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ACT No. 3. AN ACT To establish the Department of Institutions; to merge and consolidate therein and transfer thereto the functions of the State Hospital Board, the State Hospital Director, the Board of Directors of the State Industrial School for Colored Youths, the Board of Commissioners of the State Industrial School for Girls, the Board of Commissioners of the Louisiana Training Institute, the Board of Administrators of the State Colony and Training School, the Board of Administrators of the East Louisiana State Hospital, the Board of Administrators of the Louisiana Hospital for the Insane of the State of Louisiana (Central Louisiana Hospital), the Huey P. Long Hospital (Pineville), the Florida Parishes Charity Hospital (Independence), the Southwest Louisiana Charity Hospital (Lafayette), the Board of Directors of the Northeast Louisiana Charity Hospital (Monroe), the Hot Wells Hospital (Rapides Parish), the Board of Directors of the Shreveport Charity Hospital, the Maternity Hospital (Baton Rouge), the Board of Administrators of the Charity Hospital of Louisiana at New Orleans, the General Manager of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, the State Warden of the Penitentiary, the Board of Directors of the Soldiers' Home of the State of Louisiana (Camp Nicholls), the Tuberculosis Commission for the State of Louisiana, as to the management and administration of the Greenwell Springs Tuberculosis Hospital and any other tuberculosis sanitariums, and the boards of all other State hospitals and institutions, except institutions of learning; providing for the administration, management and operation of all State hospitals and other institutions of the State, except institutions of learning; defining the organization, powers and duties of the Department; providing for the qualifications, terms of office, methods of appointment, compensation, duties and powers of the Director and Boards of the Department; transferring functions, records, properties and employees; prescribing methods and procedures; abolishing superseded agencies; repealing inconsistent provisions; act immediately effective.
Approved by the Governor: June 30, 1942.
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ACT No. 163. AN ACT To amend and re-enact the Title and Sections 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 of Act No. 10 of the Extraordinary Session of 1935, as amended by Act 88 of 1936, as amended by Act 5 of 1938, said Act No. 10 of the Extraordinary Session of 1935 being entitled: "An Act to levy an annual franchise tax on all corporations for the privilege of carrying on, doing business, the exercising of their charters, or the continuance of their charters, within this State; to provide for reports to the Secretary of State by said corporations, and providing for the determination and summary collection of said tax; providing for the exemption of certain corporations; providing for the seizure and sale of property of delinquent tax debtors hereunder; providing funds for the enforcement of this Act; providing penalties for failure to comply with the provisions of this Act, providing for a lien and privilege on the property of delinquents, and providing for the disposition of said tax when collected"; and to repeal any and all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith.
Approved by the Governor: July 10, 1942.
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ACT No. 315. To amend and re-enact Section 145 of the revised statutes of the State of Louisiana of 1870 as amended by Act No. 46 of 1904.
Approved by the Governor: July 13, 1942.
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ACT No. 364. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to Article IV of the Constitution of Louisiana by adding thereto Section 2 (a).
Adopted by the Regular Session of the Legislature of Louisiana for 1942.
