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Dear Mr. Tubb:

This office is in receipt of your opinion request under letters dated August 17 and August 25, 1993 directed to Attorney General Richard P. Ieyoub. The request has been assigned to me for resolution.

Your inquiry may be restated as follows:

May the Sheriff of Ouachita Parish utilize the proceeds from the ad valorem tax millage, levied under the authority of an election held on October 17, 1981 under which that certain proposition attached hereto as "Exhibit A" was approved by the electorate of Ouachita Parish, for the construction and/or maintenance and operation of a jail in…