La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1900 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1900
Traffic violations bureau
Status: in_force

A. Except in the city of New Orleans, in any municipality in which a city court is operating which does not have a traffic violations bureau, the mayor or chief executive hereinafter referred to as "mayor", may establish, under his supervision, a traffic violations bureau and adopt the necessary rules and regulations for its operation and administration. The mayor of any municipality within which a traffic violations bureau created pursuant to Section 3 of Act No. 32 of the 1960 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature is operating may assume the responsibility of said traffic violations bureau. Any traffic violations bureau created pursuant to Section 3 of Act No. 32 of the 1960 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature and existing on the effective date of this Section whose operations are not assumed by the mayor of that municipality may continue to operate under the supervision of the judge or judges of the city court under its present organization, functions and manner and sources of financing until such time as the operation of said traffic violations bureau is assumed by the mayor of that municipality.

B. The judge or mayor, as the case may be, having supervision over the traffic violations bureau is empowered to appoint one or more clerks who shall be charged with the administration of the bureau, and whose compensation shall be paid by the municipality, or by the municipality and parish, in such proportions as their respective governing authorities may designate, except that the compensation of each of the clerks shall not be less than two hundred dollars per month.

C. Any defendant may plead guilty and pay to the traffic violations bureau the fine for his traffic violation, which the bureau shall receive, in accordance with a schedule of fines which shall be established by the judge or judges of the city court in accordance with law. The schedule shall show in accordance with law the amount of fine for each offense listed therein. The bureau shall receive the plea of guilty for the court. Together with such fines received, the bureau shall collect costs which shall be fixed by the court in accordance with the law. The bureau shall collect forfeitures declared by the court in connection with traffic violations. All costs, fines and forfeitures shall be disposed of as provided by law.

D. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any city court in the parishes of Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Caddo, Calcasieu, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Franklin, Grant, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Lafourche, Lincoln, Livingston, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, Red River, St. James, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Vermilion, Vernon, Washington, Webster, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana, and Winn.

E. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection D of this Section, the judge of the City Court of Plaquemine may establish a traffic violations bureau, under the supervision of the marshal of the court, as provided in this Section.

Added by Acts 1960, No. 32, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 1961. Amended by Acts 1977, No. 491, §1; Acts 1983, No. 487, §1; Acts 1988, No. 293, §1; Acts 1989, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 4, §1; Acts 2022, No. 295, §1, eff. June 10, 2022.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5802.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5802.2
Minimum salary for constables and justices of the peace in St. Landry Parish
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, the police jury of the parish of St. Landry shall pay the constables and justices of the peace thereof a salary of not less than one hundred dollars per month.

Added by Acts 1974, No. 703, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:1702.2 pursuant to Acts 2011, No. 248, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5602 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5602
City and state not liable for costs of criminal sheriff
Status: in_force

Neither the state nor the city of New Orleans shall be liable for or make any appropriation to pay any costs of the criminal sheriff in any criminal case, except as provided in R.S. 15:566.

Amended by Acts 1974, No. 550, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:1522 pursuant to Acts 2011, No. 248, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1441 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1441
Declaration of purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of this Chapter is to provide for uniform subject matter jurisdiction and procedure for parish courts. This Chapter is intended to implement the constitutional requirement that such courts shall have parishwide territorial jurisdiction and subject matter jurisdiction which shall be uniform throughout the state, all as provided by Article V, Section 15(A) of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 328, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1980.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:783 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 783
Expenses of clerk's office
Status: in_force

A. The clerk shall employ all necessary deputies and assistants, fix and pay their salaries, and defray all expenses out of the clerk's salary fund.

B. The police jury of the parish of Plaquemines may pay the clerk of court and ex-officio recorder for the parish of Plaquemines such additional expenses as it may deem necessary.

C. The clerk shall not be required to pay the court reporter out of the clerk's salary fund or the amounts allowed to the clerk out of the clerk's salary fund for expenses. If he is not paid by the clerk, unless his compensation is otherwise fixed by law, the court reporter may collect the fees allowed by law for his services.

D.(1)(a)(i) Each of the clerks of the district courts is hereby authorized to purchase, out of any surplus in his salary fund, an automobile for the use of his office, after having first obtained the consent of the governing authority of the parish.

(ii) However, the consent of the governing authority shall not be necessary as to any clerk of court who prior to July 29, 1970, has purchased an automobile under authority of any previously enacted law.

(iii) The clerks of the district courts in East Feliciana Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Livingston Parish, and St. Landry Parish shall be exempt from obtaining consent from the governing authority to purchase an automobile for office use.

(b) Each of the clerks of court is hereby authorized to purchase insurance for the automobile with any insurance company authorized to do business under the laws of this state and to pay the premiums on the insurance out of his salary fund.

(2) In addition to the automobile authorized to be purchased in the above Paragraph, the clerk of court of Lafayette Parish may purchase, out of any surplus in his salary fund, an additional automobile for the use of his office. Such automobile shall also be purchased in accordance with the provisions set forth in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection.

(3) In addition to the automobile authorized to be purchased in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, the clerk of court of Caddo Parish may purchase, out of his salary fund, an additional automobile for the use of his office. Such automobile and insurance therefor shall also be purchased in accordance with the provisions set forth in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection.

(4) In addition to the automobile authorized to be purchased in Paragraph (1), the clerk of court of Calcasieu Parish may purchase, out of any surplus in his salary fund, in an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars, an additional automobile for the use of his office. Such automobile and insurance therefor shall also be purchased in accordance with the provisions set forth in Paragraph (1).

(5) Repealed by Acts 2020, No. 26, §2.

(6) The clerk of court for East Baton Rouge Parish is hereby authorized to purchase or lease the automobile authorized by Paragraph (1) of this Subsection and, in addition, is authorized to purchase or lease one additional automobile for the transportation of employees, documents, equipment, or other items related to the office of the clerk or for use for any purpose related to the operation of the office of the clerk of court. The purchase price or lease payments of an automobile authorized in this Paragraph, including the automobile insurance premiums on that automobile, shall be payable out of the clerk's salary fund. The automobile insurance shall be obtained from an insurance company authorized by law to do business in this state.

(7) The clerk of each district court may receive an automobile expense allowance equal to fifteen percent of their annual salary provided the clerk of court maintains three hundred thousand dollars of automobile insurance per accident for bodily injury and one hundred thousand dollars of automobile insurance per accident for property damage. The expense allowance shall come from surplus funds in each of the offices of the clerks of court and at no additional expense to the state or local governing authority.

E. Each of the clerks of the district courts is authorized to purchase, out of any surplus in his salary fund, uniforms for his deputies and assistants.

F.(1) Each of the clerks of the district courts is authorized to contract separately or through the insurance committee that administers the clerk's insurance fund of the Louisiana Clerks of Court Association to obtain from any insurance company authorized to do business in this state, group life and accidental death and dismemberment, group health, accident, dental, hospital, surgical, or other medical expense and group disability insurance. This insurance may cover the clerk of court, the clerk's employees and retirees, dependents of the clerk, and the dependents of the clerk's employees and retirees.

(2) The clerk may pay from the clerk's salary and expense fund the cost of insurance authorized to be contracted for by this Subsection for the clerk, his employees, and dependents of the clerk and the clerk's employees. No reduction of the insured's contribution shall be made on insurance contracts presently in effect. All costs for group insurance paid out of the clerk's salary and expense fund shall be included in each clerk's budget. The clerk, clerk's employee, or retiree shall pay any portion of the insurance cost that is not paid from the clerk's salary and expense fund.

(3) The clerk or any clerk's employee who was a covered employee, who elects to continue coverage, and who retires under the clerks of court retirement program may elect to continue insurance coverage obtained under this Subsection and the costs may be paid in the same manner as if he were still employed provided that the clerk or clerk's employee was a clerk or clerk's employee and a member of the Louisiana Clerks' of Court Retirement and Relief Fund for at least twelve years prior to retirement and begins receiving retirement benefits immediately upon retirement from active employment.

(4) The clerk may pay any fee for the cost of administering the clerk's insurance fund that is charged participating members. This fee may be paid from the clerk's salary and expense fund.

