Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:380.51

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

            A. The Louisiana Delta Music Museum is established as a facility in the town of Ferriday, parish of Concordia, under the overall jurisdiction of the Department of State as more specifically provided in this Chapter and in La. Rev. Stat. 36:744(F).

            B. The Louisiana Delta Music Museum shall be a historical, cultural, scientific, and technological educational institution whose primary purpose shall be to research, collect, preserve, and present, as an educational resource, the music, recordings, pictures, documents, artifacts, objects of art, and the like that reflect the social, cultural, and economic history of the music of the Louisiana Delta and the Concordia Parish area in particular.

            Acts 2001, No. 850, §1; Acts 2021, No. 20, §4.