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urn: urn:us-la:rs:3:321
citation: "R.S. 3:321"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 3 › Chapter 4-A › Part II"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 2021, number: 331, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
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# Policy statement

Louisiana's rural areas are a vital element of the state. In order to mitigate the rapid deterioration of rural health, education, infrastructure, and other systems essential to the socioeconomic well-being of Louisiana's rural population, it is necessary that the state encourage and support the creation of a rural development program. It is therefore declared to be the public policy of this state to develop and enhance the state's rural areas through a rural development fund and a program of rural development.