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Dear Ms. Parsons:

This office is in receipt of your request for an Opinion from the Attorney General concerning the ability of commissioners on the Southern Rapid Rail Transit Commission to vote and expend travel monies or other Commission funding should their terms expire without reappointment or replacement.

I. INITIAL ANALYSIS

LA. REV. STAT. § 48:1671 creates the Southern Rapid Rail Transit Compact (as it applies to Louisiana). It specifically mandates the creation of the Southern Rapid Rail Transit Commission and delineates the composition of the Commission's membership.1 Pertinent to…