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Dear Major Sonnier:

This office is in receipt of your March 14, 2005 request for an Opinion from the Attorney General. In your request, you posed three questions relating to the provision of insurance policies by the Vermilion Parish Sheriffs Office (to some of its employees). In furtherance of your inquiry, you provided a narrative concerning the situation's history.

Your concerns and the Attorney General's response to those concerns are presented as follows:

1. is the vpso entitled to the cash surrender checks because, we, or our predecessor. paid the bulk (85% to 95%) of the premiums for…