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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 135
BY SENATORS MORRELL AND MURRAY AND REPRESENTATI VE LEGER
LOCAL ELECTIONS. Changes the dates for certain municipal and parochial elections.
(8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 18:402(D)(2), relative to the election code; to provide for certain2
municipal and parochial elections; to provide for dates for elections to be held in3
2014; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 18:402(D)(2) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:6
ยง402. Dates of primary and general elections7
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D. Parochial and municipal elections in a parish containing a municipality9
with a population of three hundred thousand or more. Elections for parochial and10
municipal officers in a parish containing a municipality with a population of three11
hundred thousand or more shall be held every four years, beginning in 2006, as12
follows:13
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(2) General elections for parochial and municipal officers shall be held on the15
fourth Saturday after the first Saturday in February of an election year except for16
2014, when the general elections for parochial and municipal officers shall be17 SB NO. 135
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held on the third Saturday in March.1
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Lauren Bailey.
DIGEST
Morrell (SB 135)
Present law provides that general elections for parochial and municipal officers in a parish
containing a municipality with a population of 300,000 or more will be held on the fourth
Saturday after the first Saturday in February of an election year.
Proposed law retains present law and provides that in 2014 general elections for parochial
and municipal officers will be held on the third Saturday in March.
Effective August 1, 2012.
(Amends R.S. 18:402(D)(2))