§ 33:2476.1 — Shreveport fire and police civil service board

Louisiana § 33:2476.1

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 33: Municipalities and Parishes

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§2476.1. Shreveport fire and police civil service board
A. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:2476, the members of the
Shreveport municipal fire and police civil service board shall be appointed by
the governing authority of the municipality as follows:
(1) One shall be appointed by the governing authority upon its own
nomination.
(2)(a) Two members shall be appointed from a list of nominees
submitted by the chancellor of Louisiana State University at Shreveport and
two shall be appointed from a list of nominees submitted by the chancellor of
Southern University at Shreveport. Each chancellor shall submit two
nominations for each position which is to be filled. Such nominations shall be
made within sixty days of request, made by certified letter, for such list.
(b) If a list of nominations is not submitted within sixty days after
submission of request for such list, such failure shall be considered a failure
to perform a ministerial duty required by law of a public official or corporate
officer. To this end, the district attorney for Caddo Parish shall provoke the
issuance of a writ of mandamus to compel the official or officer to act as
provided by law.
(3) In an effort to ensure that the board is sensitive to concerns of all
of the citizens of the municipality, the governing authority shall make
appointments pursuant to Paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Subsection so as to
provide that membership on the board will reflect the ethnic and cultural
diversity of the population of the municipality.
(4) The governing authority shall appoint four members who have been
nominated and elected by and from the regular employees of the fire and
police departments as follows:
(a) Two members shall be elected and appointed from the fire
department, and two members shall be elected and appointed from the police
department. The employee-nominees from each department shall be elected
by secret ballot of the regular employees of their respective department at an
election to be called and held for that purpose by the chief of the department.
In such an election, each voting employee shall cast two votes and may
distribute them among candidates in any manner the voter chooses, including
casting both votes for a single candidate. The two candidates receiving the
most votes shall be elected.
(b) The chief of each department shall call such an election within
forty-five days after the effective date of this Paragraph by posting, for a
fifteen-day continuous period immediately preceding the election, a notice
thereof on the bulletin board of each station house of his department. The
chief shall officially notify the governing authority of the municipality, within
the ten-day period immediately following the election, of the names of the
employee-nominees so elected.
(c) The chief of the department shall vote in the election only in the
case of a tie vote.
B. The terms of members appointed pursuant to Subsection A of this
Section shall be three years except that the initial terms of such members shall
be as follows: the member appointed on the governing authority's own
nomination shall serve three years; the members appointed from nominees
submitted by the executive head of a college or university shall serve two
years; and the employee members shall serve one year.
C. Any single vacancy in an employee-member position on the
Shreveport board which occurs prior to the expiration of a term shall be filled
by election-nomination and appointment as provided in Paragraph A(4) of this
Section except that each voting employee shall cast a single vote.
D. In Shreveport, five members of the board shall constitute a quorum,
and the concurring votes of a majority of those present and voting, a quorum
being present, shall be sufficient for the decision of all matters to be decided
or transacted by it.
NOTE: See Acts 1999, No. 1190, §§2 and 3, relative to
expiration of terms of current members, and termination of
effectiveness of Act on Dec. 31, 2001, and expiration of terms
and filling of vacancies at that time.
NOTE: See Acts 2001, No. 505, relative to the repeal of §3
of Acts 1999, No. 1190.

Legislative History

Acts 1999, No. 1190, §1.