ENROLLED
ACT No. 112
2016 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 389
BY REPRESENTATIVE JONES
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 13:2488.1(A), relative to the City Court of the town of Franklin;
3 to provide relative to the territorial jurisdiction of the court; and to provide for
4 related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 13:2488.1(A) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง2488.1. City Court of Franklin; officials and employees; provisions governing
8 A.(1) Effective September 1, 1968 the offices of the justice of the peace and
9 constable in Ward Three of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, and the Mayor's Court in the
10 town of Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, are abolished and there is hereby
11 established and created a court to be styled the City Court of the town of Franklin,
12 Louisiana, the.
13 (2)(a) The territorial jurisdiction of which the court shall extend throughout
14 the town of Franklin, Louisiana and throughout the whole of Ward Three of St. Mary
15 Parish, Louisiana.
16 (b) In addition to the area provided in Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph,
17 the territorial jurisdiction of the court shall extend throughout the portions of Ward
18 Ten of St. Mary Parish that are east of the Charenton Drainage and Navigation Canal
19 and south of Bayou Teche. In such portions of Ward Ten that are outside of the town
20 of Franklin, the court shall have jurisdiction concurrent with the justice of the peace
21 in those cases in which the justice of the peace would have jurisdiction.
22 (3) The court shall be composed of a city judge, a marshal and a clerk of said
23 the court. The offices of city judge and marshal shall be filled initially by election
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1 by the qualified electors of Ward Three of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana at the general
2 election for Representatives in Congress to be held in Louisiana on the first Tuesday
3 next following the first Monday in November, 1968. The city judge and marshal
4 then elected shall serve a term to commence on January 1, 1969 and they shall serve
5 until their successors are elected at the congressional election of 1972, and successor
6 judges and marshals shall be elected at the congressional election every six years
7 thereafter. The court shall be domiciled in Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana.
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SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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