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Dear Mr. Conner:

On behalf of the Plaquemines Parish Council you have requested an opinion of this office regarding Louisiana Revised Statute 29:727, and its application to the Plaquemines Parish Charter. In short, you ask whether La. R.S. 29:727 is constitutional, in that it provides additional powers to the parish president that go beyond those granted in the parish charter and whether those powers supersede the powers that the parish council would normally have, absent the Declaration of Emergency.

Before beginning our legal analysis, we note that, "Statutes are presumed constitutional, and…