(5) Any insurance cost to be paid by the clerk or the clerk's employee may be deducted directly from their salaries if so authorized. The clerk shall remit these contributions to the clerk's insurance fund when the insurance contracts are administered by that fund, or directly to any insurance company with which the clerk has contracted separately.

(6) In the parishes of Beauregard, East Carroll, Jefferson Davis, Rapides, Richland, and Vernon, the clerk of court shall pay, from the clerk's salary fund, one hundred percent of the premium costs of the group life and accidental death and dismemberment, group health, accident, dental, hospital, surgical, or other medical expense for any employee who was a covered employee, who elects to continue coverage, and who retires from the Beauregard Parish clerk of court's office, the East Carroll Parish clerk of court's office, the Jefferson Davis Parish clerk of court's office, the Rapides Parish clerk of court's office, the Richland Parish clerk of court's office, or the Vernon Parish clerk of court's office who begins receiving monthly benefits from the Louisiana Clerks' of Court Retirement and Relief Fund immediately upon retirement from active employment and has at least twenty years of full-time service with the clerk of court's office in Beauregard Parish, East Carroll Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Rapides Parish, Richland Parish, or Vernon Parish. The provisions of this Paragraph shall not apply to any other insurance, such as supplemental insurance, that an employee may elect to purchase.

(7) In the parishes of Avoyelles, Bossier, Caddo, Calcasieu, Caldwell, Cameron, Franklin, Grant, Iberia, Lafayette, LaSalle, Orleans, Ouachita, Pointe Coupee, St. Martin, St. Mary, Terrebonne, Webster, West Feliciana, and Winn, the clerk of court shall pay, from the clerk's salary fund, one hundred percent of the premium costs of the group life and accidental death and dismemberment, group health, accident, dental, hospital, surgical, or other medical expense insurance for any employee who was a covered employee, who elects to continue coverage, and who retires from the Avoyelles Parish clerk of court's office, the Bossier Parish clerk of court's office, the Caddo Parish clerk of court's office, the Calcasieu Parish clerk of court's office, the Caldwell Parish clerk of court's office, the Cameron Parish clerk of court's office, the Franklin Parish clerk of court's office, the Grant Parish clerk of court's office, the Iberia Parish clerk of court's office, the Lafayette Parish clerk of court's office, the LaSalle Parish clerk of court's office, the Orleans Parish Civil District Court clerk of court's office, the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court clerk of court's office, the Ouachita Parish clerk of court's office, the Pointe Coupee Parish clerk of court's office, the St. Martin Parish clerk of court's office, the St. Mary Parish clerk of court's office, the Terrebonne Parish clerk of court's office, the Webster Parish clerk of court's office, the West Feliciana Parish clerk of court's office, or the Winn Parish clerk of court's office who begins receiving monthly benefits from the Louisiana Clerks' of Court Retirement and Relief Fund immediately upon retirement from active employment, who has at least twenty years of full-time service with the clerk of court's office in Avoyelles Parish, Bossier Parish, Caddo Parish, Calcasieu Parish, Caldwell Parish, Cameron Parish, Franklin Parish, Grant Parish, Iberia Parish, Lafayette Parish, LaSalle Parish, Ouachita Parish, Pointe Coupee Parish, St. Martin Parish, St. Mary Parish, Terrebonne Parish, Webster Parish, West Feliciana Parish, or Winn Parish, Orleans Parish Civil District Court, or Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, and who is at least fifty-five years of age. The provisions of this Paragraph shall not apply to any other insurance, such as supplemental insurance, that an employee may elect to purchase.

(8) The clerk of court of East Baton Rouge Parish shall pay from the clerk's salary fund one hundred percent of the premium costs of the group life and accidental death and dismemberment, group health, accident, dental, hospital, surgical, or other medical expense insurance for any clerk or employee who was a covered employee, who elects to continue coverage, and who retires from the East Baton Rouge Parish clerk of court's office who begins receiving monthly benefits from the Louisiana Clerks' of Court Retirement and Relief Fund immediately upon retirement from active employment, who has at least twelve years of full-time service with the clerk of court's office in East Baton Rouge Parish, and who is at least fifty-five years of age. The provisions of this Paragraph shall not apply to any other insurance, such as supplemental insurance, that any clerk or any employee may elect to purchase.

(9) The clerk of court of St. James Parish, provided sufficient amounts are available, shall pay from the clerk's salary fund one hundred percent of the premium costs of the group life and accidental death and dismemberment, group health, accident, dental, hospital, surgical, or other medical expense insurance for any clerk or employee who was a covered employee, who elects to continue coverage, and who retires from the St. James Parish clerk of court's office who begins receiving monthly benefits from the Louisiana Clerks' of Court Retirement and Relief Fund immediately upon retirement from active employment, who has at least twenty years of full-time service with the clerk of court's office in St. James Parish, and who is at least fifty-five years of age. The provisions of this Paragraph shall not apply to any other insurance, such as supplemental insurance, that an employee may elect to purchase.

(10) The clerk of court of Acadia Parish shall pay from the clerk's salary fund one hundred percent of the premium costs of the group life and accidental death and dismemberment, group health, accident, dental, hospital, surgical, or other medical expense insurance for any clerk or employee who was a covered employee, who elects to continue coverage, and who retires from the Acadia Parish clerk of court's office who begins receiving monthly benefits from the Louisiana Clerks' of Court Retirement and Relief Fund immediately upon retirement from active employment, who has at least twenty years of full-time service with the clerk of court's office in Acadia Parish, and is at least fifty-five years of age. The provisions of this Paragraph shall not apply to any other insurance, such as supplemental insurance, that an employee may elect to purchase.

(11) The clerk of court of Ascension Parish shall pay from the clerk's salary fund one hundred percent of the premium costs of the group life and accidental death and dismemberment, group health, accident, dental, hospital, surgical, or other medical expense insurance for any clerk or employee who was a covered employee, who elects to continue coverage, and who retires from the Ascension Parish Clerk of Court's office and begins receiving monthly benefits from the Louisiana Clerks' of Court Retirement and Relief Fund immediately upon retirement from active employment with at least twenty years of full-time service with the clerk of court's office in Ascension Parish, and who is at least fifty-five years of age. The provisions of this Paragraph shall not apply to any other insurance, such as supplemental insurance, that an employee may elect to purchase.

(12) The clerk of court of Evangeline Parish shall pay from the clerk's salary fund one hundred percent of the premium costs of the group life and accidental death and dismemberment, group health, accident, dental, hospital, surgical, or other medical expense insurance for any clerk or employee who was a covered employee, who elects to continue coverage, and who retires from the office of the Evangeline Parish Clerk of Court and begins receiving monthly benefits from the Louisiana Clerks' of Court Retirement and Relief Fund immediately upon retirement from active employment with at least twenty years of full-time service with the office of the Evangeline Parish Clerk of Court, and who is at least fifty-five years of age. The provisions of this Paragraph shall not apply to any other insurance, such as supplemental insurance, that an employee may elect to purchase.

Acts 1950, No. 454, §1; Acts 1956, No. 467, §1; Acts 1968, No. 121, §1; Acts 1969, No. 166, §1; Acts 1970, No. 152, §1; Acts 1972, No. 323, §1; Acts 1976, No. 53, §1; Acts 1990, No. 64, §1; Acts 1991, No. 561, §1; Acts 1993, No. 615, §1; Acts 1994, 3 rd Ex. Sess., No. 43, §1, eff. July 1, 1994; Acts 1997, No. 519, §1, eff. July 3, 1997; Acts 2000, 1 st Ex. Sess., No. 101, §1, eff. April 17, 2000; Acts 2006, No. 670, §1; Acts 2007, No. 423, §1; Acts 2009, No. 471, §1, eff. July 9, 2009; Acts 2010, No. 170, §1; Acts 2010, No. 183, §1; Acts 2010, No. 422, §1; Acts 2011, No. 176, §1, eff. June 24, 2011; Acts 2012, No. 376, §1; Acts 2012, No. 467, §1; Acts 2013, No. 232, §1; Acts 2013, No. 344, §1; Acts 2013, No. 373, §1; Acts 2014, No. 537, §1; Acts 2014, No. 593, §1; Acts 2015, No. 178, §1; Acts 2015, No. 179, §1; Acts 2017, No. 31, §1; Acts 2018, No. 117, §1; Acts 2018, No. 605, §1; Acts 2020, No. 26, §§1, 2; Acts 2021, No. 106, §1, eff. June 4, 2021; Acts 2022, No. 94, §1; Acts 2022, No. 290, §1; Acts 2023, No. 49, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5553 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5553
Sheriff's power to designate deputy as collector
Status: in_force

A sheriff may designate any deputy appointed by him to be in charge of all tax collections, and may require of the deputy the furnishing of a surety bond for the faithful performance of the duties imposed upon him. The bond shall be in the sum of one thousand dollars over and above the full amount of the state and parish taxes levied, according to the last filed assessment roll of such parish but shall not exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars. The bond shall be conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of the deputy sheriff in that capacity and for the just and full accounting and payment into the state and parish treasuries of all sums of money that come into his possession as deputy tax collector. The bond shall be made payable to the sheriff and shall be annually renewed before June 30th. The old bond shall become cancelled by the acceptance of a new bond by the sheriff. No bond shall be cancelled unless a new bond has been substituted as provided above, or satisfactory evidence has been submitted to the sheriff that the deputy has fully accounted for all funds collected by him as deputy tax collector.

