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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:68

  • 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.

Corporations described in La. Rev. Stat. 45:64 have the right to build, construct, lay out, operate and maintain a line of canals, lateral ditches or conduits, and hydro-electric lines, over, under, and across all public rural highways and roads, with the consent of the local authorities having jurisdiction or control upon such terms the authorities may impose.