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LA Rev Stat § 42:162 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§162. Administration and recordation of oath or affirmation

RS 162 - Administration and recordation of oath or affirmation A. The oath or affirmation of all officers of the state may be administered by the governor, any judge, justice of the peace, notary public, or clerk of court. Except as otherwise provided in Subsection B of this Section, the oath or affirmation shall be subscribed to by the party taking it, and certified in his commission by the person administering it and shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of state and recorded by him. The oath or affirmation of all parish officers shall also be recorded in the clerk of court's office of the parish where the same may have been administered, to be recorded by the clerk of court in a book kept for that purpose. B. For members of each house of the legislature who take the oath or affirmation at the organizational session of the legislature as provided in Article III, Section 2(D) of the Constitution of Louisiana, the clerical officer of each house of the legislature shall deposit in the office of the secretary of state a certified journal entry of the proceedings of that house which reflects the taking of the oath of office as provided in the constitution. The secretary of state shall record each certified journal entry in the same manner the oaths or affirmations received pursuant to Subsection A of this Section are recorded. For the members of the legislature who took the oath of office at the organizational session of the legislature, the certified journal entry shall fulfill the requirements of this Part to take and subscribe to the oath or affirmation. C. The oath or affirmation shall be deposited for recordation within one month after the same shall have been administered. A certified journal entry submitted pursuant to Subsection B of this Section shall be deposited for recordation no later than one month following the organizational session of the legislature. Acts 1988, No. 850, §1; Acts 2003, No. 320, §1; Acts 2012, No. 4, §1, eff. Apr. 25, 2012. NOTE: Acts 2012, No. 4, §2 provides that the Act is remedial, curative, and procedural and is to be applied retroactively and prospectively.
LA Rev Stat § 42:163 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§163. Public officers; date salary commences

RS 163 - Public officers; date salary commences  The salary of any officer in this state whose compensation depends upon or is to be computed by time of service shall commence from the date on which he took the oath of office, or, where the oath is taken in compliance with Section 141 of Title 42, from the effective date as set therein. Amended by Acts 1978, No. 437, §1; Acts 1979, No. 652, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 42:181 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§181. Bond with surety residing in parish, or by surety company

RS 181 - Bond with surety residing in parish, or by surety company  All public officers who are required by law to give bond, shall give bond secured by a personal surety residing within the parish where the officer exercises the functions of his office, or by a reputable and reliable surety company doing business in the state.
LA Rev Stat § 42:182 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§182. Officers to whom not applicable

RS 182 - Officers to whom not applicable  The provisions of R.S. 42:181 shall not apply to the State Treasurer, the State Auditor, parish recorders and clerks of the district courts.
LA Rev Stat § 42:183 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§183. To whom bond payable

RS 183 - To whom bond payable  The bonds of state officers shall be made payable to the governor, and those of the parish officers to the president of the police jury or other governing authority of the parish.
LA Rev Stat § 42:184 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§184. Acceptance of bonds

RS 184 - Acceptance of bonds  The bonds of public officers shall be accepted by the parish recorder, the clerk of the district court, and the president of the police jury, or any two of them, in the absence of the third, within thirty days from the date of his commission, and before entering upon his duties. This shall apply in all the parishes except in the city of New Orleans, where that duty shall be performed by the recorder of mortgages.
LA Rev Stat § 42:185 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§185. Acceptance of sureties to be unanimous; appeal

RS 185 - Acceptance of sureties to be unanimous; appeal  The acceptance of the sureties offered upon the bond of any public officer must be unanimous. On the refusal to accept any surety, the district judge shall have the power, upon application made in vacation or in term time, to compel the officials whose duty it is to accept the sureties to show cause why they should not accept them. In all such cases these officials shall, upon demand by the party complaining, certify their decision and evidence upon which it is based to the judge who shall decide thereon immediately; and from his decision and order in the premises there shall be no appeal.
LA Rev Stat § 42:186 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§186. Authentication and recordation of bonds

RS 186 - Authentication and recordation of bonds  The bond of any public officer shall be authenticated by the attestations of two witnesses and the signature of the recorder; it shall also be recorded in a separate book kept for that purpose, and it shall also be registered in the mortgage records of the several parishes where the principal obligor may own real estate.
LA Rev Stat § 42:187 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§187. Bond operates as mortgage except when signed by surety company

