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Plan of Government

Chapter 1
General Provisions

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Chapter 2
Governing Bodies

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Chapter 3
Governing Bodies -
Powers and Duties

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Chapter 4
Mayor President

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Chapter 5
Department of
Public Works

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Chapter 6
Police Department

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Chapter 7
Fire Department

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Chapter 8
Finance

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Chapter 9
Personnel

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Chapter 10
Planning and Zoning

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Chapter 11
Miscellaneous

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Index
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January, 2008
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ADOPTED
AUGUST 12, 1947
EFFECTIVE
JANUARY 1, 1949

AMENDED

JULY 29, 1952
NOVEMBER 6, 1956
NOVEMBER 3, 1964
NOVEMBER 8, 1966
NOVEMBER 3, 1970
FEBRUARY 1, 1972
OCTOBER 27, 1979
SEPTEMBER 11, 1982
APRIL 16, 1988
OCTOBER 6, 1990
NOVEMBER 18, 1995
NOVEMBER 5, 1996
NOVEMBER 3, 1998
OCTOBER 20, 2007

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Index

ACCOUNTING:
Control of Purchasing 4.10
Purchasing agent to establish system of 4.08
System maintained by Director of Finance 8.01b

ACTUARIAL STUDY 9.15
Administrative Officer 4.14

AIRPORT COMMISSION, city may create 3.01c

AIRPORTS, city to run 3.01c

ALLOTMENTS:
Department head to request 8.16
Director of finance to keep separate records of 8.01b
Enforcement of 8.16
Necessary before contracts can be approved 8.01e
Revision of  8.16
Statements of 8.01h

AMENDMENT:
Capital budget 8.11
Current expense budget 8.15
Plan of government 11.09

APPROPRIATIONS:
Additional, when permitted 8.18
City Court supported by 11.04
Cost of tax collection paid by 8.05
Department of public works supported by 5.03
Fire department supported by 7.04
Lapse of 8.19
Mayor-President's office supported by 4.13
Ordinances 2.12
Parish attorney's office supported by 11.01
Planning commission supported by 11.01
Police department supported by 6.04
Recreation and park commission supported by 11.02
Separate accounts kept of 8.01b
Statements relating to 8.01h
Totals in budgets to constitute 8.15
Transfer of 8.17

APPEAL,
Additions to urban area 1.09

AUDIT:
Annual 8.21
Director of finance to make 8.01f,g
Metropolitan Council to prescribe 8.21

BAKER:
Part of rural area 1.05
Tax limit 1.11

BATON ROUGE, CITY OF:
Airports maintained by 3.01c
Bonded indebtedness 1.06
Boundaries 1.03
Charter continued 1.03
City constable for continued 11.05
City court and judge continued 11.04
Department of public works 5.01
Dumps transferred to 1.07
Excess revenue bonds 1.06
Extension of boundaries 1.03
Fiscal year for 8.06
Franchises granted by 3.01b
Garbage collection equipment transferred to 1.07
Governing body 2.04
Incinerators transferred to 1.07
Indebtedness of 1.06
Justices of peace for abolished 11.06
Mayor-President chief officer of 4.03
May supply services to rural area 1.08c
Old city continued 1.03
Planning commission 10.03
Police department for 6.01
Prior powers continued 3.03
Road equipment of transferred to parish 1.07
Recreation facilities of transferred to recreation commission 1.07
Services to urban area supplied by 1.08a
Special districts within 1.04
Street lighting supplied by 3.01b
Taxing power 3.04
Traffic regulate by 3.01b
Utilities regulate by 3.01b
Ward constable for abolished 11.06

BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS:
Attendance Requirements 2.17
Uniform term lenght  2.17
Term limits 2.18

BOARD OF CONTROL:
Public Library 11.03

BONDED INDEBTEDNESS, See Indebtedness, this index

BONDS:
Elections 8.24
See also, Excess Revenue Bonds, this index
Existing indebtedness 1.06
Fire protection system financed by 7.01
Taxpayers petitioning for additional industrial areas to post 1.10

BOUNDARIES:
City of Baton Rouge 1.03
Extension of, City of Baton Rouge 1.03
Extension of, towns and villages 1.05
Extension of, urban area 1.09
Industrial areas 1.08b
Rural area 1.08c
Urban area 1.08a

