ACT No. 560.
House Bill No. 456.
By Messrs. Fernandez and Dugas.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to Section 31 of Article VII of the Constitution of Louisiana, relative to the judicial districts of the State, and providing for the appointment by the Governor of Louisiana of a district attorney for the Twenty Ninth Judicial District, newly created, for the remainder of the term, and further providing that the present occupants of the judicial offices in said district shall serve their respective terms out or until their successors shall have been elected and qualified.
Section 1. Be it Resolved by the Legislature of Louisiana, two-thirds of the members elected to each House concurring, that there shall be submitted to the electors of the State of Louisiana, for their approval or rejection, in the manner provided for by law, a proposition to amend Section 31 of Article VII of the Constitution of Louisiana, so that said section shall read as follows:
Section 31. Judicial districts. There shall be twenty-nine judicial districts in the State, the Parish of Orleans excepted, and each district shall be composed as follows:
The Parish of Caddo shall compose the First District.
The Parishes of Jackson, Claiborne and Bienville shall compose the Second District.
The Parishes of Lincoln and Union shall compose the Third District.
The Parishes of Ouachita and Morehouse shall compose the Fourth District.
The Parishes of West Carroll, Richland and Franklin shall compose the Fifth District.
The Parishes of East Carroll, Madison and Tensas shall compose the Sixth District.
The Parishes of Catahoula and Concordia shall compose the Seventh District.
The Parishes of Grant and Winn shall compose the Eighth District.
The Parish of Rapides shall compose the Ninth District.
The Parishes of Natchitoches and Red River shall compose the Tenth District.
The Parishes of DeSoto, Vernon and Sabine shall compose the Eleventh District.
The Parish of Avoyelles shall compose the Twelfth District.
The Parish of Evangeline shall compose the Thirteenth District.
The Parishes of Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Allen, Beauregard and Cameron shall compose the Fourteenth District.
The Parishes of Acadia, Lafayette and Vermilion shall compose the Fifteenth District.
The Parishes of St. Mary, Iberia and St. Martin shall compose the Sixteenth District.
The Parishes of Terrebonne and Lafourche shall compose the Seventeeth District.
The Parishes of Iberville, West Baton Rouge and Pointe Coupee shall compose the Eighteenth District.
The Parish of East Baton Rouge shall compose the Nineteenth District.
The Parishes of East Feliciana and West Feliciana shall compose the Twentieth District.
The Parishes of Tangipahoa, Livingston and St. Helena shall compose the Twenty-First District.
The Parishes of Washington and St. Tammany shall compose the Twenty-Second District.
The Parishes of Assumption, Ascension and St. James shall compose the Twenty-Third District.
The Parish of Jefferson shall compose the Twenty-Fourth District.
The Parishes of St. Bernard and Plaquemines shall compose the Twenty-Fifth District.
The Parishes of Bossier and Webster shall compose the Twenty-Sixth District.
The Parish of St. Landry shall compose the Twenty-Seventh District.
The Parishes of LaSalle and Caldwell shall compose the Twenty-Eighth District.
The Parishes of St. John the Baptist and St. Charles shall compose the Twenty-Ninth District.
There shall be two judges of the 24th Judicial District. The additional judge shall be elected when this amendment takes effect, to serve for a term concurrent with the district judge now in office, and thereafter he shall be elected at the same time as is provided for the district judges. District Judge of the 24th District, elected at the time of the adoption of this amendment, who resides in the newly created 24th Judicial District, shall be the other Judge of said District for the regular term for which he was elected; and the Judge of the 24th District, elected at the time of the adoption of this amendment, who resides in the newly created 29th Judicial District, shall be the Judge of said District for the regular term for which he was elected.
STATE OF LOUISIANA
AMENDMENTS TO THE
CONSTITUTION
Effective December 8, 1950
NOTE: The above was No. 18 on the ballots voted on throughout the State on November 7, 1950, and carried by the following vote:
FOR ............... ..................... .... 137,969
AGAINST ............................ ....... 95,890