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CHARTER COM'N OF CITY OF ALEXANDRIA v. KARST

No. 52266.

272 So.2d 348 (1973)

The CHARTER COMMISSION OF the CITY OF ALEXANDRIA et al. v. C. Edward KARST, Mayor, City of Alexandria, Louisiana, et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 15, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stafford, Pitts & Bolen, Grove Stafford, Sr., Alexandria, for plaintiffs-applicants.

Gist, Methvin & Trimble, Howard B. Gist, Jr., Alexandria, for defendants-respondents.

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 the legislature provide by general law...

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