Redesignated from R.S. 33:1447 pursuant to Acts 2011, No. 248, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:127 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 127
Oaths and acknowledgments
Status: in_force

Oaths and acknowledgments in all cases may be taken or made by or before the clerk of the Supreme Court and his deputies.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2563.15 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2563.15
Office space
Status: in_force

Each governing authority of the municipalities of Donaldsonville, Gonzales and Sorrento shall provide suitable space within each municipality, respectively, for the operation of the court.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 307, §1, eff. Jan. 3, 1977.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2506 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2506
Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 845, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2017.
Status: repealed

Added by Acts 1961, 2nd Ex.Sess., No. 6, §1; Acts 2014, No. 845, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2017.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:3472 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 3472
Service on foreign corporation through secretary of state
Status: in_force

In any case where service on a foreign corporation may be made through the secretary of state, under any law heretofore or hereafter enacted, such service may be made in person on the secretary of state anywhere in the state. Should the secretary of state be absent from his office, service may be made on the assistant secretary of state, or on some other individual in the office of the secretary of state designated by the latter to receive service of process in his absence, and such service has the same effect as if made upon the secretary of state personally.

Amended by Acts 1960, No. 32, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:3712 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 3712
Copies as prima facie proof; judicial notice of municipal and parochial ordinances
Status: in_force

A.(1) Certified copies of books, records, papers, or other documents of the state of Louisiana and its departments, boards, and agencies, and of its political subdivisions and their departments, boards, and agencies, and which are made self-authenticating under Chapter 9 of the Louisiana Code of Evidence, shall be prima facie proof of the existence and contents of the originals and of any act, transactions, or occurrence or event as a memorandum of which said books, records, papers, or documents were kept or made.

(2) Audio or video recordings or electronic images of the proceedings of either house of the Louisiana Legislature or one of its committees which are made self-authenticating under Chapter 9 of the Louisiana Code of Evidence shall be prima facie proof of the existence and contents of the respective proceeding contained on the recording or image.

B. All courts of record in the state shall take judicial cognizance of the municipal ordinances and parochial ordinances which may be enacted by governing authority of any town, city, municipality, or parish within their respective jurisdictions whenever certified copies of such ordinances have been filed with the clerk of said court. The clerk shall keep a record of such ordinances filed with him. It shall not be necessary to file more than one copy of any ordinance with the clerk in order that judicial cognizance be taken thereof. Such certified copies may be filed with the various clerks of court either by the proper custodian of the ordinances of respective town, city, municipality or parish, or any lawful officer of the court.

Amended by Acts 1958, No. 316, §1; Acts 1988, No. 515, §6, eff. Jan. 1, 1989; Acts 2006, No. 826, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2485.8 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2485.8
Temporary marshal; vacancies
Status: in_force

A. When the marshal is absent or unable to act for any cause, the judge may appoint any other person who is a resident elector of the territorial jurisdiction of the court to serve as a temporary marshal.

B. In case of vacancy in the office of marshal because of death, resignation, or otherwise, the judge may fill the vacancy by appointment if the unexpired term is less than one year, and in such case he shall also fix the amount of the bond.

C. If the unexpired term is for a longer period than one year, a special election to fill the vacancy shall be ordered by the proper legal authority under the general election laws.

Acts 1962, No. 122, §8.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1302 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1302
Criers
Status: in_force

The judge of each division of the civil district court shall appoint a crier for his division who shall be commissioned by the civil sheriff as a deputy sheriff, and who shall perform such duties as may be provided by law and the rules of the court. When directed by the court, the crier shall administer the oath required by law of all witnesses and jurors. Each crier shall receive a compensation as the court en banc may fix which in any event shall not be less than three hundred dollars per month, payable out of the judicial expense fund of the parish of Orleans on the warrant of the judge of the division in which the crier serves. In addition to the compensation payable to each crier from any source whatsoever, each crier shall receive additional compensation of one hundred dollars per month payable by the city of New Orleans, plus additional compensation of two hundred dollars per month payable by the city of New Orleans when and if funds are made available therefor.

Amended by Acts 1960, No. 588, §1; Acts 1972, No. 608, §1; Acts 1977, No. 44, §2; Acts 2006, No. 621, §19(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2008, No. 675, §1, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2008, No. 873, §1, eff. July 9, 2008; Acts 2011, No. 340, §2, eff. June 29, 2011; Acts 2012, No. 474, §4(B)(2).
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:970 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 970
Court reporter for Twenty-sixth Judicial District for Webster Parish
Status: in_force

A. As used herein, "judge" means the district judge of the twenty-sixth judicial district who resides in Webster Parish. In the event that more than one judge of the twenty-sixth judicial district resides in Webster Parish, the word "judge" shall mean the most senior of the judges of the twenty-sixth judicial district residing in Webster Parish.

B. The judge may appoint a court reporter for Webster Parish, which reporter shall hold office for the current term of the judge making the appointment, or until resignation or until the office is declared vacant by the judge.

C. The court reporter shall be a person of good moral character whose knowledge of court procedure and general qualifications of competency have been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the judge making the appointment.

D. The court reporter shall furnish a bond in the amount of one thousand dollars to protect litigants against any acts of incompetency on the part of the reporter. The written appointment, the oath of office, and the bond shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the district court for Webster Parish.

E. Subject to the approval of the judge and the police jury, the court reporter may appoint as many deputy reporters as necessary to assist him with the work of his office consistent with the work to be done, and the reporter shall be responsible for the work of the deputies under his oath of office and bond.

F. The duties of the court reporter shall be to report in shorthand, tape recording, stenotype, or in any recognized manner, and transcribe into typing or printing at the request of any of the parties to any proceeding, or at the request of the judge, all the testimony taken in all appealable civil cases tried in the district, and to furnish, for the purpose of appeal the necessary copies of the testimony required by the law. In criminal cases the court reporters shall take down the proceedings as required by law and by the court and shall transcribe the proceedings as directed by the court and shall furnish the necessary copies needed for the purpose of appellate review.

G. The court reporter shall be subject to the orders of the judge presiding in the Webster Parish division of the Twenty-Sixth Judicial District and shall attend civil and criminal sessions of the district court as the presiding judge may direct from time to time.

H. The reporter and any deputy reporters shall have the power to administer oaths in all matters pertaining to depositions taken outside of court to be used in the Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court or in other courts. Certificates issued by the said reporter and filed by him within the scope of his authority shall be received in the courts of this state as are the certificates of the notaries public.

I. As compensation, the court reporter and deputy reporters shall be paid by the Webster Parish Police Jury from the fund hereafter created, such annual compensation, payable monthly, as may be fixed by the judge with the approval of the Webster Parish Police Jury.

J. The Webster Parish Police Jury shall furnish all supplies and equipment, such as typewriter, shorthand pads, adding machines, paper, carbon paper, stenograph machines, and all other supplies and equipment necessary for the taking and transcribing of said testimony. In addition, the court reporter shall be reimbursed by the Webster Parish Police Jury for all traveling expenses and other expenses incurred in the discharge of his or her duties. The Webster Parish Police Jury shall provide the court reporter with an office or suitable place of accommodation equipped with the necessary office furniture.