RS 187 - Bond operates as mortgage except when signed by surety company  The bonds, when duly registered, shall operate from and after the date of the registry as a mortgage upon all of the real estate of the principal obligor. This does not apply to bonds signed by surety companies which shall be recorded only in the parish where the public officer resides and, shall not operate as a mortgage on any property which may be owned by the public officer.
LA Rev Stat § 42:188 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§188. Bond to remain on file; copy admissible in evidence

RS 188 - Bond to remain on file; copy admissible in evidence  All bonds must remain on file in the office of the recorder of mortgages and a duly certified copy shall always be admissible in evidence.
LA Rev Stat § 42:189 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§189. Duty of recorder to transmit copies

RS 189 - Duty of recorder to transmit copies  The recorder shall transmit to the secretary of state certified copies of all bonds of state officers taken by him, with a certificate of registry in the mortgage records, within three months after their execution. Whoever violates this Section shall be fined five hundred dollars. Amended by Acts 1978, No. 437, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 42:190 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§190. Release of surety for cause; new bond

RS 190 - Release of surety for cause; new bond  Whenever a surety on any official bond has good cause to fear that the public officer will render him liable by reason of his misfeasance, malfeasance or neglect of official duties, the surety may, by rule upon the officer cause him to appear before any court of competent jurisdiction to show cause why the surety should not be released from further liability upon the bond. The public officer shall be allowed ten days after service of the rule within which to answer, and upon the trial of the rule, if the court is satisfied that the apprehensions of the surety are well founded, a decree shall be entered requiring the officer to execute a new bond within a time fixed by the court of not less than ten days nor more than twenty days after final judgment, and further decreeing the release of the surety from all liability upon the bond after the expiration of the time allowed to give a new bond.
LA Rev Stat § 42:191 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§191. Effect of failure to give new bond

RS 191 - Effect of failure to give new bond  When the public officer fails or refuses to give a new bond, with good and sufficient surety, within the time prescribed by the court, he shall be ipso facto deprived of his office.
LA Rev Stat § 42:192 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§192. Summary proceedings

RS 192 - Summary proceedings  All suits brought by a surety under R.S. 42:190 shall be preference cases and shall be tried summarily without the intervention of a jury.
LA Rev Stat § 42:193 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§193. Suits to test sufficiency of surety; summary trial; appeal

RS 193 - Suits to test sufficiency of surety; summary trial; appeal  The governor is authorized to direct the institution of suits by the Attorney General or district attorney to test the sufficiency and solvency of the sureties on the bond of any public officer, even after approval of the bond by those whose duty it is to pass upon it. The suits provided for in this Section may be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction; they shall be tried summarily and in chambers, after ten days notice; and no suspensive appeal shall be allowed from a judgment which declares the bond insufficient or the sureties thereon insolvent unless the officer furnishes a new bond, approved by the proper officers and by the judge who rendered the original judgment.
LA Rev Stat § 42:194 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§194. New bond

RS 194 - New bond  Within ten days after the rendition of final judgment setting aside any bond on account of its insufficiency, or the insolvency of the sureties, the party whose bond has been declared unsatisfactory shall furnish a new bond, approved by the judge who rendered the original judgment. In the event of failure to furnish a new satisfactory bond the office shall be declared vacant and filled by appointment under existing laws.
LA Rev Stat § 42:195 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§195. Change in salary or compensation not to discharge bonds

RS 195 - Change in salary or compensation not to discharge bonds  The principal and the sureties on official bonds shall not be released or discharged by reason of any change in salaries, fees, commissions or perquisites of office, during the time for which the bond has been given.
LA Rev Stat § 42:196 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§196. Sale of land of principal and sureties upon execution

RS 196 - Sale of land of principal and sureties upon execution  Whenever an execution issues against a defaulting officer, the officer to whom the execution is directed, may seize and sell any lands which belonged to the principal obligor at the date of the registry of his official bond, without regard to any subsequent transfer or change of title, and in whatever hands the property is found. No sale shall be made of the property of the sureties until that of the principal has been discussed.
LA Rev Stat § 42:197 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§197. Amount of liability may be stipulated

