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.

            Added by Acts 1974, No. 678, §1; Acts 2019, No. 200, §1.