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File #: 2024-0305    Version: Name: Amend Code, Chapter 8, Elections, Sec. 8-2., Visible voting precinct boundaries and polling places., to provide for a permanent change of Polling Places for Precincts 4-1 and 4-1A
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 9/9/2024 In control: Parish Council
On agenda: 9/23/2024 Final action: 9/23/2024
Enactment date: Enactment #: 24-9-11
Title: An ordinance to amend the St. Charles Parish Code of Ordinances, Chapter 8, Elections, Sec. 8-2., Visible voting precinct boundaries and polling places., to provide for a permanent change of Polling Places for Precincts 4-1 and 4-1A.
Sponsors: Willie Comardelle
Indexes: Creating Wards, Precincts, Districts, etc., Election, Fire Protection District No. 7 (Des Allemands)
Attachments: 1. 2024-0305 2024 09 20_ Polling Place Lease Agreement, 2. 2024-0305 Final Ord 24-9-11 with lease, 3. 2024-0305 FW_ St. Charles Parish Emergency Permanent Polling Location Move_ Precincts 04_1, 04_1A, 4. 2024-0305 Recordation Documents
2024-0305
INTRODUCED BY: WILLIE COMARDELLE, COUNCILMAN, DISTRICT IV
ORDINANCE NO. ___________
Title
An ordinance to amend the St. Charles Parish Code of Ordinances, Chapter 8, Elections, Sec. 8-2., Visible voting precinct boundaries and polling places., to provide for a permanent change of Polling Places for Precincts 4-1 and 4-1A.
Body
WHEREAS, as a result of the concern of the Allemands Elementary School foyer area not being large enough to host a Presidential Election, a permanent change is required to facilitate elections for Precincts 4-1 and 4-1A.
WHEREAS, the Parish desires to enter into a Polling Place Lease Agreement with the Des Allemands Volunteer Fire Department for the premises located at 16960 Highway 90, Des Allemands, Louisiana 70030, for use as a polling place in accordance with Title 18, Section 533 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes.
THE ST. CHARLES PARISH COUNCIL HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION I. That the St. Charles Parish Code of Ordinances, Chapter 8, Elections, Sec. 8- 2., Visible voting precinct boundaries and polling places. is amended by adding new text underlined and deleted text in strikethrough:

Precinct 4-1 and 4-1A. The region bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the point of intersection of the Saint Charles/Saint John the Baptist Parish line and center flow channel of the Saint Charles Canal, and proceeding southerly along the center flow channel of the Saint Charles Canal and the Eighty Arpent Canal to its intersection with the center flow channel of the Vial Canal, and proceeding easterly along the center flow channel of the Vial Canal to its intersection with the centerline of Louisiana Highway 3127, and proceeding southerly along the centerline of Louisiana Highway 3127 to its intersection with the center flow channel of the Eighty Arpent Canal, and proceeding westerly along the center flow channel of the Eighty Arpent Canal to its intersection with the center flow channel of the Paradis Canal, and proceeding...

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