PART II.  RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM


§321.  Policy statement


Louisiana's rural areas are a vital element of the state.  In order to mitigate the rapid deterioration of rural health, education, infrastructure, and other systems essential to the socio-economic well-being of Louisiana's rural population, it is necessary that the state encourage and support the creation of a rural development program.  It is therefore declared to be the public policy of this state to develop and enhance the state's rural areas through a rural development fund and a program of rural development.


Acts 1991, No. 396, §1.