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- RS 18:132 · Offices furnished registrar; supplies; expenses
- RS 18:133 · Branch offices; mobile registration units; mandatory registration drives
- RS 18:133.1 · Temporary branch office; deputy registrar; appointment; compensation
- RS 18:134 · Office hours
- RS 18:135 · Close of registration
- RS 18:135.1 · Close of voter registration; plan by secretary of state; gubernatorial and legislative approval
- RS 18:151 · Custody of records
- RS 18:152 · Required records
- RS 18:152.1 · Destruction of records of the registrar of voters
- RS 18:153 · Tax rolls
- RS 18:154 · Records open to inspection; copying; exceptions
- RS 18:155 · Refusal or neglect to grant right of inspection; remedies
- RS 18:156 · Alteration, defacing, destruction, or removal of records
- RS 18:157 · Delivery of precinct registers to election authorities
- RS 18:158 · Retention of absentee by mail and early voting ballots and records; retention of registration records for federal elections
- RS 18:171 · Report of convictions of felony
- RS 18:171.1 · Conviction of felony in federal court; notification
- RS 18:172 · Judgment of interdiction for mental incompetence
- RS 18:173 · Deaths
- RS 18:174 · Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 60, §2, eff. May 16, 2014.
- RS 18:175 · Voting list from Department of State
- RS 18:176 · Suspension and cancellation of registration and challenge of unlawful registration on the basis of reports
- RS 18:177 · Reinstatement of registration after suspension
- RS 18:177.1 · Satisfaction of order of imprisonment; provision of information relative to registration and reinstatement
- RS 18:178 · Notification on jury venire
- RS 18:191 · Permanent registration
- RS 18:191.1 · Address confirmation notice
- RS 18:192 · Annual canvass; costs
- RS 18:193 · Challenge and cancellation of registration; notice; procedures
- RS 18:194 · Repealed by Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 10, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.
- RS 18:195 · Challenge of registrants in the United States Service or temporarily residing outside United States
- RS 18:196 · Inactive list of voters; procedure for voting
- RS 18:196.1 · Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 229, §5, eff. July 13, 1979
- RS 18:197 · Registration; cancellation
- RS 18:198 · Change of residence or change in address; inquiry by registrar; change of records
- RS 18:199 · New registration necessary after cancellation
- RS 18:200 · Repealed by Acts 2017, No. 176, §5, eff. June 14, 2017.
- RS 18:201 · Change of address caused by action of a parish or municipal governing authority; use of information furnished by U.S. Postal Service
- RS 18:221 · Redesignated to R.S. 18:66 by Acts 2017, No. 176, §6, eff. June 14, 2017.
- RS 18:401 · Purpose and nature of primary and general elections
- RS 18:401.1 · Election emergency; purpose; elections emergency contingency plan
- RS 18:401.2 · Change to polling places; state of emergency
- RS 18:401.3 · Emergency plan by secretary of state; gubernatorial and legislative approval
- RS 18:401.4 · Emergency actions by the secretary of state
- RS 18:402 · Dates of primary and general elections; prohibited election days
- RS 18:402.1 · Repealed by Acts 2025, No. 6, §3, eff. Dec. 31, 2025.
- RS 18:403 · Election records and papers; preservation; public record
- RS 18:404 · Ranked-choice voting and instant runoff voting prohibited; exception
- RS 18:410.1 · Party primary elections
- RS 18:410.2 · Party primary office; party primary qualifications
- RS 18:410.3 · Purpose and nature of party primary elections
- RS 18:410.4 · Manner of qualifying for a party primary election
- RS 18:410.5 · Nominating petitions
- RS 18:410.6 · Death of a candidate; procedure; selection of party nominee
- RS 18:410.7 · Party candidates who qualify for a general election
- RS 18:410.8 · Candidates not affiliated with a major political party; qualifying for the general election
- RS 18:410.9 · Nomination of candidates in a party primary election; general election; unopposed candidate
- RS 18:410.10 · Party primary elections
- RS 18:411 · Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 60, §2, eff. May 16, 2014.
- RS 18:412 · Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 60, §2, eff. May 16, 2014.
- RS 18:413 · Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 60, §2, eff. May 16, 2014.
- RS 18:414 · Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 60, §2, eff. May 16, 2014.
- RS 18:415 · Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 60, §2, eff. May 16, 2014.
- RS 18:416 · Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 60, §2, eff. May 16, 2014.
- RS 18:417 · Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 60, §2, eff. May 16, 2014.
- RS 18:418.1 · Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 729, §2, eff. June 1, 2014.
- RS 18:418.2 · Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 729, §2, eff. June 1, 2014.
- RS 18:419.1 · Applicability of Part
- RS 18:419.2 · Spring elections in 2026
- RS 18:421 · Secretary of state; first assistant and other employees of the secretary of state
- RS 18:422 · Clerks of court; deputy clerks and other employees of the clerk
- RS 18:423 · Parish boards of election supervisors
- RS 18:424 · Commissioners-in-charge
- RS 18:425 · Commissioners
- RS 18:425.1 · Consolidation of polling places; reduction of voting machines and election officials
- RS 18:425.2 · Election officials; requirements and prohibitions
- RS 18:426 · Alternate commissioners; qualifications, powers, and duties; oath and compensation
- RS 18:426.1 · Election commissioners; compensation
- RS 18:427 · Watchers
- RS 18:428 · Law enforcement assistance to commissioners
- RS 18:429 · Clerk of court; notification of cyber incidents
- RS 18:431 · Commissioners; courses of instruction; certificates; reports; list of certified persons furnished by parish board of election supervisors
- RS 18:431.1 · Examinations for courses of instruction
- RS 18:432 · Repealed by Acts 1988, No. 907, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1989.
- RS 18:433 · Commissioners-in-charge; course of instruction; selection; commission; disqualification; replacement
- RS 18:434 · Commissioners and alternate commissioners; selection; commission; disqualification; replacement
- RS 18:435 · Watchers; appointment and commission
- RS 18:436 · Election officials at certain special elections
- RS 18:441 · Recognition
- RS 18:442 · Organization
- RS 18:443 · State central committee
- RS 18:443.1 · State central committee; composition and apportionment
- RS 18:443.2 · Alternate method; election; composition and apportionment
- RS 18:444 · Parish executive committees
- RS 18:445 · Parish executive committees; formation in parishes where no committee has been elected
- RS 18:445.1 · Political party committees; election
- RS 18:446 · Candidates for membership on political party committees; method of qualifying for a primary election
- RS 18:447 · Parish executive committees; fundraising
- RS 18:448 · Vacancies in the state central committee or parish executive committee of a recognized political party
- RS 18:451 · Qualifications of candidates