Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 38, § 1802. Application of provisions; effect on existing laws

The provisions of this Part shall apply to gravity drainage or sub-drainage districts authorized to be created under Article XIV of the Constitution of 1921, and created or reorganized under its provisions; and shall not apply to any drainage district created under Article XV of the Constitution of 1921, except as herein otherwise provided in R.S. 38:1801. This Part shall be considered as the general law governing gravity drainage districts or gravity sub-drainage districts under which they must organize in the future. But all laws or parts of laws, general or special, appertaining to drainage or sub-drainage districts shall remain in force as to the drainage or sub-drainage districts now existing, which are not reorganized under the provisions of this Part.