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RS 38:352

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RS 38:352
§352. Petition for expropriation of property; contents; place of filing
The rights of expropriation of property granted by this Part shall be exercised in the following manner:
(1)A petition shall be filed by the governing authority of the levee district or levee and drainage district in the district court of the parish in which the property to be expropriated is situated. Where the property to be expropriated extends into two or more parishes and the owner of the property resides in one of them, the petition shall be filed in the district court of the parish where the owner resides, but if the owner does not reside in any one of the parishes into which the property extends, the petition may be filed in any one of the parishes. In all such cases, the court wherein the petition is filed shall have jurisdiction to adjudicate as to all the property involved.
(2)The petition shall contain a statement of the purpose for which the property is to be expropriated describing the property necessary therefor and the reasons for the necessity, with a plan of the same, a description of the improvements thereon, if any, and the name of the owner, if known.
(3)The petition shall have annexed thereto the following:
(a)A certified copy of a resolution adopted by the governing authority of the levee district or levee and drainage district, with the concurrence of not less than two-thirds of a quorum, declaring that the expropriation is necessary or useful for the purposes of this Part.
(b)An itemized statement of the amount of money estimated to be the full extent of the owner's loss for the expropriation or the damage, or both, as the case may be. It shall be signed by those who made the estimate, showing the capacity in which they acted and the date on which it was made.
Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985.
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