Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:380.21

  • 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 State Oil and Gas Museum is established as a facility in the parish of Caddo 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 State Oil and Gas 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, documents, artifacts, objects of art, and the like that reflect the social, cultural, and economic history of the oil industry in Louisiana and the Caddo Parish area in particular.

            Acts 1997, No. 1091, §1; Acts 2001, No. 130, §1; Acts 2021, No. 20, §4.