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Dear Mr. Stephens:

This office is in receipt of your request for an opinion of the Attorney General pursuant to a resolution of the St. Charles Parish Zoning Board of Adjustment. You question the legality of certain ordinances under consideration by the St. Charles Parish Council. You indicate two of these ordinances would limit the powers of the Board which in the St. Charles Parish Zoning Ordinance was granted the power to "vary or modify the application of any of the regulations or provisions of the ordinance", while the third would dissolve the Board entirely and have the council assume…