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ACT No. 96. AN ACT To provide a Police Pension Fund for the Police Department of the City of New Orleans; creating a Board of Trustees of the Police Pension Fund for the City of New Orleans for the administration, management, control and operation of said Fund; providing for the pensioning of the officers, members and employees of the Police Department in the City of New Orleans, their widows, children and widowed mothers; providing for retirement from service and for payment of benefits; providing for the assumption of obligations of all pensions . . .
Approved by the Governor: June 25, 1948.
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ACT No. 125. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 6 of Act No. 42 of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, for the year 1890, as amended and re-enacted by Act 138 of 1896, as amended and re-enacted by Act No. 187 of 1902, entitled: "An Act relative to the Notaries Public for the Parish of Orleans, and regulating their appointment, bond, qualifications, duties and operations, providing for the testing of said bonds and prescribing certain penalties"; and to repeal all laws in conflict herewith.
Approved by the Governor: June 25, 1948.
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ACT No. 227. AN ACT Providing for voluntary surrender for the purpose of adoption of a child under seventeen (17) years of age born in or out of wedlock; for procedure for declaring a child abandoned; for appointment of a legal custodian; for the placement of children for adoption; for the repeal of existing laws.
Approved by the Governor: July 1, 1948.
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ACT No. 234. AN ACT To amend and reenact Section 3; Section 4, subparagraphs (1) and (k); Section 9; and Section 12 of Act 159 of the Legislature of the State of Louisiana for the year 1912, (as amended by Act 338 of 1936) entitled: "An Act to incorporate the City of New Orleans; to provide a Commission form of Government for the administration of the affairs of said city; to provide for an initiative, referendum and recall, and for the manner and mode of exercising and submitting same, and providing penalties for the violations of any of the provisions of this Act in reference to same; to submit this Act to the . . .
Approved by the Governor: July 1, 1948.
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ACT No. 301. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Sections 21, 23 and 24 of Act 6 of the Extra Session of 1899, as amended, by Act 111 of 1902, as amended by Act 230 of 1936 and as amended by Act 140 of 1940, entitled: "An Act to make effective the vote and levy of the special tax by the property taxpayers of the City of New Orleans for water, sewerage and drainage purposes; by authorizing the capitalization of said tax by the issuance of fifty-year bonds of the City of New Orleans under certain conditions and with certain privileges and restrictions, providing for the payment of the principal and interest thereof, for the disposition of the said bonds and the proceeds thereof, and defining the powers and duties of the Board of Liquidation with reference thereto; by constituting and establishing a Sewerage and Water Board for the City . . .
Approved by the Governor: July 5, 1948.
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ACT No. 351. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 4 (as amended by Act No. 51 of the Extra Session of 1921, Act No. 131 of 1926, Act No. 338 of 1936, and Act No. 301 of 1946), Section 9 (as amended by Act No. 338 of 1936 and Act No. 301 of 1946), Section 12 (as amended by Act No. 115 of the Extra Session of 1921, Act No. 214 of 1924, Act No. 338 of 1936 and Act No. 301 of 1946) of Act No. 159 of 1912 entitled: "An Act to incorporate the City of New Orleans; to provide a Commission form of Government for the administration of the affairs of said City; to provide for an initiative, referendum and recall, and the manner and mode of exercising . . .
Approved by the Governor: July 6, 1948.
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ACT No. 362. AN ACT Authorizing the Director of Highways to designate three employees of the Department of Highways, each of whom when so designated shall-be ex-officio a Notary Public and shall have authority, without charge or other compensation, to administer oaths, take acknowledgments, and perform all other duties which any Notary Public is now authorized by law to do, but limiting his official action to acts and instruments to which the Department of Highways or the Director of Highways is a party and to the administration of oaths to affidavits and other documents concerning any matter in which the Department of Highways is interested, and continuing the director's authority should there be a vacancy in any of said offices.
Approved by the Governor: July 6, 1948.
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ACT No. 468. An ACT Relative to Notaries Public for the Parish of Caddo and regulating their appointment, bond, qualifications and suspension; providing for the testing of sureties of said bond; providing for termination of commissions as Notaries Public and provide for prescription of action against Surety, and to repeal all laws inconsistent or in conflict herewith.
Approved by the Governor: July 8, 1948.
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ACT No. 2. AN ACT To amend Sections 50, 51 and 56 of Act No. 224 of 1940, entitled "An Act to preserve the purity of the ballot, regulating the manner of holding and conducting elections, by providing an official form of ballot, by prescribing the time and method in which nominations shall be made and certified, by providing for the division of parishes, cities and towns into convenient election precincts; by providing for the appointment of officers to conduct such elections and defining their duties; by prescribing the manner in which the votes of electors shall be taken; and the count and returns thereof made; . . .
Approved by the Governor: September 26, 1948.
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ACT No. 13. AN ACT Creating the Louisiana Merit System Council and provid ing for the State of Louisiana a system of personnel administration based on merit principles and scientific methods governing the employees of State agencies administering federal funds which by federal law, rules or regulations are required to operate under personnel standards on a merit basis.
Approved by the Governor: September 26, 1948.
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ACT No. 23. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 4 of Act No. 42 of 1890, as amended and re-enacted by Act No. 265 of 1946 entitled: "An Act relative to the Notaries Public of the Parish of Orleans, and regulating their appointment, bond, qualifications, duties and obligations, providing for the testing of said bonds and prescribing certain penalties ;" and to repeal all laws in conflict herewith.
Approved by the Governor: September 26, 1948.
