A.  In addition to the powers granted it by the General Nonprofit Corporation Law, Title 12 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes, the corporation shall have power to undertake any project, to provide for the financing thereof, and in connection therewith:

(1)  To receive and accept from any agency of the United States or any agency of the state of Louisiana or any municipality, parish, or other political subdivision thereof, or from any individual, association, or corporation gifts, grants, or donations of moneys or other property for achieving any of the purposes of this Chapter.

(2)  To finance, own, lease as lessee or lessor a correctional facility or facilities owned or leased by the corporation, and to designate the Division of Administration as its agent to determine the location and character of a correctional facility undertaken under this Chapter and as the agent of the corporation to maintain, manage, operate, lease as lessee or lessor, or regulate the same, and as the agent of the corporation to enter into contracts for any or all of such purposes, to enter into contracts for any or all such purposes, including contracts for the construction, of such correctional facility or facilities owned or leased by the corporation.  No correctional facility shall be located within any residential area except as permitted by and upon compliance with the procedures set forth in La. Rev. Stat. 15:891.

(3)  To receive and accept from any source loans, contributions, or grants for or in aid of a project, or the financing thereof in either money, property, labor, or other things of value.

(4)  To mortgage all or any portion of its interest in a correctional facility or facilities and the property on which any such correctional facility or facilities are located, whether owned or thereafter acquired, including the granting of a security interest in any property, tangible or intangible, and to assign or pledge all or any portion of its interest in property, tangible or intangible, and the revenues therefrom.

(5)  To lease for a term not to exceed thirty years to the state of Louisiana through an agency designated by the governor, or to a parish of the state of Louisiana through an agency designated by the governing authority of the parish, the project being financed or correctional facilities conveyed to the corporation in connection with such financing, upon such terms and conditions as are mutually agreeable and both parties deem proper, however, any and all such agreements shall contain an annual appropriation dependency clause, and to charge and collect rents therefor and to terminate any such lease upon the failure of the lessee to comply with any of the obligations thereof; to include in any such lease, if it shall so desire, provisions that the lessee thereof shall have options to renew the term of the lease for such period or periods and at such rent as shall be determined by the corporation or to purchase any or all of the correctional facilities, or that upon payment of all of the indebtedness incurred by the corporation for the financing of such project, then the corporation shall convey any or all of the correctional facilities to the state of Louisiana or any other department or agency of the state of Louisiana or the parish governing authority or agency of the parish with or without consideration.  The state of Louisiana through any department or agencies or any parish of the state entering into a lease for real or personal property with the corporation, whether as lessee or lessor, pursuant to this Chapter may do so.

(6)  To obtain, or aid in obtaining, from any department or agency of the United States or the state of Louisiana or any private company, any insurance or guarantee as to, or of, or for the payment or repayment of, interest or principal, or both, or any part thereof, on any lease or obligation or any instrument evidencing or securing the same, made or entered into pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter and to assign any such insurance or guarantee as security for the corporation’s bonds.

(7)  To enter into any trust agreement or agreements providing, among other matters, for the execution and delivery of certificates in any lease between the state and the corporation or between a parish and the corporation.

(8)  To enter into any and all agreements or contracts, execute any and all instruments, and do and perform any and all acts or things necessary, convenient, or desirable for the purposes of the corporation or to carry out any power expressly given in this Chapter.

(9)  After approval by the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, to acquire by expropriation in accordance with La. Rev. Stat. 19:1 through 14, the following described property in Union Parish:

“The entire Section 12 and North half of North half (N/2 of N/2) of Section 13, less and except one (1) acre, more or less, in the Northeast corner of NE/4 of NE/4, all in Township 22 North, Range 1 East

AND

West Half of West Half of West Half of Northwest Quarter (W/2 of W/2 of W/2 of NW/4) and West Half of Southwest Quarter (W/2 of SW/4) of Section 7; Northwest Quarter of Northwest Quarter (NW/4 of NW/4) of Section 18, all in Township 22 North, Range 2 East Containing in the aggregate 934.66 acres, more or less, all in Union Parish, Louisiana.”

(10)  In addition to any general powers and notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, to sell, alienate, or otherwise dispose of any property acquired for the purpose of financing and acquisition of correctional facilities for lease to the state of Louisiana but never used by the corporation for this purpose.  The requirements and provisions of La. Rev. Stat. 41:1338 are not applicable to the sale, alienation, or disposal of any such property by the corporation.

B.  In addition to the powers granted it by law, the state of Louisiana through any of its departments or agencies designated by the governor shall have the power:

(1)  To enter into a negotiated lease or leases with the corporation of any correctional facility for a term not to exceed thirty years upon such terms and conditions as it shall deem proper, however, such agreements shall contain an annual appropriation dependency clause.

(2)  To sublease any such leased correctional facilities to any political subdivision or public body of the state of Louisiana or to any commission, entity, or regional authority created under or by intergovernmental cooperation under the laws of the state of Louisiana; provided that no such sublease shall relieve the sublessor of its obligations under its lease from the corporation relating to the subleased correctional facilities.

(3)  To negotiate a lease to the corporation of land owned by the state for a period not to exceed thirty years upon such terms and conditions as it shall deem proper.

(4)  To negotiate a sale to the corporation of land or existing correctional facilities owned by the state upon such terms and conditions and with such consideration as it deems proper.  Any sale of such land or existing correctional facilities by the state shall not be subject to any public bid laws or any other laws governing the sale of land or buildings owned by the state.

C.  Any political subdivision or public body of the state of Louisiana or any commission, entity, or regional authority created under the law of the state of Louisiana may, with the prior approval of the Division of Administration and subject to all applicable laws, enter into a sublease of correctional facilities from the state of Louisiana.  Any approval which may be required before any such political subdivision, public body, commission, entity, or regional authority may enter into such sublease shall be obtained in accordance with law applicable to such entity.

Acts 1985, No. 893, §1, eff. July 23, 1985; Acts 1986, No. 789, §1; Acts 1986, No. 590, §1; Acts 1988, No. 933, §2, eff. July 26, 1988; Acts 2003, No. 113, §1, eff. May 28, 2003.