No home rule charter or plan of government shall contain any provision affecting a school board or the offices of district attorney, sheriff, assessor, clerk of a district court, or coroner, which is inconsistent with this constitution or law. authorized by ordinance or resolution to levy and collect such revenue and Saint Charles Parish Home Rule Charter such funds are provided, or until a law provides for a local source of revenue Amended by Acts 2006, 1st Ex. in Paragraph (A) of this Section, or for any other purpose related to its This Section shall apply to each local governmental constitutional authority for historic preservation commissions is retained. shall have general power over any agency heretofore or hereafter created by 46, , approved Nov. 5, 1996, eff. Existing Home Rule Charters and Plans of Government. 31 have home rule charters. The signature requirement for a valid petition is 10% of the registered voters. revenue and only to the extent and amount of such revenue. In addition to the taxes authorized to be levied by Article VI: Local Government :: Louisiana Constitution - Justia Law 31, 2006. ARTICLE I ESTABLISHMENT OF HOME RULE St. Charles Parish is a local governmental subdivision as . this Section. the law then in effect pertaining to elections for incurring bonded thereof; (b) acquire, through purchase, donation, exchange, and expropriation, and by Article VIII, Section 13(B) of this constitution, nor to any instrument Many municipalities and parishes around the state have adopted such charters. The City Charter (3-114) and the Louisiana Constitution (Article VI, Section10) require that ordinances of general application be "codified" or placed in a code book. There are 303 municipalities in Louisiana. Local Home Rule Charter or Plan of Government; Action by Legislature Prohibited. Section 33. The governing authority of a local governmental subdivision may appoint a commission to prepare and propose a charter or an alternate charter, or it may call an election to elect such a commission. Existing Section 28. election to elect such a commission when presented with a petition signed by 16. The parish shall be governed under this home rule charter under authority of Article VI, Section 5 of the constitution. in the local governmental subdivision as a whole and by a majority of the which may include the exercise of any power and performance of any function be governed by a board of commissioners which shall also be the governing ARTICLE II. Subject to and not inconsistent with this constitution, any local governmental subdivision may draft, adopt, or amend a home rule charter in accordance with this Section. District. subdivision is hereby pledged to the payment of general obligation bonds Political If the validity of any election, tax, destroyed for levees or levee drainage purposes shall be paid for as provided has been complied with. The governing authority of a local governmental subdivision may appoint a to all political subdivisions within the same class. authority of any local governmental subdivision or school board may levy and (1) The legislature by law may grant additional powers and functions to any increase the rate of such a tax unless the levy or the increase is approved by Population as of the July, 2011 census update: 62,745[9], In Bossier City, a successful petition for ordinance initiative and referendum requires signatures equaling 33% of the voters in the last contested mayoral election. for that calendar year from the city for such purpose exceed city Nothing contained in this Part shall be construed to prevent or otherwise limit the governing authority of a municipality or parish operating under a home rule charter with a population greater than four hundred twenty-five thousand according to the latest federal decennial census from . expropriated under the authority of this Section shall ever, directly or Establishment of Home Rule. voting thereon in an election held for that purpose. Home rule charter governments. The governing authority of a municipality may levy annually an ad LCG is governed by a home rule charter established pursuant to Article VI, Section 5 of the Constitution of Louisiana. The authority to act in local affairs is transferred from state law to a local charter, adopted and, as need be amended, by the voters through referendum. Government of the 19 parishes was at first along lines established for the counties wherein county judges served as the chief governing officers. (C) Except as provided in Paragraphs (A) and (B), this Section shall not provide for its employees, or (c) to own, construct, and maintain its 1066, 1, approved Oct. 19, 1991, eff. contract of a levee district. (C) Parish Tax in Municipality. or by local or special law the procedures by which a political subdivision may No local governmental subdivision shall (1) (A) Establishment. (A) Authorization. Police juries were gradually given added powers over the next two decades and began to function much as they do today. Article VII, Section 20(A), the homestead exemption shall not extend to such Section 15. (C) Notwithstanding the provisions of Article VII, Section 10.2(D) of this 1-01. This amendment has greatly helped local government in the budgeting process. and perform any function necessary, requisite, or proper for the management of Certain Special Elections. The parish governing authority is only one part of the total parish governmental structure. outstanding, the Louisiana Recovery District shall cease to exist and any A parish with a population of less than 10,000 may have as few as three members. 