BUDGET:
Capital appropriations, lapse of 8.19
Capital, contents of 8.11
Capital, final date for passage 8.11
Capital, planning commission to prepare 10.04
Current expense, action of 8.15
Current expense, copy of 8.15
Current expense, date for adoption 8.15
Current expense, effective date of 8.15
Estimates for prepared by Director of Finance 8.01a
Current expense, lapse of appropriations 8.10
Current expense, publication of 8.15
Current expense, scope of 8.09
Estimated expenditures not to exceed anticipated cash receipts 8.09
Messages submitted by Mayor-President 8.12
Officer 2.16
Publication of 8.13
Public hearings on 8.14
Public nature of 8.13
Submitted to council 8.08

CAPITAL BUDGET, See Budget, this index

CHAPTER,
City of Baton Rouge, continued 1.03

CHIEF OF POLICE:
Mayor-President to appoint 4.03
Police department headed by 6.02
Powers and duties 6.02
Power to appoint and remove personnel 6.02

CITY, See Baton Rouge, City of, this index

CITY, BUDGET, See Budget, this index

CITY CLERK, See Council Administrator, this index

CITY CONSTABLE, See Baton Rouge, City of, this index

CITY COUNCIL, See Metropolitan Council, this index

CITY COURT, See Baton Rouge, City of, this index

CITY JUDGE, See Baton Rouge, City of, this index

CITY TREASURER, See Parish Treasurer, this index

CIVIL SERVICE:
Fire department continued under 7.03
Police department continued under 6.03

CLASSIFIED SERVICE, See Personnel, this index

COMPENSATION:
Council 2.05
City Judge 11.04
Council Administrator 2.08
Director of Finance 8.22
Director of Public Works 5.03
Mayor-President 4.02
Parish Attorney 11.01
Parish Treasurer 8.22
Purchasing Agent 4.13

COMPETITIVE BIDDING:
Records of bids kept 4.11
Required for purchases and sales 4.09
Transactions not to be divided 4.12

CONTRACTS:
Director of Finance to examine and approve 8.01e
Invalid, when 4.10
Made pursuant only to written requisition 4.10
Necessity for competitive bidding 4.09
Professional services . 4.09
Records concerning 4.11

COUNCIL ADMINISTRATOR:
Also City Clerk 2.08
Appointed by Council 2.08
Compensation set by Council 2.08
Copies of ordinance reproduced by 2.12
Cost of office included in parish and city budget 2.08
Duties 2.08
Matters concerning ordinance published by . 2.12

COUNCIL BUDGET OFFICER 2.16

CURRENT EXPENSE BUDGET, See Budget, this index

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE 8.01

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS:
Additional divisions 5.02h
Airports controlled by 3.01c
Creation of 5.01
Director of 5.04
Division of central garage 5.02d
Division of engineering 5.02a
Division of inspections 5.02g
Division of public building maintenance 5.02c
Division of refuse collection 5.02f
Division of sewer maintenance 5.02e
Division of street maintenance 5.02b
Financing 5.03
Functions of 5.02
Organization 5.02

DEPARTMENTAL ESTIMATES,
Where filed 8.07

DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF FINANCE, Appointment
powers and duties 8.01k

DIRECTOR OF FINANCE:
Accounts of audited 8.21
Allotments filed with 8.16
Budgets copies filed in office of 8.15
Cash surplus certified by 8.18
Certification of funds by 8.20
City taxes collected by 8.05
Compensation fixed by council 8.22
Department of Finance headed by 8.01
Department estimates filed with 8.07
Deputy Director designated by 8.01k
Duties of 8.01
Form of written requisition prescribed by 4.10
Mayor-President to appoint 4.03
Qualifications of 8.01
Surety bond posted by 8.04

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS:
Compensation 5.03
Mayor-President to appoint 4.03
Member of Planning Commission designated by 10.01
Qualifications, powers and duties 5.04

DISBURSEMENTS 8.03

DISTRICTS, SPECIAL:
Created in urban area 1.08c
Creation of new 1.04, 1.08a
Old ones continued 1.04

DIVIDED TRANSACTIONS, Prohibited 4.12

DIVISION OF ENGINEERING:
Financing 5.03
Generally 5.02a

DIVISION OF CENTRAL GARAGE:
Financing 5.03
Generally 5.02d

DIVISION OF INSPECTIONS:
Financing 5.03
Generally 5.02g

DIVISION OF PUBLIC BUILDING MAINTENANCE:
Financing 5.03
Generally 5.02c

DIVISION OF PURCHASING:
Financing 4.13
Generally 4.07

DIVISION OF REFUSE COLLECTION:
Financing 5.03
Generally 5.02f

DIVISION OF SEWER MAINTENANCE:
Financing 5.03
Generally 5.02e

DIVISION OF STREET MAINTENANCE:
Financing 5.03
Generally 5.02b

DRAINAGE DISTRICTS, OLD ones continued 1.04

DUAL OFFICE HOLDINGS:
Members of classified service 9.10
Members of personnel board 9.02
Prohibited 2.03

