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Dear Mr. Jones:

This office is in receipt of your request for an opinion of the Attorney General in regard to residency and qualification to seek office. You indicate there is an individual in Jonesboro who is considering candidacy for Sheriff of Jackson Parish, and the individual in question has lived in Louisiana for more than two years. However, you further related that his primary residence since August, 2001 has been a home in Ouachita Parish owned by his wife, her mother, and her brother jointly, but he and his wife did not claim the homestead exemption for 2002 inasmuch as they felt…