2009 Louisiana Laws TITLE 18 Louisiana election code :: RS 18:174 Changes of name; remarriage

§174.  Changes of name; remarriage

A.  The clerk of a court having jurisdiction over the changing of a name shall record in the conveyance book in his office each judgment which has become definitive that effects a change of a person's name, and the name, date of birth, sex, and address of the person whose name is changed.  This recordation shall be made immediately after the judgment becomes definitive.  By the tenth day of each calendar month the clerk shall transmit to the registrar of voters for his parish a certified copy of the judgment.

B.  By the tenth day of each month the secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals shall send to the registrar of voters in each parish a report, certified as correct over his signature or the signature of an authorized representative, containing the full name, address, and the last husband's name of each married woman who remarried in the parish within the preceding calendar month.

C.  Any change of name accepted for voter registration purposes under the provisions of R.S. 18:114, 115, or 116 shall update any previous registration.

Acts 1976, No. 697, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1978.  Amended by Acts 1978, No. 292, §1, eff. July 6, 1978; Acts 1979, No. 229, §1, eff. July 13, 1979; Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 10, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.