Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4160.25

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • front footage: shall mean the footage of each lot or parcel of real estate abutting the right of way or street, along which the drainage line is constructed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4160.25

A.  Upon the award of any contract under the provisions of this Chapter, the city shall forthwith require of an engineer a duly certified statement or report showing in detail the total cost of the improvements, including the cost of street intersections, engineer’s and attorney’s fees, and all other expenses incidental to the cost.  The report shall also show the amount of the cost chargeable to each lot or parcel to be benefitted in the proportion that its area bears to the total area to be assessed or in the proportion that its front footage bears to the total front footage to be assessed, as shall be determined by the governing authority.  However, when the assessment is made on a front foot basis and any drainage line is constructed upon more than one side of any lot or parcel of real estate, the total front footage of such lot or parcel of real estate to be assessed shall be determined by taking the total front footage of said lot or parcel of real estate abutting all drainage lines to be constructed and dividing such total front footage by two.  The report shall further describe each lot or parcel of real estate to be assessed with sufficient clarity to identify it.

B.  As used in this Chapter:

(1)  The words “front footage” shall mean the footage of each lot or parcel of real estate abutting the right of way or street, along which the drainage line is constructed.

(2)  The words “square footage” shall mean the area of land measured in square feet to be improved or benefitted by the improvements to be constructed.

Acts 1992, No. 472, §1.