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Dear Mr. Brumfield:

You have requested an opinion of the Attorney General relative to the interpretation of two ad valorem tax propositions as they apply to the Morehouse Parish Health Unit. The Morehouse Parish Health Unit is presently housed in a privately owned building leased to the police jury. The owner has offered to sell the building to the parish. You request our opinion as to whether the two propositions, in question, authorize this acquisition.

The health unit tax proposition provides:

"Shall the Parish of Morehouse, State of Louisiana, under the provisions of Article VI, Sections 30…