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Dear Mr. Roper:

You have requested an opinion of this office regarding the ability of the East Baton Rouge Metropolitan Council's ability to set the salaries of Baton Rouge City Court Judges. Relevant to your request are the following provisions of the Louisiana Revised Statutes and the Plan of Government for the City of Baton Rouge:

La.R.S. 13:1874 provides, in pertinent part:

(B) City court judges where the population of the territorial jurisdiction of the court is 100,000 or more shall receive the same salary as the district court judge of the parish wherein the city is located, the whole of…