Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:380 – Establishment and location; purpose and use
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:380
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
A. The Louisiana State Cotton Museum is established as a facility in the parish of East Carroll under the overall jurisdiction of the Department of State, as more specifically provided in this Chapter and in La. Rev. Stat. 36:744(F).
B. The Louisiana State Cotton Museum shall be a pre-historical, historical, cultural, scientific, and technological educational institution whose primary purpose shall be to research, collect, preserve, and present, as an educational resource, documents, artifacts, objects of art, and the like that reflect the social history, cultural history, natural history, and culture of Louisiana emphasizing the northeast region of Louisiana.
Acts 1992, No. 152, §2, eff. June 5, 1992; Acts 2021, No. 20, §4.