NOTE: The fee provided for in Subsection K is effective on the date of Judicial Council Approval. See Acts 2020, No. 232.

K.(1) The clerk of court of the Twenty-sixth Judicial District Court for the parish of Webster shall collect from every person filing any type of civil suit or proceeding, who is not otherwise exempted by law from the payment of court costs or subject to the provisions of Code of Civil Procedure Article 5181 et seq., a fee to be determined by the judges of the district, sitting en banc, which shall not exceed fifteen dollars. The fee shall be maintained by him in a special account designated as the clerk of court's reporter's fund.

(2) No deposit shall be required in forma pauperis cases, but the clerk of court may test by rule the plaintiff's right to the benefits of Code of Civil Procedure Articles 5181 through 5188 and of R.S. 13:4529.

(3) The clerk of the district court shall deduct ten percent of all sums collected hereunder as compensation for his services at the end of each month and remit the remainder thereof to the Webster Parish Police Jury for deposit into the court reporter's fund with full accounting of all receipts for the period covered by such remittance.

NOTE: The fee provided for in Subsection L is effective on the date of Judicial Council Approval. See Acts 2020, No. 232.

L. Additionally, in civil and criminal cases the Webster Parish Police Jury shall be paid two dollars and fifty cents per thirty-one-line legal size page and fifty cents per page for copies for all testimony transcribed by the court reporters. This charge shall be taxable as court costs and shall be advanced to the court reporter assigned to the case for delivery to the Webster Parish Police Jury for deposit in the clerk of court reporter's fund.

M. Monies in the criminal court fund, indigent defender's fund, or funds otherwise available for such purposes under the law, shall be paid into the clerk of court reporter's fund as directed by the court. The Webster Parish Police Jury shall deposit such additional funds in the clerk of court reporter's fund as are needed to pay the costs and charges herein provided.

Acts 1960, No. 376, §§1 to 14; Acts 1968, No. 227, §1; Acts 1971, No. 60, §1; Acts 1977, No. 144, §1, eff. June 29, 1977; Acts 1978, No. 286, §1, eff. July 5, 1978; Acts 1990, No. 361, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1991; Acts 2001, No. 969, §1; Acts 2020, No. 232, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:756.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 756.3
St. James Parish; branch office
Status: in_force

A. The clerk of court of the parish of St. James shall establish and maintain a branch office in the St. James Parish Courthouse Annex at Vacherie, Ward 6, parish of St. James, to be used to receive election returns, issue marriage licenses, and store microfilm. The branch office hereby established shall not be utilized for the filing of legal pleadings.

B. The governing authority of the parish of St. James shall make an office available without cost to the state for the establishment and maintenance of said branch office.

Acts 1985, No. 396, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:964 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 964
Court reporters for Fourteenth Judicial District
Status: in_force

A. There shall be appointed as many official court reporters for the fourteenth judicial district as there are district judges in the district, and the qualifications, mode of appointment, duties and compensation of the reporters shall be as provided in this Section.

B. Each judge shall appoint one court reporter, whose term of office shall continue for the current term of the judge making the appointment, or until the office is declared vacated by the judge making the appointment.

C. Each court reporter shall take an oath of office and furnish bond for the faithful performance of his duties. The bond shall be in the sum of one thousand dollars and shall be in favor of the judges for the purpose of protecting litigants against any acts of incompetency or neglect of duty by the court reporter. The bond shall be recorded and filed in the office of the clerk of the district court. Any party litigant may sue on the bond for any damages sustained through any wrongful act or neglect of duty by the court reporter in the performance of his duties.

D. The court reporters shall report in shorthand, stenotype, or in any recognized manner, and transcribe into longhand by typing or printing, all the testimony taken in all civil appealable cases, and to furnish for the purposes of appeal, the necessary carbon copies of the testimony required by law. They shall also record such criminal proceedings as may be required by law or as directed by the district judge.

E. In addition to the duties set out in R.S. 13:964(D), each court reporter shall serve as secretary to the district judge appointing him and shall receive no compensation therefor, other than that provided in R.S. 13:964(G).

F. The court reporters shall work concurrently under the direction and supervision of the judges appointing them, according to the needs and requirements in the district, in the interest of expediting the business before the court.

G. The court reporters shall receive a monthly salary of not less than three hundred dollars, to be fixed and determined by the judge making the appointment at the time of the appointment. The salaries shall be paid out of the general fund of the parish of Calcasieu. The police jury of the parish of Calcasieu shall budget the salary of the court reporters in its budget of annual expenses.

H. In all cases, a majority of the judges shall determine the amount of the fee which shall be paid to the court reporter for the transcription of each page of all testimony reported and transcribed and the amount of the fee per copy of each page of transcribed testimony. The provisions of this Subsection shall also apply to cases which are reported but not transcribed. Such fees shall be retained by the reporter as compensation, in addition to the salary provided for in Subsection G of this Section, and shall be taxed as costs of the suit in which the testimony is taken.

I. The police jury of the parish of Calcasieu shall furnish and provide the court reporters with an office or a suitable place or accommodation equipped with necessary office furniture and supplies necessary for the reporting and transcription of any notes of evidence taken by the court reporters.

J. The court reporter shall make out an itemized statement of the fees charged for reporting and transcribing the notes of evidence. He shall deliver the original of the statement to the clerk of the district court and a copy to the party litigant, or his attorney of record, who requested the evidence to be reported and transcribed. The party litigant, except one entitled to the benefits of Articles 5181 through 5188 of the Code of Civil Procedure, shall pay to the court reporter immediately the fee charged. The fee shall be paid by a litigant entitled to the benefits of Articles 5181 through 5188 of the Code of Civil Procedure only when the litigant recovers judgment for costs and realizes a sufficient amount therefrom to pay his fee.

Amended by Acts 1956, No. 22, §1; Acts 1962, No. 36, §1; Acts 1970, No. 240, §1; Acts 1974, No. 329, §1; Acts 1978, No. 14, §2, eff. March 1, 1979; Acts 1991, No. 510, §1; Acts 1993, No. 641, §1; Acts 2017, No. 158, §1; Acts 2024, No. 234, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:3732 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 3732
Statements by injured person regarding accident or injury; copies furnished injured person or personal representatives
Status: in_force

Every person who shall take a written, recorded, or transcribed statement from any injured person with respect to any accident or with respect to any injury to person or property shall furnish to the person making such statement a true and complete copy thereof; provided, that in no event nor under any circumstances shall any provision of this Section be held, deemed, or construed to require the furnishing of more than two copies of such statement. Any person having taken any written, recorded, or transcribed statement, or having possession of any written, recorded, or transcribed statement or a copy of such statement, by any injured person with respect to any accident or with respect to any injury to person or property shall, at the request of the person who made such statement or his personal representative, furnish the person who made such statement or his personal representative a true and complete copy thereof, within twenty days after written demand. No written, recorded, or transcribed statement by an injured person shall be admissible in evidence or otherwise used in any manner in any civil action relating to the subject matter thereof, if it shall be made to appear that thereafter a person having possession of such statement refused, upon request of the person who made the statement or his personal representatives, to furnish him a true and complete copy thereof.

Acts 1952, No. 104, §1; Acts 1997, No. 744, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:4355 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 4355
Certified copy of sheriff's act of sale proof of recitals in original; duplicate act when original lost; certified copy of duplicate
Status: in_force

A copy of the sheriff's act of sale or property sold at judicial sale, certified by the clerk of court, is full proof of all of the recitals of the original act.

When the original act of sale is lost or mislaid before it is registered in the conveyance office of the parish, and a person interested in having the sale registered submits an affidavit that the original act has been lost or mislaid, the sheriff who sold the property, or a successor in office, may execute and issue, nunc pro tunc, another act of sale which may be registered in the conveyance office with the same effect as the original act. A copy of this duplicate act certified by the clerk of court is full proof of all of the recitals of the original act.

Added by Acts 1960, No. 32, §6, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2487.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2487.2
Qualifications of judge and marshal
Status: in_force

The city judge must be licensed to practice law in the state of Louisiana for at least eight years previous to his election and a qualified resident elector of the territorial jurisdiction of the court for at least two years prior to his election. The city marshal must be a qualified resident elector of the territorial jurisdiction of the court for at least two years prior to his election.