DUMPS, Transferred to city 1.07

EAST BATON ROUGE, PARISH OF:
Additional municipalities therein 1.05
Council Budget Officer 2.16
Department of Public Works 5.01
Fiscal year for 8.06
Governing body 2.01
Industrial area 1.08b
Justices of Peace for 11.06
Mayor-President Chief Executive Officer of 4.03
Old parish continued 1.02
Planning Commission 10.03
Powers and duties 1.02
Property of transferred to city 1.07
Public Library 11.03
Recreation and Park Commission for 11.02
Rural area 1.08c
Road equipment transferred to 1.07
School board not affected by Plan of Government 11.07
Sidewalks and public ways maintained by 3.01b
Special districts within 1.04
Taxing power 3.04
Urban area 1.08a
Ward Constable for 11.06

ELECTION: See also, Special Elections, this index
Bond and Tax Elections 8.24
Council members 2.01, 2.02
Mayor-President 4.01

ESTIMATES:
Budget 8.01a
Departmental 8.07

EXCESS REVENUE BONDS:
Fire protection system financed by 7.01
Payment 1.06

FINANCIAL STATEMENT, Director of Finance to prepare 8.01i

FIRE CHIEF:
Duties and powers 7.02
Mayor-President to appoint 4.03

FIRE DEPARTMENT:
Chief head of 7.01
Composition of 7.01
Continued under Civil Service 7.03
Financing of 7.01, 7.04
Organization of 7.02
Pension continued 9.15
Personnel subject to general laws of state 9.01
Responsibilities of 7.01
Services supplied to industrial area only in emergency 1.08c

FIRE PROTECTION:
Industrial area 1.08b,1.10
Rural area 1.08b
Urban area 1.08a

FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT NO. 1:
Employees of transferred to City Fire Department 7.03
Property of transferred to city 1.07

FISCAL YEAR, Same as calendar year 8.06

FRANCHISES, City to grant 3.01b

FUNDS:
Certification of 8.20
Custody of 8.02
Deposit of 8.01d
Expenditures of 8.03

GARBAGE COLLECTION:
City to make  1.08a
Equipment transferred to city 1.07
Industrial area 1.08b,1.10
Rural area 1.08c
Urban area 1.08a

GOVERNMENTAL UNITS:
City - See Baton Rouge, City of
Generally 1.01
Parish - See East Baton Rouge, Parish of
Special Districts - See Special Districts, this index
Towns - See Towns, this index
Villages - See Villages, this index

GOVERNING BODIES:
City of Baton Rouge 2.04
East Baton Rouge Parish 2.01

INCINERATORS, Transferred to city 1.07

INDEBTEDNESS:
Incurred before 1949, City of Baton Rouge 1.06
Power to incur 3.04

INDUSTRIAL AREA:
Addition to urban area 1.08b
Additions to industrial areas 1.10b
Alteration of buildings in  1.08b
Boundaries  1.08b
Certain services to be privately supplies  1.08b
Establishment of  1.10a
Minimum area  1.10a
Use of  1.08b

INSURANCE, Purchase of 4.07

INVENTORY, Maintenance of 4.08f

INVESTIGATION:
Councils to have power of 2.14
Personnel Board 9.11

JOURNAL:
Ayes and noes recorded in 2.09
Council Administrator to keep 2.08
Planning Commission 10.02

JUSTICES OF PEACE, See Baton Rouge, City of, this index
Also, East Baton Rouge, Parish of, this index

