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File #: 2019-0322    Version: Name: Request Legal Advisor acknowledge receipt of and responds in writing whether or not it is the duty and obligation of the Parish Legal Advisor to provide legal advice to Councilmembers when requested, relative to the wording of proposed ordinances
Type: Resolution Status: Postponed (Council Rule 8)
File created: 12/2/2019 In control: Parish Council
On agenda: 12/2/2019 Final action: 1/14/2020
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: A resolution of the St. Charles Parish Council requesting that Parish Legal Advisor Robert Raymond acknowledge receipt of and responds in writing within five (5) days of the effective date of this resolution to the request for a legal opinion that was requested in a letter dated August 2, 2019, sent by Mr. Paul J. Hogan, Councilman-at-Large of Division B, having subsequently been resent thirty (30) times over the last three (3) months with no response or acknowledgement of receipt having ever being received, whether or not it is the duty and obligation of the Parish Legal Advisor to provide legal advice to Councilmembers when requested, relative to the wording of proposed ordinances so as to help produce draft ordinances, that if adopted, would be enforceable and able to withstand legal challenges if adopted.
Sponsors: Paul J. Hogan
Indexes: Legal Services (Dept. of)
Attachments: 1. 2019-0322 backup 30 times, 2. 2019-0322 backup (26 times).pdf, 3. 2019-0322 backup.pdf, 4. 2019-0322 Postponed Reso, 5. 2019-0322 Failed proposed Reso (11-18-19), 6. 2019-0322 Postponed Rule 8 proposed Reso
Related files: 2017-0206, 2016-0360, 2017-0376, 2019-0401
2019-0322
INTRODUCED BY: PAUL J. HOGAN, PE, COUNCILMAN-AT-LARGE, DIVISION B
RESOLUTION NO.
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A resolution of the St. Charles Parish Council requesting that Parish Legal Advisor Robert Raymond acknowledge receipt of and responds in writing within five (5) days of the effective date of this resolution to the request for a legal opinion that was requested in a letter dated August 2, 2019, sent by Mr. Paul J. Hogan, Councilman-at-Large of Division B, having subsequently been resent thirty (30) times over the last three (3) months with no response or acknowledgement of receipt having ever being received, whether or not it is the duty and obligation of the Parish Legal Advisor to provide legal advice to Councilmembers when requested, relative to the wording of proposed ordinances so as to help produce draft ordinances, that if adopted, would be enforceable and able to withstand legal challenges if adopted.
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NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, THAT WE, THE MEMBERS OF THE ST. CHARLES PARISH COUNCIL, request that Parish Legal Advisor Robert Raymond acknowledge receipt of and responds in writing within five (5) days of the effective date of this resolution to the request for a legal opinion that was requested in a letter dated August 2, 2019, sent by Mr. Paul J. Hogan, Councilman-at-Large of Division B, having subsequently been resent thirty (30) times over the last three (3) months with no response or acknowledgement of receipt having ever being received, whether or not it is the duty and obligation of the Parish Legal Advisor to provide legal advice to Councilmembers when requested, relative to the wording of proposed ordinances so as to help produce draft ordinances, that if adopted, would be enforceable and able to withstand legal challenges if adopted.
The foregoing resolution having been submitted to a vote, the vote thereon was as follows:




And the resolution was declared adopted this day of , 2019, to become effe...

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