HLS 16RS-2116 ORIGINAL
2016 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 1097
BY REPRESENTATIVE HAVARD
ASSESSORS: Authorizes an automobile expense allowance for the assessors in East
Feliciana and West Feliciana Parishes
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 47:1925.11, relative to expenses of assessors; to authorize an
3 automobile expense allowance for the assessors in East Feliciana and West Feliciana
4 Parishes; to provide for certain limitations and requirements; and to provide for
5 related matters.
6 Notice of intention to introduce this Act has been published
7 as provided by Article III, Section 13 of the Constitution of
8 Louisiana.
9Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
10 Section 1. R.S. 47:1925.11 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
11 ยง1925.11. Webster Parish, East Feliciana Parish, and West Feliciana Parish
12 Assessment District Districts; automobile expense allowance
13 In the Webster Parish, East Feliciana Parish, and West Feliciana Parish
14 Assessment District Districts, the assessor may receive an automobile expense
15 allowance equal to fifteen percent of his annual salary provided the assessor
16 maintains three hundred thousand dollars of automobile insurance per accident for
17 bodily injury and one hundred thousand dollars of automobile insurance per accident
18 for property damage. The expense allowance shall come from existing funds in the
19 assessor's office and at no additional expense to the state or local governing
20 authority.
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are additions. HLS 16RS-2116 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 1097
DIGEST
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part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 1097 Original 2016 Regular Session Havard
Abstract: Authorizes an automobile expense allowance for the assessors in East Feliciana
and West Feliciana Parishes equal to 15% of the assessor's salary to be paid from
existing funds of the assessor's office.
Present law authorizes an automobile expense allowance for the assessor in Webster Parish.
The allowance is equal to 15% of the assessor's annual salary and payable out of existing
funds of the assessor's office, provided the assessor maintains $300,000 of automobile
insurance per accident for bodily injury and $100,000 of automobile insurance per accident
for property damage.
Proposed law retains present law as it relates to the assessor in Webster Parish but adds
authorization for the assessors in East Feliciana and West Feliciana Parishes to have an
automobile expense allowance as provided for in present law.
Proposed law adds a limitation for the assessors in Webster, East Feliciana, and West
Feliciana Parishes that the expense allowance shall be funded by the assessor at no additional
expense to the state or local governing authority.
(Amends R.S. 47:1925.11)
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