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Dear Marshal Reitzell:

This office is in receipt of your opinion request directed to Attorney General Richard P. Ieyoub. In your correspondence, you relate that one of your deputies was injured in the performance of his duties. After your office filed the necessary documentation to have his medical bills paid through workmen's compensation, the City of Monroe refused to pay the claim. As we understand your request, you ask whether the City of Monroe is obligated by law to pay compensation benefits to this deputy marshal.

Specific legislation governing a deputy marshal of the City of Monroe is…