Zombie Ho-Zone

We always figured it would be back.  Pope Mitch doesn't like listening to the little people who yell at him.

Legal Notices

PUBLIC NOTICE (NOTICE OF INTENTION TO INTRODUCE BILL) Public notice is hereby given that there may be introduced at the session of the Legislature to be convened on April 8, 2013, a bill relative to assessments that are levied by a comprehensive membership based tourism organization on some or all of its members that operate hotels or motels in Orleans Parish; calculated by reference either to room occupancy or room sales; and for the general purposes of the organization or otherwise for the direct or indirect benefit of economic development, hospitality infrastructure or services, and/or tourism growth; to provide for levying such assessments as surcharges on hotel or motel folios; and to provide for related matters.

H/T Lunanola 

Update:  See also

PUBLIC NOTICE (NOTICE OF INTENTION TO INTRODUCE BILL) Public notice is hereby given, as provided by Article III, Section 13 of the Constitution of Louisiana, that there may be introduced at the session of the Legislature to be convened on April 8, 2013, a bill or bills relative to the City of New Orleans: to authorize the governing authority to levy and collect a hotel and/or motel occupancy tax, a food and beverage tax; and provide for the use of the tax; and provide for related matters. 

In addition to all the nasty implications of the Hospitality Zone we looked at last year, these are proposals for local service taxes that may be levied on top of Bobby Jindal's plan to slam Louisiana residents with the highest sales taxes in the country.