RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 50 (HB 131) 2015 Regular Session Berthelot
Existing law (R.S. 18:1300.13) prohibits a public officer who has been recalled and removed
from office from being appointed to succeed himself in the office from which he was recalled
and removed. Further prohibits a public officer who has been recalled and removed from
office from being eligible as a candidate at an election called to fill the vacancy created by
the recall of the public officer.
New law additionally provides that if the recalled public officer was removed from office as
a member of the governing authority of a Lawrason Act municipality, he is ineligible as a
candidate at an election to fill a vacancy on the governing authority that is held prior to the
next regularly scheduled election for members of the governing authority following the recall
of the public officer.
Effective August 1, 2015.
(Amends R.S. 18:1300.13(B)(2))