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2016 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 405
BY SENATOR LAMBERT
ELECTED OFFICIALS. Creates an exemption to the dual officeholding and dual
employment law to allow a full-time deputy assessor to hold elective office as municipal
councilman. (8/1/16)
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 42:66(Q), relative to dual officeholding; to provide relative to exceptions
3 involving persons employed in a deputy assessor capacity; to provide for the
4 applicability of an exception relative to deputy assessors; and to provide for related
5 matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 42:66(Q) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
8 ยง66. Exemptions
9 * * *
10 Q. Nothing in this Part shall be construed to prevent a person employed
11 as a full-time deputy assessor from holding at the same time an elective office
12 as municipal councilman.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by J. Ashley Mitchell Carter.
DIGEST
SB 405 Original 2016 Regular Session Lambert
Present law regulates dual officeholding and dual employment in order to prevent conflicts
of interest and to promote and maintain citizen trust in government. Prohibits a person from
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holding certain offices and employment at the same time.
Present law prohibits a person holding office or employment in one branch of state
government from at the same time holding another office or employment in any other branch
of state government.
Present law prohibits a person who holds an elective office in state government from at the
same time holding another elective office, a full-time appointive office, or employment in
state government or in the government of a political subdivision.
Present law prohibits a person holding an elective office in a political subdivision from at
the same time holding another elective office or full-time appointive office in state
government or in the government of a political subdivision. Provides that no such person
will hold at the same time employment in state government, or in the same political
subdivision in which he holds an elective office. Provides further that no sheriff, assessor,
or clerk of court will hold any office or employment under a parish governing authority or
school board, nor will any member of any parish governing authority or school board hold
any office or employment with any sheriff, assessor, or clerk of court.
Present law prohibits a person holding a full-time appointive office or full-time employment
in state government or a political subdivision from at the same time holding another
full-time appointive office or full-time employment in state government, in the government
of a political subdivision, or in a combination of these.
Present law, in addition to the above prohibitions, provides for certain incompatible offices
and positions based on the authority and duties of each office or positions.
Proposed law retains present law but provides for an exception to allow persons employed
full-time as a deputy assessor to, at the same time, hold elective office as a municipal
councilman.
Effective August 1, 2016.
(Adds R.S. 42:66(Q))
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