Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 7 - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Part XXXIX - Forestry
Chapter 11 - Rural Fire Protection
Section XXXIX-1101 - State Excess Property Program
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code XXXIX-1101
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. The Department of Agriculture and Forestry, through the Office of Forestry, shall use the following procedures for the assignment of state surplus property to local governments or duly organized and officially recognized fire organizations to be utilized in suppressing or providing protection from fires in rural areas.
1. This program shall be called the State
Surplus Property Program (hereinafter "the program").
2. The state forester, or his designee, shall
be the "program coordinator" and responsible for coordinating with local
governments or duly organized and officially recognized fire organizations for
the assignment of state surplus property under the program.
3. In order to be eligible to participate in
the program, local governments or duly organized and officially recognized fire
organizations must submit an application in writing to the program coordinator,
Alexander State Forest, Box 298, Woodworth, LA 71485. The application must
contain the name, address and phone number of the applicant and must state in
detail the specific equipment sought by the applicant. All applications will be
date stamped as of the date received in the office of the program coordinator
and will be checked to verify the applicant's eligibility to participate in the
program.
4. The department shall
maintain a list of applicants which shall be divided into three categories of
requested property:
a. vans and pickups up to
3/4 ton;
b. pickups 1 ton or larger
and larger trucks; and
c. all other
types of equipment not included in Categories (Subparagraphs) a and
b.
5. Following receipt
and verification of eligibility, the applicant's name and the date the
application was received shall be placed on the list in the appropriate
category or categories.
6. As
equipment becomes available, the program coordinator will assign the property
to the applicants in the following manner:
a.
first priority shall be given to newly formed departments;
b. second priority shall be given to
established departments that have not previously received property under the
program;
c. third priority shall be
given to established departments that have previously received property under
the program;
d. should two or more
applicants have equal priority under the order set forth above, the property
shall be assigned based on the date the applications of those equal applicants
was received by the program coordinator;
e. should two or more applicants have equal
priority under the order set forth above, the property shall be assigned to the
applicant who can demonstrate to the program coordinator the greatest need for
the property.
7.
Applicants shall be removed from the list upon assignment of property, or two
years from the date their application was received by the program coordinator.
Applicants shall be entitled to a two-year extension of their original
application, provided that the program coordinator receives a written request
from the applicant 60 days prior to the expiration of the original application.
Applications extended pursuant to this Section shall maintain the same priority
as the original application.
8. The
assignment and the cooperative endeavor between the Office of Forestry and
local governments or duly organized and officially recognized fire
organizations shall be evidenced by a written agreement.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 3:2.
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