RS 197 - Amount of liability may be stipulated  The sureties on all bonds given by all public officers may stipulate the amount for which they will severally become liable. This Section does not apply to sureties on the bonds of the State Treasurer and the State Auditor.
LA Rev Stat § 42:198 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§198. Special mortgage may be substituted for bond; appraisal

RS 198 - Special mortgage may be substituted for bond; appraisal  All public officers commissioned by the governor, who are required to give bond, may give a special mortgage on property situated within the parish in which they respectively exercise their functions. The mortgage shall be accepted by the persons appointed by law to accept the bond. The public officer proposing to mortgage property shall exhibit his title and a certificate of mortgages, to the persons authorized to approve the bond, who shall cause the property to be appraised, and not receive it unless it is double the amount of security required, after deducting all mortgages. The persons taking the mortgage shall cause it to be inscribed in the office of the recorder of mortgages, as required by law.
LA Rev Stat § 42:199 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§199. Release of sureties by special mortgage

RS 199 - Release of sureties by special mortgage  All public officers who have personal sureties on their official bonds may at any time release them by giving a special mortgage, as provided in R.S. 42:198.
LA Rev Stat § 42:200 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§200. Effect of special mortgage

RS 200 - Effect of special mortgage  The effect of the special mortgage authorized by R.S. 42:198 is to free and release the surplus of the property of the person giving it from all mortgages resulting from his official bond.
LA Rev Stat § 42:201 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§201. Special mortgage may be transferred to other property

RS 201 - Special mortgage may be transferred to other property  All public officers who are required to give bond and have availed themselves of the privilege to give a special mortgage, are authorized to have this mortgage transferred to other property, by applying to the governor in the manner specified in R.S. 42:202.
LA Rev Stat § 42:202 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§202. Mode of transfer

RS 202 - Mode of transfer  The application for the transfer of a special mortgage to other property must be made by petition to the governor, who shall appoint two competent persons to evaluate the property offered as a substitute; and if a sworn appraisement of the property shows that its value is sufficient to answer for the sum required, then after accepting the new mortgage, the governor shall have it recorded in the manner directed by law, and authorize the cancellation of all anterior special mortgages, so far as the state may be interested.
LA Rev Stat § 42:203 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§203. Annulment of bonds and mortgages after expiration of office, etc.

RS 203 - Annulment of bonds and mortgages after expiration of office, etc. All bonds with security and all mortgages which have been furnished by any public officer who has resigned or died, or whose office has expired by limitation, or who has been dismissed from office, shall be automatically cancelled by such eventualities, and no additional requirement for cancellation is necessary. The provisions of this Section do not apply to the collector of state taxes and licenses, nor to the state tax assessors, whose bonds and mortgages may be cancelled by the State Comptroller according to law. The provisions of this Section shall likewise not affect the responsibility of sureties on said bonds and mortgages by acts of the principal where there is liability prior to the cancellation of the said bonds or mortgages. Amended by Acts 1964, No. 233, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 42:204 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§204. §§204, 205 Repealed by Acts 1964, No. 233, §2

RS 204 - §§204, 205 Repealed by Acts 1964, No. 233, §2
LA Rev Stat § 42:206 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§206. Premium on bonds, how paid

RS 206 - Premium on bonds, how paid  All state boards or commissions, or institutions whose employees are required to give a bond in favor of the state shall pay the premium on the bond.
LA Rev Stat § 42:261.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§261.1. Certain parish and city school boards; employment of general attorney

RS 261.1 - Certain parish and city school boards; employment of general attorney  Each parish and city school board in the state may select, employ, fix the salary of and pay its own general attorney, in which case the district attorney shall be relieved of responsibility to serve as counsel for such board. Acts 1983, No. 475, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 42:261.2 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§261.2. Repealed by Acts 1983, No. 475, §3.

