RS 15:804 Board of governors
§804. Board of governors
A. The board of governors shall be composed of each sheriff and one member of each of the governing authorities appointed by the governing authority of each parish within the multiparish prison area.
B. The president of the board of governors shall be the sheriff of the parish in which the prison is domiciled. The president of the board of governors shall be the administrator of the multiparish prison. The appointed member of the governing authority of the parish where the multiparish prison is domiciled shall be the secretary of the board and the parish treasurer shall be ex officio treasurer.
C. In any parish having a population of not less than eight thousand nor more than fourteen thousand, or having a population between fourteen thousand seven hundred fifty and fifteen thousand two hundred fifty, where only one parish governs and administers a prison district, the board of governors shall be composed of the president of the police jury of the administering parish and two other police jurors to be appointed by the police jury of the parish. The members of the board of governors shall elect one of their number president and one vice president. The clerk of the police jury of the parish where the prison district is domiciled shall be the secretary of the board and the parish treasurer shall be ex officio treasurer.
D. The members of the board of governors other than the sheriffs shall be paid the same mileage and per diem in going to or returning from any regular or special meeting as is now paid to the members of the governing authorities of the parishes within the multiparish prison area, but they shall not receive pay for more than twelve meetings during any one year.
Amended by Acts 1954, No. 521, §1; Acts 1970, No. 461, §1; Acts 1972, No. 631, §1; Acts 1980, No. 233, §1; Acts 1991, No. 122, §1; Acts 2001, No. 724, §1, eff. June 25, 2001.