MAPS:
Custody of 5.02a
Division of Engineering to make  5.02

MAYOR, See Mayor-President, this index

MAYOR-PRESIDENT:
Actuarial study instituted by 9.15
Additional appropriations recommended by 8.18
Administrative Assistant 4.14
Budget message submitted by 8.12
Budgets submitted by 8.08
Capital budget submitted to 10.04
Capital expenditures recommended by 8.11
Chief Executive Officer of city and parish 4.03
Compensation 4.02
Continued in office until successor elected 11.08
Departmental estimates reviewed by 8.07
Duties of 4.04
Election of 4.01
Ex-officio member of Board of Control 11.03
Expense of office met by Council 4.13
Mayor, interpreted to mean  9.01
Member of Planning Commission designated by 10.01
Member of Recreation and Park Commission 11.02
Officials appointed by 4.03
Pay plans submitted to 9.03g, 9.07
Personnel Administrator appointed by 9.02
Powers of 4.03
Qualifications 4.01
Surety bond posted by 8.04
Term 4.01
Transfer of appropriations by 8.17
Vacancy in office of 4.06
Veto 2.15
Work program submitted to 8.16

METROPOLITAN COUNCIL:
Action on current expense budget 8.15
Additional powers 3.03
Allocation of parish revenues to city by 8.10
Annual audit prescribed by 8.21
Authorized to establish stores revolving fund 4.10
Budget Officer 2.16
Budget submitted to 8.08
Compensation 2.05
Composition 2.01
Cost of financial administration shared by 8.22
Cost of Mayor-President's Office met by 4.13
Council Administrator appointed by 2.08
Creation 2.01
Dual office holding prohibited 2.03
Election 2.01, 2.02
Expenses of city court borne by 11.04
Expenses of Parish Attorney borne by 11.01
Fire department financed by 7.04
Funds for adequate fire protection provided by 7.01
Interested members to refrain from voting 2.10
Journal of proceedings 2.08
Mayor-President to submit budget to 4.04c, 8.08
Meeting place 2.07
Meeting open to public, when necessary 2.09
Members continued in office until successor elected 11.08
Members of Board of Control appointed by 11.03
Members of Planning Commission appointed by 10.01
Organization 2.07
Parish Attorney legal advisor of 11.01
Police department financed by 6.04
Police department personnel provided by 6.01
Portion of expenses of Department of Public Works paid by 5.03

POWERS - Acceptance or rejection of proposed Capital
Expenditures 8.11
Generally 3.01
Investigation 2.14
Levy taxes and borrow money 3.04
Run airports 3.01c
Qualifications 2.03
Removal of members of Planning Commission by 10.01
Removal power 2.13
Rules of competitive bidding prescribed by 4.09
Rules of procedure 2.11
Surety Bonds prescribed by 8.04
Terms of members 2.02
Treasurer appointed by 8.02
Vacancies in 2.06
Zoning, power of 10.05

MEETINGS:
Council, place and time of 2.07, 2.11
Special  2.11

MISDEMEANOR, See Penalties, this index

MOTIONS, See Ordinances, this index

MOVABLE EQUIPMENT, Storage of 5.02d

ORGANIZATION:
Councils 2.07
Planning Commission 10.02

ORDINANCES:
Adopted by majority vote 2.09
Council Administrator to reproduce copies 2.12
Disapproved by Planning Commission, adoption by Council  10.05
Emergency  2.12
Increased urban area 1.09
Not to be adopted at same meeting at which introduced 2.12
Pension plan established by 9.15
Publication in Official Journal 2.12
Public hearing before adoption of 2.12
Procedure for passing 2.12
Zoning 10.05

PARISH, See East Baton Rouge, Parish of, this index

PARISH ATTORNEY 11.01

PARISH BUDGET, See Budget, this index

PARISH COUNCIL, See Metropolitan Council, this index

PARISH REVENUES, Allocation to city 8.10

PARISH TREASURER:
Accounts of audited 8.21
Appointed by Parish Council 8.02
Checks signed by 8.03
Compensation fixed by Council 8.22
Duties 8.02
Surety bond posted by  8.04

PAY PLANS 9.07

PENALTIES:
Expenditure of funds without certification 8.20
Refusing to obey order of council or committees 2.14
Use of industrial areas for residential purposes 1.08, 1.10
Violation of council regulations 3.03
Violation of order of Personnel Board 9.11
Violation of prohibited practices by Personnel 9.10
Voting when interested in ordinance 2.10

PENSIONS 9.15

PERSONNEL
Administrator - Appointment of 9.02
Classification plan prepared by 9.06
Duties 9.03
Mayor-President to appoint 4.03
Pay plans submitted by 9.07
Appointed only from eligible list 9.03d