RS 261.2 - Repealed by Acts 1983, No. 475, §3.
LA Rev Stat § 42:261.3 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§261.3. Execution of personal judgments against public officials

RS 261.3 - Execution of personal judgments against public officials  Personal judgments for sums of money rendered against present or former public officers or employees of the state or their estates for acts or omissions in the course of public employment shall not become executory until ninety days after the close of the next regular legislative session following the time such judgments become final, or until such time as the Legislature appropriates funds therefor, whichever occurs first, provided, the provisions of this Section shall not affect any special fund or funds created for the payment of special benefits. For purposes of this section, a judgment becomes final, if appealed from, as provided by Articles 2166 and 2167 of the Code of Civil Procedure or, if there is no appeal taken from such judgment, after the delay for a devolutive appeal therefrom has elapsed. Added by Acts 1978, No. 136, §1, eff. June 26, 1978.
LA Rev Stat § 42:263 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§263. Resolution requesting special counsel

RS 263 - Resolution requesting special counsel  A. No parish governing authority, levee board except as provided in Subsection B hereof, parish school board, city school board, or other local or state board shall retain or employ any special attorney or counsel to represent it in any special matter or pay any compensation for any legal services whatever unless a real necessity exists, made to appear by a resolution thereof stating fully the reasons for the action and the compensation to be paid. The resolution then shall be subject to the approval of the attorney general and, if approved by him, shall be spread upon the minutes of the body and published in the official journal of the parish. B. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection A of this Section or R.S. 42:264, the governing boards of the Cane River Levee and Drainage District, the Campti-Clarence Levee District, the Natchitoches Levee and Drainage District, the Red River Levee and Drainage District, the Fifth Louisiana Levee District, and the Nineteenth Louisiana Levee District may retain or employ special counsel as needed and without the approval of the attorney general. C. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection A of this Section or R.S. 42:264, the Board of Commissioners of the Black Lake Bayou Recreation and Water Conservation District of Red River Parish may retain or employ general or special counsel as needed and without the approval of the attorney general. Amended by Acts 1979, No. 78, §1; Acts 1982, No. 570, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 42:264 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§264. Penalties

RS 264 - Penalties  Any attorney who knowingly accepts employment and compensation from a parish governing authority, parish school board, levee board, city school board, other local board, or state board or commission, not previously approved by the attorney general, must immediately upon notification thereof return a like dollar amount of funds to the public body which paid such prohibited compensation. Notwithstanding such requirement, the Attorney General may approve the employment and payment of compensation retroactively where the failure to comply with this Section was inadvertent and was in good faith, in which case no return of the fee amount shall be required. Amended by Acts 1981, No. 924, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 42:265 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§265. Special services by Attorney General

RS 265 - Special services by Attorney General  The governor may, in his discretion, require and direct the Attorney General to render any special services to any police jury or other parish governing authority, parish school board, or state board or commission, in any matter and when deemed necessary in the case of a state board or commission, to assume full charge and control of all legal proceedings relating to such matter.
LA Rev Stat § 42:266 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§266. Mailing of notices, documents or communications: registration or certification optional

RS 266 - Mailing of notices, documents or communications: registration or certification optional  Whenever any officer or official of the state of Louisiana is required under any law of the state of Louisiana to mail any notice, document, communication, or any matter of any nature whatsoever by United States registered mail, such officer or official may, at his option, mail such notice, document, communication or other matter by United States certified mail.  Acts 1958, No. 375, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 42:267 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§267. Naming public buildings, etc., in honor of a living person prohibited; penalty

RS 267 - Naming public buildings, etc., in honor of a living person prohibited; penalty A. Except as authorized or provided by law, no public building, public bridge, public park, public fish or game preserve, or public wildlife refuge­ owned by the state or by any political subdivision of the state or by any institution receiving its support in whole or in part from the state shall be named in honor of any living person. B. The officer, officers, board, or commission responsible for naming any public building, public bridge, public park, public fish or game preserve, or public wildlife refuge named in violation of this Section in honor of any person who is still living shall change the name and the officer, officers, board, or commission in charge of such building, bridge, park, preserve, or refuge shall destroy, deface, or remove all plaques, signs, or other evidence of the name of such person appearing on the premises thereof. C. Any person may commence a suit in the district court for the parish in which the building, bridge, park, preserve, or refuge is located for mandamus, injunctive, or declaratory relief to require compliance with the provisions of this Section, together with reasonable attorney fees and costs. Acts 2004, No. 577, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 42:281 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 42 - Public Officers and Employees|§281. Officers to render account of contingent fund

RS 281 - Officers to render account of contingent fund  Every officer for the benefit of whose office there is a contingent fund appropriated shall render a detailed statement to the legislature at each regular session, showing what disposition has been made of the fund.