§2065. Outgoing tax collectors; duties

All outgoing tax collectors, except those in the city of New Orleans, shall hand over to the recorders of their several parishes their lists of all unpaid or delinquent taxes as soon as their successors are qualified or they retire or are removed from office. All outgoing tax collectors for the city of New Orleans shall, without delay, hand over their respective lists of delinquent or unpaid taxes to the auditor, together with all books, papers and documents relating to or belonging to said tax collector's office; the auditor shall deliver them to the newly-appointed tax collectors as soon as they are qualified according to law. In the several parishes of the state, other than the city of New Orleans, the recorders shall deliver to the newly-appointed tax collectors the delinquent or unpaid tax lists which were deposited with them by the outgoing tax collectors, on the certificate of the auditor or police jury, certifying that said collectors have qualified in accordance with the law; such delinquent lists shall be handed over by such outgoing tax collectors within one month from the day when their successors were duly qualified; under a penalty of one thousand dollars in parishes other than Orleans, and of five thousand dollars in the parish of Orleans. This penalty shall be sued for and collected from the tax collectors so offending by the attorney general of the state in the city of New Orleans, and by the district attorneys in the other parishes, upon information from the auditor or the parish governing authorities.

H.C.R. No. 88, 1993 R.S., eff. May 30, 1993; H.C.R. No. 1, 1994 R.S., eff. May 11, 1994.