Livingston Parish

Shall Fire Protection District No. 4 of Livingston Parish, Louisiana (the "District"), levy a special tax of ten (10) mills on all property subject to taxation within the District for a period of ten (10) years, beginning with the year 2005 and ending with the year 2014, for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, improving, maintaining and/or operating fire protection and emergency medical service facilities, vehicles and equipment, including both movable and immovable property, and to pay the costs of obtaining water for fire hydrant purposes, including charges for fire hydrant rentals and services, said tax to be a continuation and rededication of a ten (10) mills tax authorized to be levied through the year 2004 pursuant to an election held on October 1, 1994?

Shall Fire Protection District No. 4 of Livingston Parish, Louisiana (the "District"), be authorized to continue to collect a service charge in an amount of $32.00 per annum for a period of ten (10) years, beginning with the year 2007 and ending with the year 2016, for each residential or commercial structure, to be assessed persons owning each such structure, whether occupied or unoccupied, located wholly or partly within the boundaries of the District, and persons owning the ground upon which each such structure is situated, for fire protection services, all as provided in R.S. 40:1502.1?

Shall Sales Tax District No. 33 (Maurepas) of the Parish School Board of the Parish of Livingston, State of Louisiana (the "District"), under the provisions of Article VI, Section 29 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana of 1974, Section 2721.6 of Title 33 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended, and other constitutional and statutory authority, be authorized to levy and collect a tax of one percent (1%) (the "Tax") upon the sale at retail, the use, the lease or rental, the consumption, and the storage for use or consumption, of tangible personal property and on sales of services within the District, inclusive, with the proceeds of the Tax (after paying the reasonable and necessary expenses of collecting and administering the Tax), to be dedicated and used to pay a portion of the costs of operating and maintaining public schools and facilities within the District, and acquiring the necessary equipment and furnishings therefor?

Shall School District No. 33 (Maurepas), of the Parish of Livingston, Louisiana (the "District"), incur debt and issue bonds in the amount of One Million Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($1,750,000), to run twenty (20) years from date thereof, with interest at a rate or rates not exceeding eight per centum (8%) per annum, for the purpose of purchasing, constructing, erecting and/or improving the Maurepas High School building and school related facilities within and for the District, and acquiring the necessary equipment and furnishings therefor, including but not limited to: constructing and acquiring additional classrooms; providing for renovations and additions to cafeteria, kitchen and administrative offices, and for electrical upgrades, title to which shall be in the public; said bonds will be general obligations of the District and will be payable from ad valorem taxes to be levied and collected in the manner provided by Article VI, Section 33 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana of 1974 and statutory authority supplemental thereto?

Shall School District No. 4 of the Parish of Livingston, State of Louisiana be authorized to incur debt and issue general obligation bonds in the amount of Twelve Million Dollars ($12,000,000), to be outstanding for a period of twenty (20) years from the date thereof, with interest at a rate not exceeding six and one-half percent (6.5%) per annum, for the acquisition of land for and construction of new school sites; renovation, expansion and equipping of existing school buildings and other school related facilities within the District, including equipment, furnishings, fixtures and other improvements thereon incidental or necessary in connection therewith, which bonds will be general obligations of the District and will be payable from ad valorem taxes in an amount sufficient to pay principal and interest and redemption premiums, if any, on such bonds as they mature, to be levied and collected in the manner provided by Article VI, Section 33 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana of 1974 and statutory authority supplemental thereto?

Shall the Town of Springfield, State of Louisiana (the "Town"), under the provisions of Article VI, Section 29 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana of 1974, and other constitutional and statutory authority, be authorized to levy and collect a tax of one-half of one percent (1/2%) (the "Tax"), upon the sale at retail, the use, the lease or rental, the consumption, and the storage for use or consumption of tangible personal property, and on sales of services within the Town, with the avails or proceeds of the Tax (after paying the reasonable and necessary costs and expenses of collecting and administering the Tax) to be dedicated for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, extending, improving, maintaining and operating sewerage collection, disposal and treatment facilities and other capital improvements for the Town with the proceeds of the Tax being subject to funding into bonds to pay costs of acquiring, constructing, extending and improving capital improvements for the Town to the extent and in the manner provided by the laws of Louisiana, particularly Sub-Part F, Part III, Chapter 4, Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended?

To provide that marriage in this state shall consist of the union of one man and one woman, that legal incidents of marriage shall not be conferred on a member of any union other than such union, and that the state shall not validate or recognize a legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals or any marriage contracted in any other jurisdiction which is not the union of one man and one woman. (Adds Article XII, Section 15)