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La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4 (2026)

Election, tenure, oath of office, salary of commissioner

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§4.  Election, tenure, oath of office, salary of commissioner

A.  The commissioner of agriculture shall be elected by the qualified electors at each general state election held for the governor and other state officers.  He shall hold office for a term of four years.  In case of a vacancy in the office, the governor, with consent of the senate, shall fill the vacancy for the unexpired term as provided by the constitution.

B.  The commissioner shall take the oath prescribed for other state officers.

C.  Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 846, §4, eff. Jan. 8, 1996.

Amended by Acts 1950, No. 60, §1; Acts 1952, No. 397, §1; Acts 1956, No. 125, §1; Acts 1960, No. 572, §1; Acts 1965, No. 61, §1; Acts 1966, No. 65, §1; Acts 1969, No. 11, §1; Acts 1974, No. 433, §7; Acts 1979, No. 236, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 1979; Acts 1980, No. 376, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 1980; Acts 1981, No. 636, §3, eff. Sept. 1, 1981; Acts 1995, No. 846, §4, eff. Jan. 8, 1996.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1992–2019 · leading case: Green v. Indus. Helicopters, Inc., 593 So. 2d 634 (La. 1992).
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Green v. Indus. Helicopters, Inc., 593 So. 2d 634 (La. 1992). “[8] The latter are among the cases upon which the court of appeal in this case bases its conclusion, and Industrial relies, for its position that Article 2317 conflicts with the general maritime law.”
Palmer v. Louisiana Forestry Comm'n, 683 So. 2d 739 (La. Ct. App. 1996). “Further, LSA-R.S. 3:4€¾; provides that no person shall compute the measurement of saw logs for severance tax purposes by any other rule or scale than the Doyle Log Rule.”
Ictech-Bendeck v. Waste Connections Bayou, Inc. (E.D. La. 2019). “76 Sadler, 2011 WL 3502467, at *2 (citing 1 McLaughlin on Class Actions, § 3:4 (6th ed.)). 77 Id. (permitting a class action based on a mass tort to survive a motion to dismiss so that plaintiffs could more concretely define the class at the certification stage).”
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