re: LA. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of St. George Incorporators

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And now with this judgement at minimum everything north of Perkins will annex into BR.

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No they won’t. There was nothing preventing them from requesting annexation before now. The city of BR can not just unilaterally annex places, it has to be requested. There is an actual legal process. They wil never meet the requirements for the areas north of Perkins.

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A.(1)(a)(i) No ordinance enlarging the boundaries of a municipality shall be valid unless, prior to the adoption thereof, a petition has been presented to the governing body of a municipality containing the written assent of a majority of the registered voters and a majority in number of the resident property owners as well as twenty-five percent in value of the property of the resident property owners within the area proposed to be included in the corporate limits, all according to the certificates of the parish assessor and parish registrar of voters

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