Rs 33 3004

RS 33:3004 - Bicentennial commissions; expenses A. All municipalities and parishes of the state which have heretofore created or which hereinafter create a municipal or parish bicentennial commission are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate such funds, as said creating authorities may deem fit and proper, to said commissions for expenses incurred by the members thereof in the performance of their duties; provided, however, that such funds shall be appropriated solely to pay the actual expenses of commission members and shall not be used to pay per diem or other compensation to such members. B. In addition to and in furtherance of the provisions of Subsection A hereof, said local governing bodies may receive and expend, on a matching fund basis or otherwise, any federal, state and local monies which may be made available to said governing authorities for the purposes set forth in the resolutions creating such bicentennial commissions. Added by Acts 1974, No. 125, §1, emerg. eff. July 9, 1974 at 2:35 P.M.