2009 Louisiana Laws TITLE 18 Louisiana election code :: RS 18:173 Deaths

§173.  Deaths

A.  By the tenth day of each month, the secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals shall send to the registrar in each parish a report, certified as correct over his signature or the signature of his authorized representative, containing the name, address, and sex of each person of at least seventeen years of age who died in the parish within the preceding calendar month.

B.  Upon receipt of a certified copy of a death certificate, the registrar of voters shall remove from the voter registration rolls the name of the deceased.

C.  By the tenth day of each month the parish health officer shall send notice to the registrar of voters of the death of each person in the parish during the preceding month and shall include the deceased person's parish of residence.

D.(1)  By the tenth day of each month, the secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals shall send to the Department of State a report, certified as correct over his signature or the signature of his authorized representative, containing the name, address, date of birth, sex, and social security number, as such information exists in the database of the Department of Health and Hospitals, of any person seventeen years of age or older who died in each parish of the state within the preceding calendar month.

(2)  The Department of State shall cancel the registration of any deceased person when the information provided by the Department of Health and Hospitals corresponds exactly to the criteria for cancellation of voter registration as established in R.S. 18:108.  The Department of State shall promptly notify the registrar of the parish in which the voter was registered of such cancellation.

(3)  The information received from the Department of Health and Hospitals regarding deceased persons whose registrations  were not canceled pursuant to Paragraph (2) of this Subsection shall be sent monthly to the registrar of voters for each parish by the Department of State.

E.  The registrar of voters may use information from an obituary notice to cancel a deceased voter's registration if the notice provides sufficient information to properly identify the voter and the registrar has confirmed the voter's death with the office of vital records.

Acts 1976, No. 697, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1978.  Amended by Acts 1977, No. 544, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1978; Acts 1979, No. 229, §1, eff. July 13, 1979; Acts 1986, No. 669, §1; Acts 1999, No. 254, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2000; Acts 2001, No. 451, §6, eff. Jan. 12, 2004; Acts 2001, No. 1032, §7; Acts 2001, No. 1181, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2002.

NOTE:  See Acts 2001, No. 1032, §17.