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  "urn": "urn:us-la:rs:38:305",
  "title_number": "38",
  "section_number": "305",
  "citation": "R.S. 38:305",
  "heading": "Employment of attorney",
  "text": "Except as provided in R.S. 38:330.5, each levee board and levee and drainage board for a levee district or levee and drainage district may employ one or more attorneys to represent it and to offer advice and assistance of a legal nature and one or more engineers. The salary of each attorney shall be determined by the board.",
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      "number": "4",
      "name": "LEVEE DISTRICTS"
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      "number": "III",
      "name": "GENERAL PROVISIONS"
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      "act_year": 1985,
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  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985; Acts 2006, 1 st Ex. Sess., No. 1, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.",
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