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RS 16:2 - Duty of district attorney to act as counsel for parish boards and commissions
Universal Citation: LA Rev Stat § 16:2 (2018)
§2. Duty of district attorney to act as counsel for parish boards and commissions
B. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section or any law to the contrary, nothing shall prevent the governing authorities of the parishes of St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, Ouachita, Morehouse, Calcasieu, Vermilion, and Acadia or any city or parish school board in the state from each employing or retaining its own attorney to represent it generally. The employment of attorneys by the governing authorities shall relieve the district attorneys of the judicial districts serving the parishes of St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, Ouachita, Morehouse, Calcasieu, Vermilion, and Acadia from any further duty of representing the governing authorities, and the employment of an attorney by any city or parish school board shall relieve the district attorney of the judicial district serving such city or parish school board from any further duty of representing such school board.
D.(1) Where a parish has adopted a charter for local self-government or other home rule charter and such charter provides for the employment of a parish attorney or a special attorney or counsel, the district attorney shall not be the regular attorney or counsel for such governing authority.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 42:261(C) and R.S. 42:263, in a parish which has adopted a charter for local self-government or other home rule charter, if the charter so provides, the parish governing authority may retain or employ any attorney or counsel to represent it generally or retain or employ any special attorney or counsel to represent it in any special matter without the approval of the attorney general.
F. The parish school boards and governing authorities of the parishes of Iberia, St. Mary, and St. Martin may each contribute up to one hundred thousand dollars annually to the district attorney of the Sixteenth Judicial District to help defray the cost of providing legal services to the boards and commissions enumerated in Subsection A of this Section.
Amended by Acts 1974, No. 479, §1; Acts 1978, No. 588, §1; Acts 1979, No. 324, §1; Acts 1981, No. 728, §1; Acts 1983, No. 184, §1; Acts 1983, No. 475, §1; SCR No. 86, 1983 R.S.; Acts 1985, No. 1009, §1; Acts 2001, No. 359, §1; Acts 2004, No. 639, §1; Acts 2018, No. 30, §1, eff. May 10, 2018.