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Dear Mayor Goldsby:

This office is in receipt of your request for an opinion of the Attorney General in regard to the establishment of the Amite Historic Preservation Commission. The Twenty-First Judicial District Court ordered that Amite's Ordinance No. 4-1994 that established the Amite Historic Preservation Commission was null and void inasmuch as the ordinance "was not adopted in strict compliance with the provisions of Louisiana Revised Statutes25:731, et seq."

We find pursuant to R.S. 25:733 the governing authority must appoint a study committee to investigate any proposed historic…