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Dear Mayor Goldsby:

We are in receipt of your request for an Attorney General's opinion concerning liens placed on property owners when tenants fail to pay water bills owed to the town. In other words, you are seeking an opinion on the constitutionality of those provisions of the Town of Amite City Code of Ordinances regarding water rates.

The first question to be answered is whether the city is authorized by state statute to enact such an ordinance. "In Louisiana, no person is entitled to a lien unless specially granted the same by the provision of the statutes of this State . . .". Jessee F.…