Acts 1964, No. 102, §2; Acts 2008, No. 196, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2583.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2583.2
Deputies; oath; compensation; Union Parish
Status: in_force

A. Each duly elected constable of a justice of the peace court in Union Parish may appoint one deputy constable, if necessary, for whose acts the constable shall be responsible. Before entering upon his duties, each deputy shall take the oath required by the constitution and the laws of this state and meet the requirements of R.S. 40:2402 through 2406. A duplicate copy of the oath of office shall be filed with the office of the attorney general within seventy-two hours after being administered. Any deputy constable appointed pursuant to this Section shall not be entitled to any compensation from any local governing body or political subdivision, other than the constable's office, and shall not be entitled to any compensation from the state. Each constable may fix the compensation of his deputy. He shall pay from the fees generated by his office the compensation due the deputy, the premiums on bonds required by him of a deputy in charge of public funds, insurance premiums, if provided, and any and all other expenses of any nature whatsoever necessary for the performance of all duties required of the deputy. He shall issue monthly or twice per month, at his discretion, to the deputy warrants or checks for the amounts due him.

B. Each deputy constable authorized by this Section shall have the same qualifications and training as required by law for a constable of a justice of the peace court. The deputy constable need not be a resident of the ward from which the constable is elected, but he must be a resident of Union Parish.

C. The provisions of this Section shall have no effect on nor limit the authority of a justice of the peace to appoint a special deputy constable pursuant to R.S. 13:3477.

Acts 2002, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 63, §1; Acts 2014, No. 381, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2488.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2488.1
City Court of Franklin; officials and employees; provisions governing
Status: in_force

A.(1) Effective September 1, 1968 the offices of the justice of the peace and constable in Ward Three of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, and the Mayor's Court in the town of Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, are abolished and there is hereby established and created a court to be styled the City Court of the town of Franklin, Louisiana.

(2)(a) The territorial jurisdiction of the court shall extend throughout the town of Franklin, Louisiana and throughout the whole of Ward Three of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana.

(b) In addition to the area provided in Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph, the territorial jurisdiction of the court shall extend throughout the portions of Ward Ten of St. Mary Parish that are east of the Charenton Drainage and Navigation Canal and south of Bayou Teche. In such portions of Ward Ten that are outside of the town of Franklin, the court shall have jurisdiction concurrent with the justice of the peace in those cases in which the justice of the peace would have jurisdiction.

(3) The court shall be composed of a city judge, a marshal and a clerk of the court. The offices of city judge and marshal shall be filled initially by election by the qualified electors of Ward Three of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana at the general election for Representatives in Congress to be held in Louisiana on the first Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, 1968. The city judge and marshal then elected shall serve a term to commence on January 1, 1969 and they shall serve until their successors are elected at the congressional election of 1972, and successor judges and marshals shall be elected at the congressional election every six years thereafter. The court shall be domiciled in Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana.

B. Unless inconsistent herewith and except as otherwise specifically provided herein, the general provisions of Title 13, Chapter 7, Part I, Sub-Part A, Revised Statutes of Louisiana (R.S. 13:1871, et seq.), shall be applicable to and shall govern and regulate the City Court of the Town of Franklin, Louisiana, and its officers.

Added by Acts 1968, No. 16, §1, emerg. eff. July 4, 1968, at 10:05 A.M. Amended by Acts 1968, Ex.Sess., No. 29, §1; Acts 1970, No. 364, §2; Acts 2016, No. 112, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1371 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1371
Salary of clerk; payment
Status: in_force

The clerk of the criminal district court shall receive an annual salary as established in R.S. 13:782(A) based on the applicable population of the parish according to the latest United States census. This salary shall be paid by the city of New Orleans monthly beginning with Fiscal Year 1997-1998 and each fiscal year thereafter.

Amended by Acts 1952, No. 75, §1; Acts 1997, No. 470, §1; Acts 2006, No. 621, §19(B), eff. when the clerk of the 41 st JDC takes office; Acts 2012, No. 474, §4(B)(2).
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:587.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 587.1
Ninth Judicial District; judges
Status: in_force

The judges of the Ninth Judicial District Court, by rule adopted by a majority vote of the judges sitting en banc, may designate and assign to any division of the court any or all types of matters of which the court has jurisdiction.

Acts 1997, No. 127, §1, eff. June 13, 1997.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:49 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 49
Salary as recommended by the Judicial Compensation Commission
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, and subject to an annual appropriation for such purposes, the actual salary of the supreme court, courts of appeal, and district court judges shall be increased by four and one-half, four and six-tenths, and four and nine-tenths percent, respectively, each year on July 1, 2008, July 1, 2009, and on July 1, 2010, and further that the state-paid actual salary of city court and parish court judges shall be increased by four and nine-tenths percent each year on July 1, 2008, July 1, 2009, and on July 1, 2010, subject to an annual appropriation for such purposes.

Acts 2007, No. 422, §1, eff. July 1, 2007.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:3201 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 3201
Personal jurisdiction over nonresidents
Status: in_force

A. A court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident, who acts directly or by an agent, as to a cause of action arising from any one of the following activities performed by the nonresident:

(1) Transacting any business in this state.

(2) Contracting to supply services or things in this state.

(3) Causing injury or damage by an offense or quasi offense committed through an act or omission in this state.

(4) Causing injury or damage in this state by an offense or quasi offense committed through an act or omission outside of this state if he regularly does or solicits business, or engages in any other persistent course of conduct, or derives revenue from goods used or consumed or services rendered in this state.

(5) Having an interest in, using or possessing a real right on immovable property in this state.

(6) Non-support of a child, parent, or spouse or a former spouse domiciled in this state to whom an obligation of support is owed and with whom the nonresident formerly resided in this state.

(7) Parentage and support of a child who was conceived by the nonresident while he resided in or was in this state.

(8) Manufacturing of a product or component thereof which caused damage or injury in this state, if at the time of placing the product into the stream of commerce, the manufacturer could have foreseen, realized, expected, or anticipated that the product may eventually be found in this state by reason of its nature and the manufacturer's marketing practices.

B. In addition to the provisions of Subsection A, a court of this state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident on any basis consistent with the constitution of this state and of the Constitution of the United States.

Added by Acts 1964, No. 47, §3. Amended by Acts 1977, No. 734, §1, eff. July 21, 1977; Acts 1980, No. 764, §2; Acts 1984, No. 398, §1; Acts 1987, No. 418, §1; Acts 1988, No. 273, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:4361 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 4361
Deposit not earnest money; rule to turn over deposit
Status: in_force

If the terms of the sale provide for a deposit by the purchaser, this deposit shall not be considered earnest money and does not give the purchaser the right to withdraw from the sale by forfeiting the deposit. However, if the property is resold at the risk of the first purchaser, and a loss is occasioned by such resale, the party provoking the sale may proceed by rule against the first purchaser and the officer conducting the sale to have the deposit turned over to the plaintiff in rule, to the extent of such loss.

Added by Acts 1960, No. 32, §6, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1906 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1906
Shelter fund for the parish of Iberia; particular courts; establishment; disposition
Status: in_force

A. In addition to all other fees and costs now or hereafter provided by law, the clerk of court of the city courts of New Iberia and Jeanerette, and the municipal courts of Delcambre and Loreauville, except as otherwise provided by law and subject to the provisions of Code of Civil Procedure Article 5181 et seq., shall collect from every person filing any type of civil suit or proceeding a fee of three dollars per filing. In respect to the municipal courts, the fee shall be in addition to the maximum court costs provided for in R.S. 33:441(A).

B. In each criminal proceeding in which a fine is imposed or court costs are ordered to be paid, an additional fee of three dollars shall be collected by the clerk of the city or municipal court, which shall be in addition to all other fines, costs, or forfeitures lawfully imposed.

C. The clerk shall remit all funds collected pursuant to this Section for deposit in a special fund, which is hereby designated as "SNAP Shelter Fund for Iberia Parish". The expenditure of the funds shall be at the discretion of the board of directors of the local family violence program, Safety Net for Abused Persons, Inc. All funds shall be subject to and included in the program's annual audit. A copy of the audit shall be filed with the legislative auditor who shall make it available for public inspection.

