Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 26, § 583. Effect of merger

C. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsections A and B of this Section, any package house in existence and operating as such on August 15, 1995, in an area that is subsequently annexed into a ward, election district, municipality, or city-parish government that prohibits the sale of alcoholic beverages shall be allowed to continue operation and shall not be subject to the provisions of Subsections A and B of this Section.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any parish with a population between forty thousand and fifty thousand, based upon the latest federal decennial census, shall not be subject to the provisions of Subsections A and B of this Section and shall retain the legal sales characteristics as provided for by referendum prior to any annexation or reapportionment.

D. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsections A and B of this Section, Ward Two, Bastrop, Morehouse Parish as described in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection that was annexed, reapportioned into, or merged into another ward, election district, municipality, or city-parish government that authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages shall not be subject to the provisions of Subsections A and B of this Section and shall not take on the legal sales characteristics of the larger area.

(2) Ward Two, Bastrop, Morehouse Parish. From the intersection of the Louisiana-Arkansas state line with the Ouachita River run east on the Louisiana-Arkansas state line to where said line intersects Bayou Chemin-A-Haut; thence down Bayou Chemin-A-Haut to its mouth in Bayou Bartholomew; thence down Bayou Bartholomew to a point where it intersects the township line between Township 21 North and Township 22 North; thence west on said township line and being the northern boundary line of ward one to where said township line intersects the Ouachita River; thence in a northerly direction with the Ouachita River to the point of beginning.