261 So. 3d 12 - Lestage v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Mr. Harris contends that it was error for the trial court to consider any residency events that occurred before he was sworn into office on July 2, 2018. We disagree. Both sections of the city's charter address an "elected" official's dual requirements of being domiciled and actually residing in the city of DeRidder. Section 2-04(1) (emphasis added) reaches back to a year before the qualifying papers were filed, stating that the "council member elected at large[,]" not the candidate, " shall have been legally domiciled and shall have actually resided for at least one (1) year immediately preceding the time ... for qualifying for office in an area which, at the time of qualification, is within the city ." While the DA's petition addresses Section 2-04(2), the continuing obligation of the council member to be legally domiciled and to actually reside in the city, the pleading has been expanded by the evidence, without objection, to include the violation of Section 2-04(1), as originally alleged by the complainant, Mr. Roberts. See La.Code Civ.P. art. 1154.”

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   e.g. Harrington v. Bell

2. “When any voter lawfully registered in the district or geographical area from which an officeholder has been elected, or from which an officeholder has been appointed or otherwise selected to hold an office, has reason to believe that the officeholder no longer meets the residence or domicile requirements of that office , the voter may make a written complaint of that fact to the proper official.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harrington v. Bell

3. “'Vacancy' occurs in an elective office ... when the person elected to or holding the office no longer meets the residence or domicile requirements of that office [.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harrington v. Bell