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Dear Marshal Stanford:

This office is in receipt of your request for an opinion of the Attorney General in regard to your status as Town Marshal. You ask for an opinion of this office stating that the Town Marshal of Plain Dealing is the same as Chief of Police, and you indicate you believe that this office has already given an opinion stating this.

Chapter 2 of Title 33 is entitled "Local Government". Thereunder is R.S. 33:321 which provides that all municipalities shall be governed by the provisions of that Part "except those municipalities governed by a special legislative charter, a home…