Louisiana Code § RS 13:502

Alternate sittings in different parishes; order fixing dates
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A. In districts composed of more than one parish the judge shall sit alternately in each parish and the session from one parish to the other, shall be continuous. No session in any parish of a district shall be fixed for less than one week or more than three weeks, as the public business may require. The district judge shall fix a date for the holding of the sessions in each parish by an order of court which shall be entered in the minutes of the court and published at least three times in the official journal of each parish. After the date is fixed, no change shall be made in the order within less than one year thereafter. B. Sessions of the Twenty-Third Judicial District Court held in Ascension Parish may be held in Gonzales as well as in Donaldsonville.

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