§1226. Organization of police jury; personal responsibility of police jurors
A. Police jurors elected in the state general election of 1983 and thereafter shall on the second Monday in January next succeeding their election meet at the courthouse of their respective parishes, take the oath of office, organize and proceed to the discharge of their duties, and the police jury shall elect a president from their own number. The police jury may also, in its discretion, elect a vice president who shall serve as president in the absence or inability of the president to serve for any reason. If there be, for any cause whatsoever, any failure to organize at the time provided for in this Section, then those who do meet shall fix some other time, not to exceed one month, and cause the members to be notified by the sheriff of such time of meeting, and on that day they shall meet and organize. A majority shall constitute a quorum, and shall organize and proceed to business.
B. No member shall be held personally responsible for performing or failure to perform a ministerial duty incumbent upon him as a police juror where such duties are delegated to him by the police jury as a whole. The provisions of this Sub-section shall not be interpreted to relieve any police juror from liability for negligence from his own tortious acts.
C. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 18:571, R.S. 42:141 or any other provisions of law to the contrary, the governor shall issue commissions to the duly elected police jurors within thirty days prior to the taking of office by the police jurors in their respective parishes.
Amended by Acts 1954, No. 574, §1; Acts 1963, No. 53, §1; Acts 1964, No. 526, §2; Acts 1968, No. 443, §1; Acts 1977, No. 117, §1.
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