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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Sep 30, 1992

Caple v. Brown, 323 So.2d 217 (La.App. 2nd Cir. 1975). … See Trahan v.

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Apr 24, 2007

Art. 744 Scott v. Red River-Bayou Pierre Leve and Drainage District of La., 7 So. 2d 429 (La.App. 1942) Petit Anse Coteau Drainage District v. Iberia and V.R.Co., 124 La. 502 , 50 So. 512 (1909) Mr. Gregory W. … CODE art. 744 . 7 LA.REV.STAT. § 38:1767 . 8 LA.REV.STAT. § 38:1794 (D). 9 LA.REV.STAT. § 38:1804 . 10 Thibodeaux v. Landry , 351 So.2d 552 (La.App. 3 Cir., 1977). 11 Parish of East Baton Rouge v.

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Oct 26, 1992

, commission, district, governing authority, political subdivision, or any committee, subcommittee, advisory board, or task force thereof, or any other instrumentality of state, parish or municipal government, including a … Gulf Western Industries, Inc. v. U.S., 615 F.2d 527 (D.C. Cir. 1979).

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Aug 6, 1996

Opinion No. 93-176 concluded, with regard to the first issue, that privately owned batture property is subject to ad valorem taxation, citing Mathis v. Board of Assessors , 16 So.2d 454 (La. 1894). … Similar reasoning is seen in Tri-County Public Airport Authority v. Board of County Commissioners , 245 Kan. 301 , 777 P.2d 843 (1989) and Salina Airport Authority v. Board of Tax Appeal , 14 Kan.

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Sep 20, 1999

This limitation was clearly recognized in Varnado v. … See also Attorney General Opinion No. 92-375, citing West v. Allen, 382 So.2d 924 (La. 1980), concluding that a home rule charter could not take precedence over the Constitution or state statutes.

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Jun 22, 1999

Herein we are dealing with employment by the Board of the South Bossier Volunteer Fire Department (Fire District 2), and not a regularly paid fire service. … Swetman v. Teachers' Retirement System, 578 So.2d 149 (La.App. 1st Cir. 1991).

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Jun 18, 2001

In Redwine v. State of Louisiana, et al, 649 So.2d 61 (La.App. 1st Cir. 1994), the court recognized this prohibition with regard to justices of the peace courts and constables. … Therein, the Union Parish School Board voted to raise the salaries of school board members. Subsequently, the members desired to return to the lower pay level that existed at the beginning of their terms.

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Dec 7, 1989

State v. … Similar reasoning is seen in Tri-County Public Airport Authority v. Board of County Commissioners , 245 Kan. 301 , 777 P.2d 843 , (1989) and Salina Airport Authority v. Board of Tax Appeal , 13 Kan.

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Jan 7, 2009

In Board of Directors of the Industrial Development Board of the City of Gonzales, Louisiana, Inc. v. … You also indicated that recently implemented changes by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board require public sector employees to account for the future cost of post employment benefits such as health care on an incurred

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Apr 20, 2005

In Meyers v. … Ouachita Parish School Board v. Ouachita Parish Supervisors Association , 362 So.2d 1138 (La. 1978).; Washington v. St. Charles Parish School Board , 288 So.2d 321 (La. 1974); Dominion Land Co,. v.

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Jun 7, 2000

Each such commission shall be a body politic and corporate and a political subdivision of the state of Louisiana, composed of the following territory : * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (v) Pointe Coupee … Pointe Coupee Parish. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * C. (1)(a) Unless otherwise provided in any local, special, or general law for a particular commission, the commission shall be governed by a board

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Jun 24, 1992

The expenditures of each organization's funds are subject to the control of its board of directors. … ."); Spain v.

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Jun 14, 2007

or when discharging his official duties shall be required to pay court costs in any judicial proceeding instituted or prosecuted by or against the state, or any such parish, municipality, or other political subdivision, board … In Valdez v.

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Feb 11, 2011

Assistant Attorney General JDC/DDH/jv 1 Board of Directors of the Industrial Development Board of the City of Gonzales, Louisiana, Inc. v. … No. 90-0289 and Torrance v. Caddo Parish Police Jury , 119 So.2d 617 (La. App. 2 Cir. 1960). 13 Torrance v. Caddo Parish Police Jury , 119 So.2d 617 , 619 (La. App. 2 Cir. 1960). 14 La. Atty. Gen. Op. No. 06-0011.

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Aug 10, 2004

Under City of New Orleans v. … See City of New Orleans v. State of Louisiana , 443 So.2d 562 (La., 1983), which extended the protections of R.S. 48:218 to public entities as well as private.

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Jun 2, 1998

Following R.S. 33:321 the functions of the mayor and board of aldermen are set forth, and then comes the functions of other municipal officials. … These observations are consistent with the statement of the Court in Gros v. Town of Patterson , 345 So.2d 134 (La.App 1977).

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Oct 1, 1998

Board of Commissioners of Orleans Levee District v. Department of Natural Resources , 496 So.2d 281 (La. 1986). … Paul v. Edwards , 323 So.2d 488 (La.App. 1st Cir. 1975). Initially, we determine that Art.

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Jul 12, 2007

Carter v. … See Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill , 470 U.S. 532 , 546 , 105 S.Ct. 1487 , 1495 , 84 L.Ed.2d 494 (1985); Wilson v. City of New Orleans , 479 So.2d 891 , 901 (La. 1985).

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Mar 3, 2000

Fleming Irrigation, Inc. v. Pioneer Bank Trust Co., 27,262 (La.App. 2d Cir. 8/23/95), 660 So.2d 147 , 1995 WL 49754 ); Central Bank v. Simmons, 595 So.2d 363 (La.App. 2d Cir. 1992); Pelican Homestead Sav. Ass'n v. … Brown v. Drillers, Inc., 93-1019 (La. 01/14/94), 630 So.2d 741 ; Billingsley v. Bach Energy Corp., 588 So.2d 786 (La.App. 2d Cir. 1991). C.C.

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Nov 8, 2010

VII, § 8, "[n]o bonds or other obligations shall be issued or sold by the state, directly or through any state board, agency, or commission, or by any political subdivision of the state, unless prior written approval of the … HUXEN II Assistant Attorney General JDC/BAH II 1 See Schwab v. City of Kenner , 97-287 (La.