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Dear Mr. Jaques:

Your inquiry to this office is restated as follows:

May a police jury, in appointing new library board of control members, or in reappointing members whose terms have expired, set the new term to begin on the date of appointment or reappointment?

Our response to your question requires our review of R.S. 25:214, providing:

A. The governing authority of the municipality shall, in the ordinance creating a public library, name and appoint five citizens of the municipality as a board of control for such public library to serve for terms of one, two, three, four, and five years, the…