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Code · Louisiana · Title 33 — Municipalities and Parishes

RS 33:257

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RS 33:257
§257. Canvass of returns; proces verbal
A. On the date and at the hour and place specified in the notice of election, the local governing authority ordering the election, in public session, shall examine and canvass the returns and declare the result of the election. The result shall be promulgated by one publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality or, if there is none, in a newspaper of general circulation in the parish, or if there is no newspaper of general circulation in the parish, then in a newspaper of general circulation in an adjoining parish.
B. The local governing authority ordering the election shall preserve a proces verbal of the canvass. The governing authority shall forward a copy of the proces verbal to the secretary of state, who shall record it. A copy also shall be forwarded to the clerk of the district court, and in Orleans Parish to the clerk of the civil district court, who shall record it in the mortgage records. A copy shall be retained in the archives of the office of the local governing authority ordering the election.
Acts 2016, No. 313, §1, eff. June 2, 2016.
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