§2234.  Prohibition on appropriating or allocating of funds for paying public school funds

No funds of the state shall be appropriated to or be allocated for the use of any parish or city school board for the purpose of paying any deficit arising out of the operations of its public school system, unless at the time that such appropriation or allocation of funds is proposed to be made it is determined by the Division of Administration that the parish or city school board has levied and is collecting the full five mill tax authorized to be levied by Article XII, Section 15 FIRST of the Constitution¹ and also five mills of the seven mill tax authorized to be levied by Article XII, Section 15 FOURTH of the Constitution,² or unless at the time that such appropriation or allocation of funds is proposed to be made it is determined by the Division of Administration that the parish or city school board has levied and is collecting a one cent sales tax in lieu of the five mills of the seven mill tax authorized to be levied by Article XII, Section 15 FOURTH of the Constitution and that the sales tax so levied shall equal or exceed the said five mills tax, and also has levied and is collecting at least five mills of the twelve mills of ad valorem taxes authorized by the constitutional provisions hereinabove referred to.

Added by Acts 1961, No. 61, §1.  Amended by Acts 1962, No. 249, §1; Acts 1963, No. 62, §1.

¹LSA-Const.1921, Art. 12, §15 FIRST (see, now, LSA-Const. Art. 8, §13(C) First).

²LSA-Const.1921, Art. 12, §15 FOURTH (see, now, LSA-Const. Art. 8, §13(C) Third).