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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 29
BY SENATOR MORRELL
ASSESSORS. Provides for the assessor elected in Orleans Parish to take office on July first.
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AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 47:1901(B), relative to the Orleans Parish assessor; to provide2
that the tax assessor for Orleans Parish shall take office on July first of the year in3
which he is elected; and to provide for related matters.4
Notice of intention to introduce this Act has been published.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 47:1901(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 7
ยง1901. Election8
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B. At the local municipal election held every four years, there shall be elected10
in Orleans Parish by the qualified voters thereof, one tax assessor, who shall hold11
office for four years from and after the thirty-first first day of December July of the12
year in which he is elected.13
Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not14
signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature15
by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If16
vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become17 SB NO. 29
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effective on the day following such approval.1
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Alden A. Clement, Jr.
DIGEST
Present law provides that the Orleans Parish tax assessor takes office on December 31 of the
year in which he is elected.
Proposed law provides that the Orleans Parish tax assessor takes office on July 1 of the year
in which he is elected.
Proposed law otherwise retains present law.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Amends R.S. 47:1901(B))