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ACT No. 307 AN ACT To amend Chapter 8A of Title 13 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 by adding thereto a new Part, to be designated as Part III thereof and consisting of R.S. 13:2563.1 through R.S. 2563.17, both inclusive, to amend and reenact Paragraph (23) of Section 51 and Section 513 of Title 16 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 and to enact Subsection C of Section 514 of said Title 16, to establish the Parish Court for the Parish of Ascension, state of Louisiana; to provide for its territorial boundaries, civil, criminal, and juvenile jurisdiction, and limitations on civil jurisdiction; to provide for a judge, his election, qualifications, term, compensation, vacation, powers, authority, duties and functions; to provide for appointment of a court reporter; to provide relative to the functions and duties of certain officials with respect to the court including the district attorney, sheriff and clerk of the district court, and to create the office of third assistant district attorney for the twenty-third judicial district and provide therefor in particular with respect to the parish court; to provide office space for the court; to provide for the collection and disposition of fines and forfeitures, fees and other costs, and to provide for the sheriff's commission on certain of such funds; to establish a judicial expense fund and provide relative to disbursements from such fund; to abolish the mayors' courts of the municipalities of Donaldsonville, Gonzales and Sorrento; to provide for the duties and functions of those municipalities and the parish of Ascension and the state in connection with the parish court; to provide for financing the court; to retain the justice of the peace courts and their officers; to provide for the effectiveness of the Act; and generally and specifically to provide with respect to matters related to the establishment and functions of the Parish Court for the Parish of Ascension, state of Louisiana.
Approved: July 31, 1976.
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ACT No. 84 AN ACT To amend and reenact Articles 4832 and 4833 of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure and to repeal Article 4834 of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure and Subsection B of Section 51 of Article 7 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1921, made statutory by Paragraph 5 of Section 16 of Article XIV of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, relative to city courts, to increase the civil jurisdiction of each city court with a territorial jurisdiction that has a population of less than ten thousand; to increase the civil jurisdiction of each city court, with a territorial jurisdiction that has a population of ten thousand or more; to provide for appeals therefrom; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.
Approved: July 9, 1976.
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ACT No. 547 AN ACT To appropriate the sum of Two Hundred and no/100 ($200.00) Dollars out of the General Fund of the state of Louisiana for the fiscal year 1976-1977 to pay the sum of Fifty and no/100 ($50.00) Dollars to the Estate of Joe 0. Adams for refund of the filing fee deposited by him as a candidate for Justice of the Peace, Ward One, East Feliciana Parish and to pay the sum of One Hundred Fifty and no/100 ($150.00) Dollars to Dowie Gendron for refund of the filing fee deposited by him as a candidate for assessor in St. John the Baptist Parish, both pursuant to R.S. 18:395.
Approved : August 3, 1976.
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ACT No. 697 AN ACT To amend and reenact the entirety of Title 18 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, except for those chapters presently designated as Chapter 8: Political Contributions or Other Activity, and Chapter 9: Registrars of Voters Employees' Retirement System; all relative to elections, to redesignate said Title 18 ELECTIONS as Title 18 LOUISIANA ELECTION CODE and to redesignate said Chapters 8 and 9 as Chapters 11 and 12, respectively; all in order toprovide, in conformity with the mandate contained in Article XI, Section 1 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, an election code for the state of Louisiana, including particularly the laws governing matters relating to the registration of voters; the nomination and election of public officials of the state and its political subdivisions and election districts, national elections, voting and voting machines, including absentee voting, contests and challenges, election offenses and civil remedies and criminal penalties; to provide for the severability of provisions of this Act and of the code hereby adopted; to repeal certain designated laws and all other laws inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of the election code hereby enacted; to provide that the provisions of this Act shall prevail over any other Act adopted by the legislature prior to January 1, 1978; to provide the effective date of this election code,and otherwise generally and specifically to provide with respect to matters pertaining to the above.
Approved : August 5, 1976.