TITLE 17. EDUCATION

CHAPTER 26. COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
PART X. RESEARCH PARK CORPORATION

17:3396      Purpose

  The Louisiana Legislature recognizes that economic development can be fostered by the encouragement of advanced technologies and better employment opportunities and that Louisiana must promote research and economic development opportunities through the encouragement of high technology. The legislature therefor authorizes the establishment of the Research Park Corporation as a public, nonprofit corporation authorized to create, develop, construct, operate, manage, and finance a research and development park in cooperation with the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, the Board of Supervisors of Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, and the governing authority of the appropriate municipality or parish.

Added by Acts 1992, No. 882, Sec. 1.