Louisiana § RS 17:60.2 - Jefferson Parish School Board; reapportionment

§ RS 17:60.2. Jefferson Parish School Board; reapportionment

A.  The purpose and intent of this section is to reapportion the Jefferson Parish School Board so that each member thereof represents as nearly as possible the same number of constituents as is required by recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court.  

B.  The districts of the Jefferson Parish School Board shall be composed as hereinafter set forth and one member shall be elected from and shall represent each such district:

(1)  District 1 shall be composed of Ward 1, Ward 2, and Precincts 1, 2, 3, and 6 of Ward 3.  

(2)  District 2 shall be composed of Precincts 4, 4A, 5, and 7 of Ward 3, Precincts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7A, and 8 of Ward 4, and Ward 6.  

(3)  District 3 shall be composed of Precincts 9, 9A, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 of Ward 4, Ward 5, and Ward 11.  

(4)  District 4 shall be composed of Ward 7, Precincts 1, 14, 15, 22, and 24 of Ward 8, and Precincts 1, 2, 3E, 3F, 3G, 3H, 11, 12, and 13 of Ward 9.  

(5)  District 5 shall be composed of Precincts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 28, and 47 of Ward 8 and Precincts 1, 2, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, and 15 of Ward 10.  

(6)  District 6 shall be composed of Precincts 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, and 46 of Ward 8, and Precincts 10B, 10C, and 10D of Ward 9.  

(7)  District 7 shall be composed of Precincts 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9A, 9B, 9C, 9D, 9E, 9F, 9G, 9H, 9I, 9J, 9K, 9L, 9M, 9N, and 9P of Ward 9.  

(8)  District 8 shall be composed of Precinct 10A of Ward 9 and Precincts 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 28 of Ward 10.  

C.  The special school board election districts provided for herein shall be only for the purpose of electing school board members and shall not be for the purpose of levying taxes or issuing bonds.  The creation of such special election districts shall not affect any existing tax or bonding districts and same shall remain in full force and effect as otherwise provided by law.

D.  The board shall again reapportion itself, based upon the decennial federal census taken in 1980, such reapportionment to be effective in time for the elections in 1982, and the board shall again reapportion itself after every decennial federal census thereafter, such reapportionment to be effective in time for the election in the second year thereafter.  Each such reapportionment shall be such that each member of said board represents as nearly as possible the same number of persons.  

Added by Acts 1970, No. 485, §1.  Amended by Acts 1974, No. 18, §1, emerg. eff. June 14, 1974, at 9:00 A.M.