§ 13-39. Fire protection district no. 5.

(a)

Creation. There is hereby created a fire protection district within the parish which district shall comprise and embrace all of that territory within the following described boundaries:

Beginning at the intersection of the centerline of the Whitney Canal (eastern boundary of the City of Gretna) and the Jefferson-Orleans Parish line; thence in a southwesterly direction along the centerline of the Whitney Canal, as it crosses the Industry Canal and becomes the Verret Canal; thence continuing in a southwesterly direction along the centerline of the Verret Canal as it crosses Bayou Fatima and forms the Trapp Canal; thence in a southerly direction along the centerline of the Trapp Canal to its intersection with the Jefferson-Plaquemines Parish boundary line (Bayou Barataria); thence in a northeasterly direction along the Jefferson-Plaquemines Parish boundary line to its intersection with the Jefferson-Orleans Parish boundary line; thence in a northerly direction along the Jefferson-Orleans Parish boundary line to its intersection with the Whitney Canal (eastern boundary of the City of Gretna), as projected, the point of beginning.

(b)

Official designation. The first protection district created in subsection (a) shall be known and designated as "Fire Protection District No. 5 of the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana."

(Code 1961, §§ 7-12, 7-13)