Louisiana Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Administrative divisions=== Louisiana is divided into 64 [[Parish (administrative division)|parishes]] (the equivalent of [[County (United States)|counties]] in most other states).<ref name="nativeamericans">{{Handbook of Texas|id=bzi04|name=Native Americans}}</ref> *[[List of parishes in Louisiana]] *[[Louisiana census statistical areas]] Most parishes have an elected government known as the Police Jury,<ref>{{cite web|title=What is the Police Jury? – Acadia Parish Police Jury|url=http://www.appj.org/what-is-the-police-jury/|access-date=2021-08-10|language=en-US|archive-date=August 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210810175757/http://www.appj.org/what-is-the-police-jury/|url-status=live}}</ref> dating from the colonial days. It is the legislative and executive government of the parish, and is elected by the voters. Its members are called Jurors, and together they elect a president as their chairman. A more limited number of parishes operate under [[home rule]] charters, electing various forms of government. This include mayor–council, council–manager (in which the council hires a professional operating manager for the parish), and others. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page