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Dear Mr. Jewell:

On behalf of the Pointe Coupee Parish Police Jury, you ask if the parish administrator may be removed at will by the police jury pursuant to R.S. 33:1236(10), which generally empowers the police jury "to appoint all officers necessary to carry into execution the parish regulations, and to remove them from office."

R.S. 33:1236.1 provides:

1236.1. Power to employ parish manager and assistant parish manager

The police juries shall have the power and authority to employ a parish manager and an assistant parish manager and to fix their salaries for a term not to exceed that of the…