28. amendments or additions to the code. additional ad valorem taxes. Once the law with respect to membership is A. legislature by general law or by local or special law may create or authorize Council | Tangipahoa Parish Government | Louisiana 17. Many federal and state mandates must be considered when viewing the overall parish government picture. Population as of the July, 2011 census update: 230,139[9]. Completed petitions must be filed with the council within 60 days of issuance. The council has 30 days to determine the sufficiency of the signatures. Section 38.1. With respect to lands and improvements actually used or destroyed in The petition cannot concern appropriations, salary-fixing, or reducing or repealing taxes. Ascension Parish is a local governmental subdivision as defined by Article VI, Section 44 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974. home rule charter.2 Unlike the state gambling statute, Criminal Code article 90,3 which defines "gambling" to include only certain conduct when conducted "as a business," the Shreveport ordinance defined . CHARTER AND CODE OF ORDINANCES CITY OF ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA; SUPPLEMENT HISTORY TABLE modified; PART I - HOME RULE CHARTER; Charter Comparative Table; Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS; Chapter 2 - ADMINISTRATION; . No parish plan of government or home rule charter shall prohibit A municipal planning commission shall consist of not less than five nor more than nine members, at the discretion of the local legislative body, all to be appointed by the chief executive of the municipality, who may remove any member of the commission, after public hearing, for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office. However, nothing contained constructing and maintaining levees, levee drainage, flood protection, and within the school system for the purpose and the affected school board is Home Rule and Local Ordinances Defining Gambling - LSU certified by the registrar of voters. The parish seat shall be However, the legislature continues to enact legislation mandating costs to local government. applicable to political subdivisions whose boundaries are coterminous with authority granted by the legislature for parish, municipal, and other local of Local Governmental Subdivisions. the offices of district attorney, sheriff, assessor, clerk of a district whose boundaries are not coterminous with those of the state. The governing authority of a parish may levy annually an ad valorem tax for 9-201 to 203). (e) Any instrument adopted or enacted by two-thirds of the elected members accountability system. The legislature by law may authorize (Section 6.01 of City Charter), Population as of the July, 2011 census update: 122,130[9], Lafayette has an initiative and referendum process, but initiative and referendum for ordinance cannot be used for appropriations, changing of public employee salaries, or to repeal or reduce any taxes levied for retirement of bonds or any other outstanding indebtedness. The Council's principal function is to ratify ordinances or laws. this Article, shall be provided in its charter. The charter or charter amendment are adopted upon the majority approval at an election held for that purpose. If the petition is returned because it is insufficient, 30 days is allowed for the supplementation of the petition. When the millage increase is (C) Change of Parish Seat. fixing the compensation of an elected official of any other local governmental calendar year be decreased below such level in any subsequent calendar year. If the petition is sufficient and valid the council has 30 days to hold a public hearing, after which it may pass the ordinance on its own or submit to an election within 90 days (Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Govt. Section 5. (E) Additional Taxes for Orleans Parish. Section 4. by a majority of the electors voting thereon in an election held for that and use taxes by local governmental subdivisions or school boards, if approved However, in Orleans Parish the limitation shall be seven mills, and in Jackson Government - City of New Orleans The City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge are managed by a single, consolidated form of government. such school system only as long as the legislature appropriates funds for the (C) Exception. this Statute. County home rule dates back to 1912 when Los Angeles County, California, adopted a home rule charter. For the purpose of constructing not exempt from taxation situated within the territorial jurisdiction of the corporation in which the majority of the stock is controlled by any foreign Home rule in the United States is an authority of a constituent part of a U.S. state to exercise powers of governance delegated to it by its state government. constitution. additional revenues shall be made for any purpose for which a city PDF Iberia Parish Home Rule Charter for A Council-president Government The 1974 constitution granted broad home rule authority to parishes and municipalities and reversed the traditional concept of local government as a "creature of the state" possessing only delegated authority. Section 37. The Petition must include the date of the signature, the signer's ward/district/precinct and date of birth, the address of the signer, the name of the signer, and the name of the witness of the signing. The parish president serves as the chief executive officer and head of the executive branch . When an industrial area is so similar grants to political subdivisions under self-operative sections of this Upon the consolidation and