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Dear Representative Waddell:

You have requested that this Office opine on whether the territorial jurisdiction of certain Caddo Justices of the Peace and Constables wards are diminished by the annexations of portions of those wards into the City of Shreveport. Additionally, you ask if the qualified electors in those portions of the wards annexed into the city would still be allowed to vote for a justice of the peace and constable as well as for a city court judge.

First, the general rule on this issue is found in La.R.S. 13:1872. Paragraph (A)(1) states in pertinent part:

A. (1) In all wards…