Acts 1992, No. 696, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:915 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 915
Time for record in case of appeal
Status: in_force

In case of appeal the clerks of the district courts shall record the pleadings and judgments as aforesaid, together with the judgment of the district and appellate court, within six months from the filing of the judgment of the appellate court.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:4061 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 4061
Suit against state officer or board involving constitutionality of law authorizing expenditure; no temporary restraining order; preliminary injunction; suspensive appeal
Status: in_force

No court has jurisdiction to issue, or cause to be issued, any temporary restraining order against any officer of the state or any board or commission of the state in any suit involving the expenditure of public funds under any statute of this state, which authorizes the expenditure of such funds, based on the alleged unconstitutionality of such statute. In such cases, after hearing, preliminary writs of injunction may issue, and from the order or judgment directing the issuance of the same, such officers, boards and commissions shall have the right of suspensive appeal without bond and as a matter of right.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:621.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 621.1
First judicial district
Status: in_force

The First Judicial District Court shall have eleven judges. Four judges shall be elected from election section one, three judges shall be elected from election section two, and four judges shall be elected from election section three.

Acts 1956, Ex.Sess., No. 7, §1. Amended by Acts 1966, No. 2, §1; 1973, No. 117, §1; Acts 1976, No. 46, §1; Acts 1978, No. 39, §1, eff. June 1, 1978; Acts 1982, No. 21, §1(a), eff. July 9, 1982; Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 145, §1, eff. July 7, 1994; Acts 1997, No. 241, §1, eff. June 16, 1997.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5826 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5826
Salary and expense fund of the constables
Status: in_force

There shall be a salary and expense fund for the offices of the constables of the city courts in New Orleans. The funds shall be composed of all fees collected by the constables as provided in R.S. 13:2158. The constables shall pay from this fund any and all salaries, including their own, their deputies, and any and all clerical help, and any other expense of any nature whatsoever for the efficient performance of their duties as provided, including the purchase of any and all necessary office equipment or any other equipment, automobiles, or other necessities. The funds may be used to pay any bond premiums required by law, insurance premiums for themselves, their deputies, and their clerical help, if provided, and any other costs, or expense of any other nature whatsoever, as the said constables shall deem proper.

Amended by Acts 1978, No. 461, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1979; Redesignated from R.S. 33:1736 pursuant to Acts 2011, No. 248, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5721 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5721
Regional forensic science center
Status: in_force

A.(1) A regional forensic science center is hereby established to be composed of the parishes of Assumption, Jefferson, Orleans, Lafourche, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, Terrebonne, and Washington.

(2) The center shall be governed by a board of directors to be composed of the coroners of the parishes comprising the center.

(3) The center shall perform such examinations as the board of directors sees fit as well as perform such other functions as determined by a majority of the board.

(4) Fees for work performed by the center shall be determined by the board in an amount sufficient to cover the operating cost of the center.

(5) The cost of equipment and maintenance of the center shall be shared on a just and agreeable basis by the participating parishes.

B. No inmate within the custody of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections shall be housed, serviced, or maintained at such a center if it is located within one mile of a residential area. An area shall be considered a residential area if it has been zoned or designated as such by the appropriate local governing authority or if within an area of one-quarter square mile or larger there is a population density of two thousand or more persons per square mile.

Acts 1984, No. 570, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:1571 pursuant to Acts 2011, No. 248, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:75 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 75
Retirement of crier of Supreme Court; vacancy, how filled
Status: in_force

A. A crier of the Supreme Court of Louisiana may retire on two thirds pay when he shall have served continuously for a period of fifteen years immediately preceding the date of his retirement and shall have reached the age of eighty years.

B. Any crier retired under the provisions of this Section shall draw his retirement pay for the remainder of his life from the same source from which he has been compensated at the time he retired, the proportionate amount of pay as fixed herein based upon the salary received for the year preceding his retirement.

C. The legislature shall make the necessary provision in the general appropriation act to pay such retired crier and payment shall be made monthly on his own warrant, approved by the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.

D. Upon retiring, the crier shall notify the chief justice, the secretary of state, and the civil sheriff for the parish of Orleans, in writing, of the fact of his retirement, effective date thereof and his age on such date, showing the term of the continuous employment and the amount of salary received per annum prior to the date of his retirement.

E. The vacancy created by such retirement shall be filled by appointment by the judges of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Acts 1958, No. 323, §§1-5.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:3729 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 3729
Same; definition
Status: in_force

An ancient document is defined to mean any instrument of writing, including maps, plats and surveys, which has been recorded in the conveyance, mortgage, donation, miscellaneous or other official records of any parish of the state or in any office, bureau, department or agency of the state for a period of thirty years or more at the time such instrument is offered in evidence.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5563 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5563
Victims' service assistance program
Status: in_force

The sheriff of each parish, including the criminal sheriff of the parish of Orleans, is hereby authorized to establish and maintain a victims' service assistance program.

Acts 1984, No. 370, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:1463 pursuant to Acts 2011, No. 248, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5212 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5212
Applicability of Part
Status: in_force

The provisions of this Part, except as otherwise specifically provided by Book VIII of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure, shall govern and regulate the procedure in proceedings in small claims divisions of city courts.

Acts 1987, No. 256, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1597 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1597
Election of judge; clerk of court
Status: in_force

A. The judge of the juvenile court shall be elected at a special election called by the governor for the first term which shall not extend beyond the terms of the judges of the district court. Thereafter said judge shall be elected at the time fixed by law for the election of district judges throughout the state of Louisiana.

B. The clerk of court for the parish of Jefferson shall be ex-officio clerk of the juvenile court.

Acts 1958, Ex.Sess., No. 10, §§8, 9.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:4251.204 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 4251.204
Special jurisdiction
Status: in_force

A. A court of this state lacking jurisdiction under R.S. 13:4251.203(1) through (3) has special jurisdiction to do any of the following:

(1) Appoint a guardian in an emergency for a term not exceeding ninety days for a respondent who is physically present in this state.

(2) Issue a protective order with respect to immovable or corporeal movable property located in this state.

(3) Appoint a guardian or conservator for an incapacitated or protected person for whom a provisional order to transfer the proceeding from another state has been issued under procedures similar to R.S. 13:4251.301.

B. If a petition for the appointment of a guardian in an emergency is brought in this state and this state was not the respondent's home state on the date the petition was filed, the court shall dismiss the proceeding at the request of the court of the home state, if any, whether dismissal is requested before or after the emergency appointment.

Acts 2016, No. 333, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:4868 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 4868
Transcription of testimony
Status: in_force

The official court reporter, regularly or specially employed, shall take and transcribe the testimony taken in court, and the officer before whom testimony is taken under commission shall either take and transcribe the testimony or have it taken and transcribed by a competent stenographer under oath for the faithful performance of his duty. The stenographer taking and transcribing the testimony, whether in court or taken under commission, shall make three copies thereof and shall file one copy in the record and deliver one copy to the plaintiff and one copy to the defendant, all certified by him to be correct.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2493 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2493
Jurisdiction
Status: in_force

A. The jurisdiction of the court shall extend to the trial of violations of the ordinances of the city of New Orleans, including the enforcement of traffic violations within the city of New Orleans.

B. The jurisdiction of the courts shall further extend to the trial of violations of state statutes which are not triable by a jury, which jurisdiction shall be concurrent with that of the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans.

C. The jurisdiction of the court shall further extend to the trial of offenses involving traffic and the regulation thereof punishable by state statute including violations of the Criminal Code of Louisiana involving traffic and the trial of violations relating to street and highway regulatory laws and such other state laws as relate to the operation of a vehicle. The jurisdiction over state traffic offenses shall be concurrent with the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans. In addition, every prosecution in the Municipal and Traffic Court of New Orleans shall be filed in the court by affidavit or bill of information under the provision of state law defining the offense. The jurisdiction of the court shall further extend to appeals by any person aggrieved by an administrative hearing officer's decision concerning a traffic violation enforced by the city of New Orleans' automated traffic enforcement system. Any aggrieved person shall file such appeal within thirty days after the date of such decision. The court shall have de novo review over such appeals. The court shall adopt rules regulating the manner of taking, hearing, and deciding such appeals.

