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HB 23 Original 2020 Regular Session Bagley
Abstract: Eliminates the age limit for all justices of the peace.
Present law provides that beginning in the year 2008, to qualify to run for the office of justice of the
peace, a person shall not have attained the age of seventy years by the date of qualification to run for
office.
Present law further provides that a justice of the peace who attains seventy years of age while serving
a term of office shall be allowed to complete that term of office.
Present law also provides that the present law provision shall not apply to those justices of the peace
who are serving as a justice of the peace or elected to the office of justice of the peace on or before
Aug. 15, 2006.
Proposed law eliminates the age limit for all justices of the peace.
(Amends R.S. 13:2582(A))