levees, and all other things incidental thereto within its territorial limits. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:281
Except in cases of immediate emergency due to caving river banks, a breach, or an approaching breach of the maintaining line of the public levee, whenever any new levee is to be built or any old levee is to be moved in any levee district or levee and drainage district and the new levee to be constructed or old levee to be moved shall cross or be built along or upon any oil, gas, or water pipeline, the board of commissioners of the levee district or levee and drainage district building the levee or moving the old levee shall notify the owners of the oil, gas, or waterlines at least thirty days prior to beginning the new levee construction or work of removal in order to enable the owners to move their pipelines.
Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985.