D. When exercising concurrent jurisdiction and in cases involving violation of an ordinance adopted pursuant to R.S. 14:143(B), all procedures shall comply with those parts of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, the Louisiana Revised Statutes, and the Code of Criminal Procedure pertaining to the prosecution of criminal cases not requiring trial by jury.

E. The jurisdiction of the Housing and Environmental Court Division shall extend to the trial of violations of the Building Code, the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance and Chapters 28, 30, 48, and 54 1 of the City Code of the city of New Orleans as provided by law, in addition to the general jurisdiction of the Municipal and Traffic Court of New Orleans.

F. The jurisdiction of the court shall extend to the granting of an injunction, preliminary injunction, or temporary restraining order pursuant to the provisions of Code of Civil Procedure Articles 3601 through 3613, when irreparable injury, loss, or damage may otherwise result to any person over whom the court has jurisdiction pursuant to this Section or as provided by law; however, the court shall not have the authority to grant injunctive relief with respect to any matter provided in Code of Civil Procedure Article 3604(B)(1) and (3) and (C).

G. Repealed by Acts 2016, No. 631, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2017.

Amended by Acts 1975, No. 386, §1; Acts 1982, No. 128, §1, eff. July 11, 1982; Acts 1997, No. 632, §1; Acts 2001, No. 944, §1; Acts 2014, No. 845, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2017; Acts 2016, No. 631, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2017.

1 In subsection D, as the enumeration appears in the original bill and the enrolled Act.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:4261.102 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 4261.102
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this Chapter:

(1) "Adult" means an individual with a disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. 12102, who has attained eighteen years of age or who is an emancipated minor.

(2) "Guardian" means a guardian as defined by R.S. 13:4251.102.

(3) "Supported decisionmaking" means a process of supporting and accommodating an adult to enable the adult to make life decisions, including decisions related to where the adult wants to live, the services, supports, and medical care the adult wants to receive, with whom the adult wants to live, and where the adult wants to work, without impeding the self-determination of the adult.

(4) "Supported decisionmaking agreement" is an agreement between an adult and a supporter entered into under this Chapter.

(5) "Supporter" means an individual who has attained the age of eighteen years of age and entered into a supported decisionmaking agreement with an adult.

Acts 2020, No. 258, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5203 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5203
Pleadings; citation; procedure; evidence; substantive law; depositions
Status: in_force

A. The pleadings, citation, and procedure provided by Articles 4901 through 4904 of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure shall be applicable to a small claims division created under authority of this Part. The technical rules of evidence are relaxed, and all relevant evidence is admissible, including hearsay, provided the judge satisfies himself of its general reliability; and further provided that the judgment is founded upon competent evidence.

B. A small claims division shall conduct hearings upon small claims in such manner as to do substantial justice between the parties according to the rules of substantive law, and shall not be bound by the statutory provisions or rules governing practice, procedure, pleading, or evidence, except statutory provisions relating to privileged communications.

C. No depositions shall be taken and no interrogatories or other discovery proceedings shall be used under the small claims procedure.

Added by Acts 1977, No. 710, §1. Amended by Acts 1979, No. 46, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 1980; Acts 1987, No. 256, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1571.9 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1571.9
Out of state probation officers; powers
Status: in_force

If a child has been placed on probation or protective supervision by a juvenile court of another state and the child is in this state with or without the permission of that court, the probation officer of that court or other person designated by that court to supervise or take custody of the child has all the powers and privileges in this state with respect to the child as given by this chapter to like officers or persons of this state, including the right of visitation, counseling, control, direction, taking into custody, and returning to that state.

Added by Acts 1972, No. 140, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:621.34 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 621.34
Thirty-fourth Judicial District
Status: in_force

The Thirty-fourth Judicial District Court shall have five judges.

Added by Acts 1977, No. 620, §10, eff. Jan. 1, 1979; Acts 1989, No. 611, §2(A); Acts 1999, No. 489, §1, eff. June 21, 1999.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5551 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5551
Bonds in name of governor; surety; recording
Status: in_force

A. Before a sheriff and ex-officio tax collector of state and parish taxes (the Parish of Orleans excepted) commences the discharge of his duties, or is recognized as such, he shall give bonds in favor of the governor, in amounts and conditioned as required by law. The surety on his bonds may be a bonding, surety or indemnity company qualified to do business in the state, which fact shall be shown by a certificate issued by the Secretary of State annexed to the bonds. The bonds and the certificates shall be filed with the clerk of the district court of the parish where the sheriff and ex-officio tax collector exercises the functions of his office, and shall be recorded by the clerk in a separate book kept for that purpose.

B. The bonds given by sheriffs and ex-officio tax collectors may be secured by at least two personal sureties, in which event the sureties shall reside within the parish wherein the officers exercise the functions of their office. Each of the sureties shall make oath that he has property over and above his liabilities and exemptions and homestead, sufficient to respond to the amount for which he obligates himself in the bond. The bonds shall be approved and accepted by the president of the police jury and the clerk of the district court of the parish, if good and sufficient, and shall be authenticated by the attestation of two witnesses and the signature of the clerk of the district court of the parish. They shall also be recorded in a separate book to be kept for that purpose, and registered in the mortgage records of the several parishes where the principal obligor may own immovables. The bonds, when so registered, shall operate from and after the date of the registry, as a mortgage on all the real estate of the principal obligors therein, in favor of the state, parish and all persons interested. In the event the sheriff furnishes bonds with personal sureties, before he commences the discharge of his duties as sheriff and ex-officio collector of state and parish taxes, or is recognized, he shall make affidavit and have the same recorded in the mortgage records of the parish in which he is to discharge his official functions, that he has caused his official bonds aforesaid to be recorded, as above provided, in all the parishes of the state in which he owns immovables, and he shall transmit to the auditor of public accounts duly authenticated copies of the bonds, with due certificates of the registry and also a duplicate of the affidavit.

Redesignated from R.S. 33:1445 pursuant to Acts 2011, No. 248, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1858 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1858
Provisions and measures to prevent abduction
Status: in_force

A. If a petition is filed under this Part, the court may enter an order that shall include:

(1) The basis for the court's exercise of jurisdiction.

(2) The manner in which notice and opportunity to be heard were given to the persons entitled to notice of the proceeding.

(3) A detailed description of each party's custody and visitation rights and residential arrangements for the child.

(4) A provision stating that a violation of the order may subject the party in violation to civil and criminal penalties.

(5) Identification of the child's country of habitual residence at the time of the issuance of the order.

B. If, at a hearing on a petition under this Part or on the court's own motion, the court after reviewing the evidence finds a credible risk of abduction of the child, the court shall enter an abduction prevention order. The order shall include the provisions required by Subsection A of this Section and measures and conditions, including those in Subsections C, D, and E of this Section, that are reasonably calculated to prevent abduction of the child, giving due consideration to the custody and visitation rights of the parties. The court shall consider the age of the child, the potential harm to the child from an abduction, the legal and practical difficulties of returning the child to the jurisdiction if abducted, and the reasons for the potential abduction, including evidence of domestic violence, stalking, or child abuse or neglect.

C. An abduction prevention order may include one or more of the following:

(1) An imposition of travel restrictions that require that a party traveling with the child outside the territorial limits of the United States provide the other party with the following:

(a) The travel itinerary of the child.

(b) A list of physical addresses and telephone numbers at which the child can be reached at specified times.

(c) Copies of all travel documents.

(2) A prohibition of the respondent directly or indirectly, either:

(a) Removing the child from the United States without permission of the court or the petitioner's written consent.

(b) Removing or retaining the child in violation of a child-custody determination.

(c) Removing the child from school or a child-care or similar facility.

(d) Approaching the child at any location other than a site designated for supervised visitation.

(3) With regard to the child's passport, all of the following:

(a) A direction that the petitioner is to place the child's name in the United States Department of State Children's Passport Issuance Alert Program.

(b) A requirement that the respondent surrender to the court or the petitioner's attorney any United States or foreign passport issued in the child's name, including a passport issued in the name of both the parent and the child.

(c) A prohibition upon the respondent from applying on behalf of the child for a new or replacement passport or visa.