Board
Composition 9.02
Duties 9.04
Investigations conducted by 9.11
Methods of appointment 9.02
Terms 9.02
Certification of pay rolls 9.03i
City system of 9.02
Classification plan 9.03f
Classification plan 9.06
Classified service 9.05
Competitive examinations 9.03b, 9.03c
Eligible list 9.03d
Employees of City Court members of system 11.04
Fire Department subject to general laws of state 9.01
General state law becoming applicable 9.14
Parish system of 9.02
Pay plans 9.03g, 9.07
Pay plans, contents 9.07
Pensions 9.15
Police Department, subject to general laws of the state 9.01
Preferred status given some employees 9.09
Prohibited practices 9.10
Promotions 9.08
Records 9.03j
Recreation and park commission subject to 11.02
Recruitment of 9.03k
Roster 9.03h
Rules adopted by board 9.04a
Status of present employees 9.09
System financed by parish 9.13
System supported by council appropriations 9.02
Temporary appointments 9.03e
Unclassified service 9.05
Vacancies 9.08
Veteran's preference 9.12

PLANNING COMMISSION:
Also Zoning Commission 10.05
Authority to make contracts 10.02
Chairman 10.02
Composition 10.01
Comprehensive Land Use Plan 10.04
Expenditures limited to amount of appropriations 10.02
Failure to act on ordinance 10.05
Member of Recreation and Park Commission 11.02
Organization 10.02
Powers and duties 10.03
Powers of appointment and removal 10.02
Proceedings to be public record 10.02
Public hearings in connection with Capital Budget 10.04
Qualifications of members 10.01
Removal from 10.01
Rules adopted by 10.02
Secretary 10.02
Terms of members 10.01a
Vacancies 10.01a

POLICE DEPARTMENT:
Chief of Police to head 6.02
Composition of 6.01
Continued under Civil Service 6.03
Duties of 6.01
Financing of 6.04
Organization of 6.02
Pensions continued 9.15
Personnel subject to general laws of state 9.01
Services supplied to industrial areas only in case of emergency 1.08b

POLICE PROTECTION:
Industrial areas 1.10
Rural area 1.08c
Urban area 1.08a

PRESCRIPTIVE PERIOD,
Attack on ordinance extending urban area 1.09

PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE:
Election of 2.07
Powers and duties 4.05

PROCEDURE:
For passing ordinances, etc 2.12
Rules of 2.11

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, Contract for 4.09

PUBLICATION:
Budget Matters 8.13
Classification plan 9.06
Emergency ordinances 2.12
Hearing to extend urban area 1.09
Notice of hearing extending urban area 1.09
Optional in council removal cases 2.13
Ordinance extending urban area 1.09
Proposed ordinances 2.12

PUBLIC BUILDING:
Construction of supervised 5.02a
Repair of 5.02c
Service for 5.02c

PUBLIC HEARING:
Adoption of ordinances 2.12
Budget 8.14
Classification plan 9.06
Conversion of industrial area into urban area 1.08b
Optional in personnel removal cases 4.03
Ordinance 2.12
Proposals to extend urban boundaries 1.09

PUBLIC LIBRARY:
Generally 11.03
Purchase of books for 4.07

PUBLIC RECORDS:
Budgets to be 8.13
Journals of councils to be 2.08

PUBLIC UTILITIES, City to regulate 3.01b

PUBLIC WAYS, Parish to maintain 3.01b

PURCHASES:
Competitive bidding required 4.09
Made by Purchasing Agent 4.07
Made pursuant only to written requisition 4.10

PURCHASING AGENT:
Compensation 4.13
Mayor-President to appoint 4.03
Powers and duties 4.07, 4.08
Qualifications 4.07
Records maintained by 4.11

RECORDS:
See also, Journals, this index
Contracts 4.11
Director of Finance to keep 8.01b

RECREATION AND PARK COMMISSION:
Composition 11.02
Members mode of appointment 11.02
Members, terms 11.02
Powers and duties 11.02

Property transferred to 1.07
Subject to personnel system 11.02
Vacancies 11.02

RECREATIONAL FACILITIES:
Recreation and Park Commission to run 11.02
Transferred to Recreational and Park Commission 1.07

REMOVALS:
Council members, failure to state interest, cause for 2.10
Chief of Police, power of 6.02
Director of Finance, power of  8.01j
Fire Chief, power of 7.02
Generally 2.13
Mayor-President, power of 4.03
Members of Planning Commission, causes 10.01
Parish Treasurer, power of 8.02
Planning Commission, power of 10.02
Unclassified personnel 4.03
Violation of finance provisions cause for 8.20

