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urn: urn:us-la:rs:38:3071
citation: "R.S. 38:3071"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 38 › Chapter 13 › Part XIII"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1974, number: 678, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
  - { year: 2019, number: 200, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: amendment }
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# Legislative finding; purpose

A. The orderly utilization of groundwater resources is hereby found and declared to be a matter of public interest.

B. It is the purpose of this part to provide for the efficient administration, conservation, orderly development and supplementation of groundwater resources by the establishment of a groundwater conservation district composed of the parishes of Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana.