Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 18, § 1922.2. Approval of reapportionment plan by local election officials

A. Prior to the adoption of any local redistricting or reapportionment plan, a local governing body shall submit the proposed plan to the parish registrar of voters and clerk of court for review. If the local governing body utilizes a demographer to produce the proposed plan, the demographer shall be available to the registrar of voters and clerk of court to conduct their review. If the local governing body utilizes a geographic information system to develop its redistricting plan, it shall submit the proposed plan to the registrar of voters and clerk of court electronically in a geospacial shape file or an ASCII, comma delimited block equivalency import file which indicates the census block assignments in accordance with its redistricting plan.