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Dear Mr. Bullers:

This office is in receipt of your request for an opinion of the Attorney General in regard to the South Bossier Volunteer Fire Department. You indicate at this time there are fifty-two volunteers on the Fire Department rolls, and the Board is considering hiring one full-time and possibly one part-time fire fighter/EMT to augment and coordinate the volunteer group. You ask if regularly paid employees are hired, would they fall under Civil Service laws.

Article X, Section 16 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974 provides as follows:

A system of classified fire and police civil…