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Dear Ms. Alcock:

You advise this office that the governmental functions of the City of Houma have been consolidated with those of Terrebonne Parish. The governing authority for both is known as the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government (hereafter, the "governing authority").1 The governing authority operates under the provisions of a home rule charter, adopted subsequent to the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, pursuant to Article VI, Section 5(E) (1974). You specifically ask if the governing authority has authority, by home rule charter amendment, to declassify the positions of Fire Chief…