ACT No. 540
House Bill No. 1221. By: Messrs. Nunez and Schoenberger and Senator Gravolet.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to Section 31 of Article VII of the Constitution of Louisiana to provide an additional judicial district in the state, to be designated as the Thirty-Second Judicial District, to be composed of the parish of St. Bernard; to provide that the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District shall be composed of the parish of Plaquemines; to provide that the incumbent judge of Division "B" of the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District shall serve as judge of the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District for the term for which he was elected and shall be succeeded by a person who shall be duly elected or selected in accordance with law as the judge of the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District; to provide that the other judge or judges of the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District who are elected or selected to office at the time this constitutional amendment becomes effective shall serve as judges of the Thirty-Second Judicial District for the term for which they were elected, and thereafter there shall be one judge of the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District elected or selected in accordance with law; and to provide for the district attorneys for the Twenty-Fifth and Thirty-Second Judicial Districts.
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 by law, a proposal to amend Section 31 of Article VII of the Constitution of Louisiana, so that the same may be made to read as follows:
§ 31. Judicial districts
Section 31. A. There shall be thirty-two 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 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 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 Seventeenth 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 parish of 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.
The parishes of Beauregard and Vernon shall compose the Thirtieth District.
The parishes of Jefferson Davis and Allen shall compose the Thirty-First District.
The parish of St. Bernard shall compose the Thirty-Second District.
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Section 3. This proposed amendment shall be submitted to the electors of the state of Louisiana at the next election for Representatives in Congress to be held in Louisiana on the first Tuesday next following the first Monday of November, 1964.
Section 4. On the official ballot to be used at said election there shall be printed:
FOR the proposed amendment to Article VII, Section 31 of the Louisiana Constitution, to create the Thirty-Second Judicial District to be composed of the parish of St. Bernard.
and also:
AGAINST the proposed amendment to Article VII, Section 31 of the Louisiana Constitution, to create the Thirty-Second Judicial District to be composed of the parish of St. Bernard.
Each elector voting on the proposition for so amending the Constitution shall indicate his vote relative thereto in the manner provided by the General Election Laws of the state of Louisiana.
A true copy:
WADE 0. MARTIN, JR.
Secretary of State
