The district may borrow and issue debt instruments, but some issuance is subject to board resolution requirements, State Bond Commission approval, and a 30-day contest period.
§344. Obligations of the district A. The district shall have authority to incur debt for any one or more of its lawful purposes set forth in this Part, to issue in its name negotiable bonds, notes, certificates of indebtedness, or other evidence of debt, and to provide for the security and payment thereof. B.(1) The district may in its own name and behalf borrow from time to time in the form of certificates of indebtedness. The certificates shall be secured by the dedication and pledge of monies of the district derived from any lawful sources, including fees, lease rentals, service charges, local service agreement payments from one or more other contracting parties, or any combination of such sources of income, provided that the term of such certificates shall not exceed ten years and the annual debt service on the amount borrowed shall not exceed the anticipated revenues to be dedicated and pledged to the payment of the certificates of indebtedness, as shall be estimated by the board of the district at the time of the adoption of the resolution authorizing the issuance of such certificates. The estimate of the board referred to in the authorizing resolution shall be conclusive for all purposes of this Section. (2) The board, as the governing authority of the district, is authorized to adopt all necessary resolutions or ordinances which may be necessary for ordering, holding, canvassing, and promulgating the returns of any election required for the issuance of general obligation bonds, which resolutions or ordinances may include covenants for the security and payment of any bonds or other evidence of debt so issued. (3) For a period of thirty days from the date of publication of any resolution or ordinance authorizing the issuance of any bonds, certificates of indebtedness, notes, or other evidence of debt of the district, any interested person may contest the legality of such resolution or ordinance and the validity of such bonds, certificates of indebtedness, notes, or other evidence of debt issued or proposed to be issued thereunder and the security of their payment, after which time no one shall have any cause of action to contest the legality of the resolution or ordinance or to draw into question the legality of the bonds, certificates of indebtedness, notes, or other evidence of debt, the security therefor, or the debts represented thereby for any cause whatever, and it shall be conclusively presumed that every legal requirement has been complied with, and no court shall have authority to inquire into such matters after the lapse of thirty days. (4) The issuance and sale of such bonds, certificates of indebtedness, notes, or other evidence of debt by the district shall be subject to approval by the State Bond Commission. (5) Such bonds, certificates of indebtedness, notes, or other evidence of debt shall have all the qualities of negotiable instruments under the commercial laws of the state of Louisiana. Acts 2021, No. 337, §1.