REQUISITIONS:
Purchases made pursuant to 4.10
Time of 4.08b

RESOLUTIONS, See ordinances, this index

REVOLVING FUNDS:
Division of Department of Public Works 5.03
Stores 4.10

ROAD DISTRICTS, Old ones continued 1.04

ROAD EQUIPMENT, Transferred to parish 1.07

RURAL AREA:
Defined 1.08c
Services supplied by special districts 1.08c
When city may supply services 1.08c

SALES:
Competitive bidding required 4.09
Purchasing Agent to make 4.09

SCHOOL BOARD:
See also East Baton Rouge, Parish of, this index
Consulted on Capital Budget 10.04
Powers unaffected 11.07
Severability 11.10

SEWERS:
Additional districts 1.04
Industrial area 1.08b, 1.10
Old districts continued 1.04
Rural area 1.08c
Urban area  1.08a, 5.02e

SHERIFF, Taxes collected by 8.05

SIDEWALKS, Parish to maintain 3.01b

SPECIAL DISTRICTS:
See also, Districts, Special, this index
Budgets for 8.08
Creation of 1.04
Fiscal year for 8.06
Old ones continued 1.04
Powers 1.04
Services to rural area supplied by 1.08c

SPECIAL ELECTIONS:
Amendment of Plan of Government 11.09
Vacancy in councils 2.06
Vacancy in office of Mayor-President 4.06

SPECIAL MEETINGS 2.11

STREETS:
City to light 3.01b
Division of Engineering to supervise lighting of  5.02a
Lighting
Industrial area 1.08b, 1.10
Rural area 1.08c
Urban area 1.08a
Maintenance division for 5.02b
Parish to maintain 3.01b
Signs erected by division of street maintenance 5.02b

STORES REVOLVING FUND, Council authorized to establish 4.10

SUPPLIES:
Purchasing Agent to buy 4.07
Requisition and specification for 4.08

SURETY BONDS:
Certain officials to post 8.04
Purchasing Agent to buy 4.07

TAXES:
Baker 1.11
Collection of 8.05
Elections 8.24
Levy to pay prior bonded indebtedness of Baton Rouge 1.06
Power to levy 3.04
Rates limited 1.11
Zachary 1.11

TERM LIMITS:
Metropolitan Council Members 2.02
Boards and Commissions 2.18
Mayor-President 4.01

TIME:
Action on zoning ordinance 10.05
Actuarial study 9.15
BUDGET

Action on capital 8.11
Action on current expense 8.15
Submission of 8.08
Council meetings 2.07, 2.11
HEARINGS
Additions to urban area 1.09
Classification plan 9.06
Generally 2.12
Removal cases 2.13, 4.03, 9.05
Making requisitions 4.08b
Pay plans 9.07
Preparation of financial report 8.01i
SPECIAL ELECTIONS

Amendment of Plan of Government 11.09
Council 2.06
Mayor-President 4.06
Submission of appropriation statements 8.01h

TOWNS:
Extension of boundaries 1.05
Government of 1.05
New ones not to be created 1.05
Part of rural area 1.05

TRAFFIC:
City to regulate 3.01b
Signals erected by division of street maintenance 5.02b
Studies made by Division of Engineering 5.02a

UNCLASSIFIED SERVICE, See Personnel, this index

URBAN AREA:
Additions to 1.09
Boundaries 1.08a
City to supply certain services to 1.08a
Fire Department for 7.01
Garbage collection in 5.02f
Police for 6.01
Safety inspections 5.02g
Sewer maintenance in 5.02e
Zoning regulations 5.02g

VACANCIES:
Board of control for public libraries 11.03
Mayor-President 4.06
Metropolitan Council 2.06
Personnel system 9.03e
Personnel system filled by promotion 9.08
Planning Commission 10.02
Recreation and Park Commission 11.02

VETERANS, Preference in personnel matters 9.12

VETO 2.15

VOTE, See Ordinance, this index

VILLAGES, See Towns, this index

WARD CONSTABLES, See Baton Rouge, City of, this index

Also, East Baton Rouge, Parish of, this index

WORK PROGRAMS, Submission 8.16

ZACHARY:
Part of rural area 1.05
Tax limit 1.11

ZONING COMMISSION, See Planning Commission, this index.

NOTE:

In view of the provisions of Section 1:03 of the Plan of Government and Section 3.02 of the Plan of Government, Act 169 of 1898, City Charter, should be reviewed in cases wherein there exists a potential for conflict between the provisions of this Plan of Government.