Legal Opinion
Opinion Number
Louisiana Attorney General Reports
Decided June 15, 2001Published
1Opinion of the Court
Dear Mr. Mar:
You question whether or not a person can legally serve as an elected municipal official while contracting with the federal government as a mail carrier delivering mail within municipal limits.
Our state Dual Officeholding and Dual Employment Laws, R.S. 42:61, etseq., prohibit one from "holding an elective office .[in] a political subdivision" while holding "employment in the government of the United States". See R.S. 42:63(A)(1). An exemption in R.S. 42:66I(1) allows an individual to hold federal employment as a postal worker while holding local elective office "in a village or…
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- Irving L. Norton, A/K/A I. L. Norton, and Dana Norton v. Edmond L. Murphy and the United States of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1981
- Lerma v. United StatesDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1988