Louisiana · statute · La. Rev. Stat. tit. 38 · 1,178 active provisions
The department of public works is hereby created and is hereby declared to be and continued as a body politic and corporate. The domicile of the department of public works is the city of Baton Rouge, and service of citation and other service of process shall be made by handing the citation and other process to the dire…
A.(1) The functions of the Department of Transportation and Development shall comprise all of the administrative functions of the state in relation to the planning, design, survey and construction, operation, and maintenance and repair of public buildings used in connection with the operation of the department, and of…
A. The Department of Transportation and Development shall plan systems of inland waterways, navigation drainage; irrigation and water conservation projects; foster the maintenance, improvement, and extension of the Intracoastal Canal System and its feeders; and initiate, sponsor, and carry through to completion all wat…
The Department of Public Works may, on its own initiative and at its own expense with any money appropriated by the State for these purposes, drain and reclaim, or cause to be drained and reclaimed, the undrained or partially drained marsh, swamp and overflow lands in the state, with the view of controlling floods and…
The Department of Public Works may also cooperate with the federal government or any federal agency, and may receive and expend grants of money by the federal government or any federal agency for the purpose, upon any terms and conditions prescribed by the Congress or any agency of the federal government under authorit…
A. For the purpose of providing planning assistance to municipal, parish, regional and other planning agencies of the state of Louisiana in the solution of their planning problems, the Department of Public Works, State of Louisiana, be and is authorized to apply for and accept grants of money from the government of the…
The Department of Transportation and Development may also cooperate with any drainage or subdrainage district, any gravity drainage or gravity subdrainage district, any levee board, or any political subdivision, now or hereafter organized in accordance with law, upon any terms and conditions prescribed by the departmen…
The Department of Public Works shall consist of the position of Director of Public Works and the Board of Public Works, and all divisions which may be established in accordance with this Chapter.
The Director of Public Works shall be the head of the department.
The head of the department shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate for a term of four years and until his successor has qualified. The compensation of the director shall be fixed by the governor. His appointment shall be made on the sole basis of his qualifications to administer the…
Subject to the executive direction and control which is vested in the governor as chief magistrate of the state by the constitution and this Chapter, the director shall have the management of the department and, subject to the provisions of this Chapter, shall exercise all the functions of the department himself or thr…
The director, subject to the limitations of appropriations and any law relating to the civil service of the state or any department or other agency thereof that may be in effect, may establish and make appointments to positions within the department, abolish positions, transfer duties between positions and assign dutie…
The work of the department, other than that performed by the director or assigned to the board, shall be distributed among the divisions provided by or established in accordance with this Chapter. The heads of divisions shall be appointed by the director subject to any provisions of law in effect. Except as the interna…
The director shall cause to be designated, and shall prescribe, a definite plan or organization and procedure of the department with a view to the most effective conduct of the work of the department. The plan shall include such elements as unified and systematic procedure, definite allocation of functions to the divis…
The governor may prescribe all general administrative rules for the conduct of the affairs of the administrative departments, not inconsistent with law which he may deem necessary or expedient. The head of the department may prescribe all administrative rules with the approval of the board of the department which he ma…
The assistant secretary shall not authorize reports and recommendations which include the issue, publication, or distribution of general information documents or pamphlets, which are published on a regular basis and are generally known as newsletters.
A. The Board of Public Works is hereby abolished. B. The secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development shall be responsible for performing or exercising or delegating to an office within his department any powers or functions heretofore vested in the Board of Public Works.
A. The assistant secretary shall exercise the functions of the office of engineering, subject to the direction and control of the secretary. B. The assistant secretary may enter into written contracts with the federal government or any federal agency, or any political subdivision of the state or private individual for…
The Louisiana Department of Public Works shall without fail confer with the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission in the earliest possible planning stage on every project affecting wetlands and other wildlife habitat, whether such projects be joint state-federal, state-parish or state or parish projects.
A. In order to merge and consolidate into one department, under authority of Section 32 of Article III of the Constitution of 1921, the executive and administrative offices of the State of Louisiana whose duties and functions are of a similar nature or character, the Fort Buelhar Lake Commission, created and provided f…
A. There shall be two members appointed to represent the state of Louisiana on the Red River Compact Commission as required by Act No. 71 of the 1978 Regular Session of the Legislature. One member shall be the chief engineer of the office of engineering of the Department of Transportation and Development or his designe…
It is the responsibility of the state to provide a means for the inspection, regulation, and supervision of all present or future dams within the state and the operation and maintenance of those as specified in this Chapter, both federal and nonfederal but excluding the Toledo Bend Dam, and the locks and dams on the Re…
When used in this Chapter, the following words, terms, and phrases shall have the following meaning: (1) "Dam" is any artificial barrier, including appurtenant works, which does or will impound or divert water or any other liquid substance and which has or will have a dam height of twenty-five feet or more or has or wi…
A. All dams, as described in R.S. 38:22, both federal and nonfederal but excluding the Toledo Bend Dam, and the locks and dams on the Red River, Ouachita River, Black River, Mississippi River and tributaries under the jurisdiction of the United States Army Corp of Engineers, shall be under the jurisdiction of the state…
A.(1) The chief engineer shall adopt and may from time to time amend rules and regulations in order to establish standards for the construction, modification, operation, and maintenance of such dams and to administer and enforce these provisions. In order to secure conformity with the adopted rules and regulations and…