Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:833

  • 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.

The Louisiana Cypress Sawmill Museum shall be a cypress sawmill and historical museum responsible for the collection, preservation, and exhibition of archives, books, charts, documents, maps, records, and other artifacts relative to the history of the cypress sawmill industry in Louisiana.  All properties and the management thereof will be under the jurisdiction of the office of the state museum of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.

Acts 1997, No. 722, §1.