Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:873

  • 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 Wedell-Williams Memorial Aviation Museum of Louisiana shall be an aviation and historical museum responsible for the collection, preservation, and exhibition of archives, books, charts, documents, maps, records, and other equipment commemorating the memory of aviation pioneers and events in Louisiana.  All properties and the management thereof will be under the jurisdiction of the  office of the state museum in the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 99, §1; Acts 1995, No. 291, §1.