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- Lawrason_Act abstract "The Lawrason Act is an 1898 measure of the Louisiana State Legislature which permits municipalities in the state to incorporate into towns or cities without specific clearance from the legislature.It is named for the attorney Samuel McCutcheon Lawrason, who was a state senator from St. Francisville, the seat of West Feliciana Parish for two nonconsecutive terms, 1896-1900 and 1920-1924.The Lawrason Act was used, for instance, on April 4, 1951, in Newellton in Tensas Parish to upgrade the community from a village to a town. In 1912, the Lawrason Act established a city commission government for Alexandria. The mayor under that system served as the Commissioner of Public Health and Safety (Police, Fire, Sanitation). There were separate Commissioners of Streets and Parks and Finance and Utilities, all elected citywide. The last to hold those positions, which ended in 1977, were Mayor John K. Snyder, Malcolm Hebert, and Arnold Jack Rosenthal, respectively. The commission form ended with a new mayor-council charter in 1977.".
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- Lawrason_Act wikiPageRevisionID "611966270".
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageWikiLink Alexandria,_Louisiana.
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageWikiLink Arnold_Jack_Rosenthal.
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageWikiLink Attorneys_in_the_United_States.
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageWikiLink Category:1898_in_Louisiana.
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageWikiLink Category:1898_in_law.
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageWikiLink Category:Louisiana_law.
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageWikiLink City_commission_government.
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageWikiLink John_K._Snyder.
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageWikiLink Louisiana_State_Legislature.
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageWikiLink Malcolm_Hebert.
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageWikiLink Mayor–council_government.
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageWikiLink Newellton,_Louisiana.
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageWikiLink Samuel_Lawrason.
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageWikiLink St._Francisville,_Louisiana.
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageWikiLink Tensas_Parish,_Louisiana.
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageWikiLink West_Feliciana_Parish,_Louisiana.
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageWikiLinkText "Lawrason Act".
- Lawrason_Act wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Lawrason_Act subject Category:1898_in_Louisiana.
- Lawrason_Act subject Category:1898_in_law.
- Lawrason_Act subject Category:Louisiana_law.
- Lawrason_Act hypernym Measure.
- Lawrason_Act type Software.
- Lawrason_Act comment "The Lawrason Act is an 1898 measure of the Louisiana State Legislature which permits municipalities in the state to incorporate into towns or cities without specific clearance from the legislature.It is named for the attorney Samuel McCutcheon Lawrason, who was a state senator from St.".
- Lawrason_Act label "Lawrason Act".
- Lawrason_Act sameAs Q6503737.
- Lawrason_Act sameAs m.0g5902y.
- Lawrason_Act sameAs Q6503737.
- Lawrason_Act wasDerivedFrom Lawrason_Act?oldid=611966270.
- Lawrason_Act isPrimaryTopicOf Lawrason_Act.