A.  The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board or the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority may do all things necessary to carry out the purposes of this Chapter, including but not limited to the things expressly provided for in this Section.

B.(1)  The chairman of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board or the executive director of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority may enter into contracts and agreements of any nature for the purposes of this Chapter with any person, natural or artificial, corporation, association or other entity, including public corporations, levee districts, port authorities, state departments, agencies, parishes, municipalities, the United States government and agencies thereof, or any combination thereof or with instrumentalities of every kind, and may designate any department, agency, municipality, parish, levee district, and industrial district or other political subdivision of the state as its agent to carry out the purposes of the powers granted under this Chapter.

(2)  The chairman of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board or the executive director of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority may negotiate with and enter into contracts or other agreements with any such person or entity concerning the joint administration of the project, including jurisdictional aspects of the state’s administration of the project, and providing lands, servitudes, and rights-of-way, the relocation of project facilities and may engage jointly in the exercise of any power and in the construction of any facilities and improvements for the purposes of the project on any basis, including matching of funds, which the participating entities may undertake under any provision of general or specific law.

C.  The chairman of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board or the executive director of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority may institute or defend in courts of competent jurisdiction, including for the purposes of this Chapter the courts and administrative tribunals of the United States, any legal proceedings that may be necessary or required to compel compliance with this Chapter or any actions taken hereunder or that may arise out of the performance of the obligations and duties imposed by the Chapter.

D.  The powers granted under this Chapter shall be regarded as supplemental to powers conferred on the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board or the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority by other laws.

Acts 1997, No. 698, §1, eff. July 7, 1997; Acts 2009, No. 523, §2, eff. July 10, 2009; Acts 2012, No. 604, §2, eff. June 7, 2012.