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HB 612 Original 2025 Regular Session Hilferty
Abstract: Requires the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans to establish and maintain
employment lists containing names of persons eligible for appointment to the various
positions to be filled by the board.
Present law (R.S. 33:4071) establishes the sewerage and water board (board) of the city of New
Orleans. Provides for the composition and powers and duties of the board.
Proposed law retains present law.
Present law authorizes the board to employ all necessary clerks, engineers, firemen, and other skilled
and unskilled employees necessary and proper to the efficient administration, operation, and control
of the public sewerage, water, and drainage systems. Requires, prior to appointment, that all
employees, except unskilled laborers, pass the civil service examination administered by the civil
service commissioners of the city of New Orleans.
Proposed law retains present law and additionally requires the board to establish and maintain
employment lists containing names of persons eligible for appointment to the various positions to
be filled by the board.
Effective if and when the proposed amendment of Article X, ยงยง1(B) and 12(B) of the Constitution
of La. contained in the Act which originated as House Bill No. ___ of this 2025 R.S. of the
Legislature is adopted at a statewide election and becomes effective.
(Amends R.S. 33:4076)