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Louisiana Judges' Retirement Act, Ballot Measure 15 (October 2003)
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The Louisiana Judges' Retirement Act, Ballot Measure 15 was on the ballot in Louisiana on October 4, 2003, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. This measure proposed that a judge who reached mandatory retirement age while in office could complete his term.[1][2][3]
Election results
| Louisiana Measure 15 (October 2003) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 572,690 | 53.30% | ||
| No | 501,829 | 46.70% | ||
Election results via: Louisiana Secretary of State
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| To permit a judge who attains the mandatory retirement age of seventy years while serving a term of office to complete that term of office. (Effective January 1, 2004)(Amends Article V, Section 23(B))[4][5] |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "Official Election Results," October 4, 2003
- ↑ Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, "Voting on Louisiana Proposed Constitutional Amendments 1978-2015," accessed November 3, 2015
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "2003 Constitutional Amendments," accessed November 9, 2015
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "2003 Constitutional Amendments," accessed November 9, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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