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- RS 18:451.1 · Local ordinances affecting the qualifications of candidates
- RS 18:451.2 · Qualifications of candidates for sheriff, tax assessor, and clerk of court
- RS 18:451.3 · Displaced persons seeking to qualify; domicile, residence
- RS 18:452 · Classification of candidates
- RS 18:453 · Dual candidacy
- RS 18:454 · Campaign Sign Recycling Fund
- RS 18:461 · Manner of qualifying
- RS 18:461.1 · Ethics education requirement; certification for ethics education
- RS 18:462 · Officials with whom candidates qualify
- RS 18:463 · Notice of candidacy; campaign finance disclosure; political advertising; penalties
- RS 18:464 · Qualifying fees; additional fees imposed by political party committees; financial statements
- RS 18:465 · Nominating petitions
- RS 18:466 · Time for qualifying in a primary election
- RS 18:467 · Opening of qualifying period
- RS 18:467.1 · Repealed by Acts 2024, No. 640, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 2026.
- RS 18:467.2 · Repealed by Acts 2020, No. 28, §5, eff. Dec. 31, 2020.
- RS 18:468 · Close of the qualifying period
- RS 18:469 · Reopening of qualifying period; effect
- RS 18:470 · Disposition of notices of candidacy; qualifying fees; nomination petitions
- RS 18:470.1 · List of candidates
- RS 18:471 · Acts performed with or by clerk of court
- RS 18:481 · Candidates who qualify for a general election
- RS 18:482 · Number of candidates who may qualify for a general election
- RS 18:483 · Effect of tie vote in a primary election
- RS 18:491 · Standing to object to candidacy
- RS 18:492 · Grounds for an objection to candidacy
- RS 18:493 · Time for objecting to candidacy
- RS 18:494 · Effect of sustaining an objection to candidacy
- RS 18:495 · Initiation of action by district attorney; attorney general; court costs and attorney fees
- RS 18:501 · Procedure for withdrawal
- RS 18:502 · Effect of withdrawal
- RS 18:503 · Notice of withdrawal and disqualification
- RS 18:503.1 · Notice of cancellation of proposition
- RS 18:511 · Election of candidates in a primary election
- RS 18:512 · Election of candidates in a general election
- RS 18:513 · Certification of candidates elected
- RS 18:514 · Repealed by Acts 2018, No. 584, §4, eff. May 28, 2018.
- RS 18:521 · Qualifications of voters
- RS 18:522 · Number of candidates for whom a voter may vote
- RS 18:523 · Americans with Disabilities Act compliance officer
- RS 18:524 · Voting Accessibility Advisory Group
- RS 18:531 · Places for voting in primary and general elections
- RS 18:531.1 · Exception to opening polls; alternative voting locations
- RS 18:532 · Establishment of precincts
- RS 18:532.1 · Changing boundaries
- RS 18:533 · Establishment and location of polling places; responsibility for acts or omissions
- RS 18:534 · Change of polling places
- RS 18:535 · Notice of location of precincts and polling places
- RS 18:536 · Notice of change of location of polling place
- RS 18:537 · Enforcement, venue; penalty
- RS 18:541 · Opening and closing of the polls
- RS 18:542 · Termination of voting
- RS 18:551 · Ballots
- RS 18:552 · Election materials
- RS 18:553 · Inspection and preparation of voting machines at polling places; precinct registers and supplemental list
- RS 18:553.1 · Repealed by Acts 2021, No. 480, §3, eff. July 1, 2021.
- RS 18:561 · Poll lists
- RS 18:562 · Prerequisites to voting
- RS 18:563 · Procedure for voting
- RS 18:564 · Assistance in voting on election day
- RS 18:565 · Challenge of voters
- RS 18:566 · Provisional voting for federal office; polling place and early voting
- RS 18:566.1 · Provisional voting for federal office; order for extension of poll hours during an election for federal office
- RS 18:566.2 · Tabulation and counting of provisional ballots for federal office
- RS 18:567 · Administrative complaint procedure; scope
- RS 18:567.1 · Definitions
- RS 18:567.2 · Filing a complaint
- RS 18:567.3 · Processing of complaint
- RS 18:567.4 · Computation of time
- RS 18:567.5 · Exemption
- RS 18:567.6 · Judicial review
- RS 18:571 · Procedures for commissioners after termination of voting
- RS 18:572 · Transmission of election returns; voting machine keys; machine certificates
- RS 18:573 · Evidence of election results
- RS 18:574 · Compilation and promulgation of returns
- RS 18:575 · Official results of a primary or general election
- RS 18:576 · Election night returns
- RS 18:581 · Definitions
- RS 18:582 · Applicability
- RS 18:583 · Procedure for anticipated vacancies
- RS 18:584 · Repealed by Acts 1980, No. 792, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 1981; Acts 1981, No. 76, §2, eff. June 26, 1981
- RS 18:585 · Repealed by Acts 2023, No. 91, §2, eff. June 6, 2023.
- RS 18:586 · Vacancies caused by retirement, resignation, or removal; prohibitions
- RS 18:591 · Vacancy in office of elective members of state boards and commissions
- RS 18:601 · Vacancy in state legislative office; legislative service
- RS 18:602 · Vacancies in certain local and municipal offices; exceptions
- RS 18:603 · Persons designated to assume duties of vacant offices; salary and emoluments; power to appoint
- RS 18:604 · Marshal of city or municipal court; temporary absence; vacancy
- RS 18:621 · Vacancy in office of judge
- RS 18:651 · Applicability
- RS 18:652 · Retirements and resignations
- RS 18:653 · Transmission of notices of retirements and resignations
- RS 18:654 · Effect of filing of resignations
- RS 18:671 · Judgment declaring office vacant
- RS 18:672 · Filing of complaint
- RS 18:673 · Official's opinion
- RS 18:674 · Procedure
- RS 18:675 · Subpart not exclusive
- RS 18:1251 · Election; time of electing
- RS 18:1252 · Qualifications