The state and all public officers, any parish, municipality, or other subdivision or instrumentality of the state, any political subdivision, any bank, banker, trust company, savings bank and institution, building and loan association, savings and loan association, investment company, or any person carrying on a banking or investment business, any insurance company or business, and any executor, administrator, curator, trustee, and other fiduciary, and retirement system or pension fund may legally invest any sinking funds monies, or other funds belonging to them or within their control in any bonds or their obligations issued by the district pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter, and such bonds or other obligations shall be authorized security for all public deposits.  It is the purpose of this Section to authorize such persons, firms, corporations, associations, political subdivisions, and officers or other entities, public or private, to use any funds owned or controlled by such entities including but not limited to sinking, insurance, investment, retirement, compensation, pension, and trust funds, and funds held on deposit for the purchase of any such bonds or other obligations of the district and that any such bonds shall be authorized security for all public deposits.  However, nothing contained in this Section with regard to legal investments or security for public deposits shall be construed as relieving any such person, firm, corporation, or other entity from any duty of exercising reasonable care in selecting securities.

Acts 2005, No. 487, §1, eff. July 12, 2005.