2014 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 33 - Municipalities and Parishes
RS 33:160 - Returns of election; recording returns; proclaiming result; effect of vote favoring annexation

§160. Returns of election; recording returns; proclaiming result; effect of vote favoring annexation

A. The returns of such election shall be made to the municipal authorities of the city or town within forty-eight hours after the closing of the polls. The returns of election shall be likewise recorded and transcribed in the public record-book wherein the ordinances or official proceedings of the municipal authorities are usually recorded; and the municipal authorities shall within ten days thereafter make public proclamation of the result of such election by publication for ten days in one or more newspapers published in the city or town, or if there be none, by posting as required in sheriff's and constable's sales; and if a majority in number and value of the qualified electors residing in the territorial corporate limits of such city or town as theretofore established and constituted, voting at such election, have voted in favor of the proposed annexation of such lots or land, the lots or land proposed to be annexed, shall, from the expiration of the proclamation of the result of the election, be annexed to, included in and constitute part of the corporate limits of the city or town and be subject to the jurisdiction, control, and authority of the municipal authorities of the city or town as fully, and to all intents and purposes as if, the same had been originally included in the corporate limits thereof.

B. The municipal governing authority shall furnish to the registrar of voters a copy of all municipal ordinances annexing territory as well as a map and written description of all newly annexed territory.

Acts 1986, No. 669, §2.