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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 789
BY SENATOR HEBERT
ELECTED OFFICIALS. Provides for qualification by judges for certain elected offices.
(8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 42:39(B), relative to elected or appointed officials; to provide2
for ineligibility to become a candidate for other elective office; to make technical3
corrections; and to provide for related matters. 4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 42:39(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 6
ยง39. Judges; ineligibility to become candidate for other elective office; conditions7
and exceptions 8
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B. The provisions of Subsection (A) of this section Section shall not be10
construed as prohibiting any person from resigning from his office as judge of any11
court for the purpose of becoming a candidate for nomination or election to any12
national, state or local elective office for which he is qualified and eligible; provided,13
however, that the resignation of any such person shall be and is made not less than14
twenty-four hours prior to the date on which he qualifies as a candidate for15
nomination or election to the office to which he seeks nomination or election.16
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SLS 10RS-1771 ORIGINAL
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Michelle Ducharme.
DIGEST
Present law prohibits a judge from holding or becoming eligible as a candidate for national,
state or local office. Provides that present law not be construed as prohibiting a judge from
resigning his office to become a candidate provided the resignation occurs not less than 24
hours prior to qualification as a candidate.
Proposed law makes technical corrections in present law.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Amends R.S. 42:39(B))