RS 25:380.10: Establishment and location; purpose and use

A. The Edward Douglass White Historic Site is established as a facility in the parish of Lafourche under the overall jurisdiction of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, office of the state museum, as more specifically provided in R.S. 25:342.

B. The Edward Douglass White Historic Site shall be a prehistorical, historical, cultural, scientific, and technological educational institution whose primary purpose shall be to research, collect, preserve, and present, as an educational resource, documents, artifacts, objects of art, buildings, and landscape and the like that reflect the social, political, and legal history, cultural history, natural history, and culture of Louisiana emphasizing the southern region of Louisiana.