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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 593
BY SENATOR CROWE
MUNICIPALITIES. Limits the number of terms of office of any elected official of certain
municipalities. (gov sig)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 33:383.3, relative to municipal governing authorities; to provide for limitation2
of terms of elected officials; to provide for an election; to provide for an effective3
date; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 33:383.3 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง383.3. Municipal governing authorities; limitation of terms of elected7
officials; referendum8
The governing authority of a municipality having a population between9
two thousand five hundred and five thousand within a parish having a10
population between two hundred thousand and two hundred fifty thousand,11
based on the latest federal decennial census, may enact an ordinance limiting12
the number of terms of office which any elected official of the municipality may13
serve to two consecutive terms in the same office. Any ordinance herein14
authorized shall become effective only after the question of such term limitation15
has been submitted to and approved by a majority of the qualified electors of16
the municipality who vote on the proposition at a regularly scheduled primary17 SB NO. 593
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or general election held in accordance with the Louisiana Election Code.1
Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not2
signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature3
by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If4
vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become5
effective on the day following such approval.6
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Michael Bell.
DIGEST
Crowe (SB 593)
Proposed law authorizes the governing authority of a municipality having a population
between 2,500 and 5,000 within a parish having a population between 200,000 and 250,000
based on the latest federal decennial census to enact an ordinance limiting the number of
terms of office any elected official of the municipality may serve to two consecutive terms
in the same office.
Proposed law provides for the ordinance to become effective only after the question of such
term limitation has been submitted to and approved by a majority of the qualified electors
of the municipality who voted on the proposition at a regularly scheduled primary or general
election held in accordance with the Louisiana Election Code.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time of gubernatorial action.
(Adds R.S. 33:383.3)