Charter Commission of Alexandria v. Karst

SUMMERS, Justice.

Because of a home rule amendment to the constitution in 1952, Louisiana’s legislature may not pass any local or special law creating municipal corporations or amending, modifying or repealing their charters, with the exception of municipalities then operating under special legislative charters. La.Const. Art. 14, Sec. 40(a). The amendment did, however, require that *350the legislature provide by general law a method whereby municipalities could frame and adopt a home rule charter by a vote of the majority of its qualified electors. Home rule charters so adopted are to be amended,…