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Judicial District Boundary Law in Louisiana: 1926

1926

Louisiana Acts of 1926, Joint Resolution

1926 Jul. 13, Act 79, page 96

JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to Section 31 of Article VII of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana relative to the judicial districts of the State.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Legislature of Louisiana, two-thirds of all the members elected to each house concurring, that Section 31 of Article VII of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Section 31. There shall be twenty-six judicial districts in the State, the Parish of Orleans excepted, and each district shall be composed as follows, to-wit:
The Parish of Caddo shall compose the First District.
The parishes of Claiborne and Bienville shall compose the Second District.
The parishes of Lincoln, Jackson 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 Caldwell, Winn and LaSalle shall compose the Eighth District.
The parishes of Rapides and Grant 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 parishes of St. Landry and 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 Seventeenth District.
The parishes of Iberville, West Baton Rouge and Point 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 parishes of Jefferson, St. John the Baptist and St. Charles 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.