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Dear Mr. Burris:

This opinion is in response to your recent inquiry regarding whether or not it is proper for a police jury to expend public funds for the use of names and photographs of police jury members in advertisements for the individual parishes.

The laws applicable to the above question are found in LSA-R.S. 43:111 through 112. R.S. 43:111.1, enacted in 1968, provides the following:

§ 111.1 Advertisements paid for with public funds, restrictions

No public funds shall be used in whole or in part for the payment of the cost of any advertisement containing therein the name of any public…