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HB 218 Original 2023 Regular Session Marcelle
Abstract: Provides relative to the selection of the chief judge or administrative judge for city
courts.
Present law requires that where a city court is composed of two or more divisions, a candidate for
nomination and election to the court, at the time of filing his declaration as a candidate, shall
designate the division of the court for which he is a candidate. Provides that the judge oldest in point
of continuous service shall be the presiding judge, except that when they have served continuously
the same length of time, the judge oldest in years shall be the presiding judge.
Proposed law retains present law and provides that the laws of this state relative to determining the
chief judge of city courts shall supersede local rules of court selecting a chief judge or administrative
judge for a city court.
(Amends R.S. 13:1878(A))