Louisiana Constitution of 1921
ARTICLE XIV.
PAROCHIAL AND MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS
Section 1. The General Assembly may establish and organize new parishes, which shall be bodies corporate, with such powers as may be prescribed by law; but no new parish shall contain less than six hundred and twenty-five square miles (625), nor less than seven thousand inhabitants (7000); nor shall any parish be reduced below that area or number of inhabitants.
Section 2. All laws changing parish lines or removing parish seats shall, before taking effect, be submitted to the electors of the parish or the parishes to be affected thereby, at a special election held for that purpose, and be adopted by a majority of votes of each parish cast at such election.
Section 4. Any parish may be dissolved and merged by the General Assembly into a contiguous parish or parishes, two-thirds of the qualified electors of the parish proposed to be dissolved voting in favor thereof, at an election held for that purpose; provided, that each of the parishes into which the dissolved parish proposes to become incorporated consents thereto by a majority of its qualified electors voting therefor.
Section 5. Whenever a parish shall be enlarged or created from territory contiguous thereto, it shall be entitled to a just proportion of the property and assets and liable for a just proportion of the existing debts or liabilities of the parish or parishes from which such territory shall be taken.
Adopted in convention at the city of Baton Rouge, June 18, 1921
