RS 18:54 Qualification; date; duplicate oath; bond; approval of bond - Louisiana Statutes

§54.  Qualification; date; duplicate oath; bond; approval of bond

Within thirty days after the date of his commission, each registrar shall qualify for office by subscribing to the oath of office prescribed by the constitution.  The oath shall be filed with the clerk of court and a duplicate original or a certified copy thereof shall be filed with the secretary of state and with the state treasurer.  In a parish containing a municipality with a population of four hundred seventy-five thousand or more, the oath shall be filed with the clerk of the civil district court.  Each registrar also shall file with the state treasurer a bond, in favor of the governor and with security, for the faithful performance of the duties required of him and for the payment of such damages as may be sustained by his failure to discharge his duties.  The sureties on the bond shall be with a company authorized to do business in Louisiana, and in each parish the bond shall be in the amount of five thousand dollars.

Acts 1976, No. 697, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1978.  Amended by Acts 1977, No. 544, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1978; Acts 1991, No. 277, §1; Acts 1992, No. 949, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.