La. Stat. tit. 33 § 144
Current with changes from the 2024 legislative session effective on or before 7/1/2024, from Acts 1-3, 6-671
On a day and hour fixed by the police juries before the holding of the election, these bodies shall in public session, within three days after the holding of the election, open the ballot boxes, examine and count the ballots, canvass the returns and declare the result of the election, which result shall be promulgated by publication in one issue of the official journal of each parish.
La. R.S. § 33:144