(4) As a prerequisite to exercising custody or visitation, a requirement that the respondent provide all of the following:

(a) To the United States Department of State Office of Children's Issues and the relevant foreign consulate or embassy, an authenticated copy of the order detailing passport and travel restrictions for the child.

(b) To the court:

(i) Proof that the respondent has provided the information in Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph.

(ii) An acknowledgment in a record from the relevant foreign consulate or embassy that no passport application has been made, or passport issued, on behalf of the child.

(c) To the petitioner, proof of registration with the United States Embassy or other United States diplomatic presence in the destination country and with the Central Authority for the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, if that convention is in effect between the United States and the destination country, unless one of the parties objects.

(d) A written waiver under the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. Section 552a, with respect to any document, application, or other information pertaining to the child authorizing its disclosure to the court and the petitioner.

(5) Upon the petitioner's request, a requirement that the respondent obtain an order from the relevant foreign country containing terms identical to the child-custody determination issued in the United States.

D. In an abduction prevention order, the court may impose conditions on the exercise of custody or visitation that:

(1) Limit visitation or require that visitation with the child by the respondent be supervised until the court finds that supervision is no longer necessary and order the respondent to pay the costs of supervision.

(2) Require the respondent to post a bond or provide other security in an amount sufficient to serve as a financial deterrent to abduction, the proceeds of which may be used to pay for the reasonable expenses of recovery of the child, including reasonable attorney fees and costs if there is an abduction.

(3) Require the respondent to obtain education on the potentially harmful effects to the child from abduction.

E. To prevent imminent abduction of a child, a court may either:

(1) Issue a warrant to take physical custody of the child under R.S. 13: 1859 or the law of this state other than this Part.

(2) Direct the use of law enforcement to take any action reasonably necessary to locate the child, obtain return of the child, or enforce a custody determination under this Part or the law of this state other than this Part.

(3) Grant any other relief allowed under any law of this state other than this Part.

F. The remedies provided in this Part are cumulative and do not affect the availability of other remedies to prevent abduction.

Acts 2007, No. 369, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:722 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 722
Commissioners: qualifications; salary and benefits; restrictions on employment; office space; supplies; equipment; employees
Status: in_force

A. The qualifications for the office of commissioner for the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court shall be the same as the qualifications for office for district court judges, however there shall be no requirement of prior residency within the district boundaries of the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court as a prerequisite to the office of commissioner.

B. The salary of the commissioners shall be set by a majority of the elected judges of the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court and shall not exceed eighty-five percent of the salary of a district judge per annum. A commissioner may be a member of the Parochial Employees' Retirement System.

C. A commissioner shall be a full-time employee of the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court. A commissioner shall not engage in any outside business, occupation, or employment that is inconsistent with the expeditious, proper, and impartial performance of the commissioner's duties as judicial officer, nor shall a commissioner engage in the practice of law. Any question regarding the conduct of any outside business, occupation, or employment by a commissioner shall be resolved by a majority of the elected judges of the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court. The provisions of this Subsection shall not abrogate or supersede any provisions of the Rules of Professional Conduct applicable to attorneys or the Louisiana Code of Judicial Conduct applicable to judges.

D. Office space for the commissioners may be provided by the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court, out of funds available to the court.

E. Any employee of the offices of commissioner shall be hired only upon the prior approval of employment by a majority of the elected judges of the court pursuant to adopted rules or the specific order of the court and may be a member of the Parochial Employees' Retirement System.

F. The salaries, related benefits, and expenses of the commissioners, and the salaries and related benefits of the employees of the commissioners, the costs of the equipment and supplies of the commissioners and their employees, and other costs of implementing this Section and R.S. 13:721 shall be paid from funds available to the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court.

G. The sources of funding for the commissioners and their offices and employees shall include but shall not be limited to the following sources:

(1) Subject to the other provisions of this Section, there is hereby imposed an additional fee on all persons convicted in the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court of felony, misdemeanor, and traffic offenses. The amount of the additional fees shall be set by the judges of the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court sitting en banc. The amount of the additional fee in felony cases shall not exceed one hundred dollars. The amount of the additional fee in misdemeanor and traffic cases shall not exceed seven dollars and fifty cents.

(2) The additional fees created in this Section shall be collected by the sheriffs in the same manner as all other criminal court costs. All additional fees collected under this Section shall be remitted by the sheriffs to the governing authorities of the parishes of St. Tammany and Washington and deposited into special accounts. These funds are to be used by the parishes, only when authorized by court order from the chief judge of the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court, to defray the costs and expenses incurred pursuant to the provisions of this Section and other related judicial expenditures.

(3) If any part of the provisions of this Section become dependent upon monies from the general fund of the respective parishes, the provisions of this Section and of R.S. 13:721 shall terminate if a parish governing authority fails to appropriate sufficient monies to provide for the continuation of the offices of commissioner for the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court.

H. The commissioners shall use the title of commissioner in the performance of their duties under the provisions of this Section and R.S. 13:721.

Acts 2002, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 28, §1, eff. Aug. 16, 2002; Acts 2022, No. 291, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1212.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1212.1
Expenses
Status: in_force

NOTE: Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 621, §19(B), eff. when the clerk of the 41 st JDC takes office.

In addition to his salary, the clerk of the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, shall receive a sum not to exceed ten percent of his annual salary as an expense allowance. This allowance shall be payable out of the judicial expense fund upon the warrant of the clerk of the civil district court.

Added by Acts 1975, No. 416, §1; Acts 2006, No. 621, §19(B), eff.when the clerk of the 41 st JDC takes office.

NOTE: Acts 2006, No. 621, which created the 41 st J.D.C., provided for an effective date of Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2008, No. 873, extended the effective date to Dec. 31, 2014.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:717 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 717
Commissioners for the Twenty-fourth Judicial District Court
Status: in_force

A. There are hereby created three offices of commissioner for the Twenty-fourth Judicial District Court.

B. The commissioners shall be selected by a majority of the judges of the Twenty-fourth Judicial District and may be removed from office by a majority of those judges.

C. One of the commissioners shall have jurisdiction over civil matters involving domestic relations and family law only, one commissioner shall have jurisdiction over criminal matters only, and one commissioner shall have jurisdiction over domestic relations, family law, and criminal matters. Each of the commissioners shall have been admitted to the practice of law in this state for at least five years prior to his selection as commissioner and shall have been domiciled in the judicial district for the two years preceding his selection as commissioner.

D.(1) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, the commissioners shall have all of the powers of a judge of a district court. The powers of the commissioners shall not be inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state, the constitution and laws of the United States, the rules for Louisiana district courts, the rules of the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court, and the duties assigned to the commissioners by that court.

(2) The powers of the commissioners hearing criminal matters shall include but shall not be limited to the power to:

(a) Administer oaths and affirmations.

(b) Take acknowledgments, affidavits, and depositions.

(c) Sign orders.

(d) Act on felony charges through arraignment; however, commissioners shall not accept pleas of guilty on felony charges.

(e) Accept pleas on misdemeanor charges.

(f) Hear preliminary motions prior to filing the bill of information or indictment.

(g) Fix bail.

(h) Sign and issue search and arrest warrants in accordance with the general provisions of law, including the requirement of the showing of probable cause.

(i) Find and punish for contempt of court as a district court judge.

(3) No party shall be ordered to appear before the commissioner for arraignment more than twice prior to the filing of a bill of information or indictment against that party. Nothing in this Paragraph shall restrict the authority of the commissioner to subpoena a party to appear for arraignment after a bill of information or indictment has been filed against that party.

E. Repealed by Acts 2003, No. 714, §2.

F. The powers of the commissioners hearing domestic matters shall include but not be limited to the power to:

(1) Administer oaths and affidavits.

(2) Render and sign judgments and orders confirming judgments by default in accordance with the general provisions of law, including the requirement of introducing proof sufficient to establish a prima facie case.

(3) Grant uncontested divorces.

(4) Implement interim child support and custody orders as follows:

(a) A certified copy of such orders will be provided to the parties at the time of the court's ruling. If no objection is filed in writing with the district court judge having jurisdiction over the case, within three days of rendition and notification either by the commissioner or through service by the clerk of court, exclusive of weekends and holidays, the order shall become a final judgment of the court and shall be signed by a judge of the Twenty-fourth Judicial District Court and is appealable as any other final judgment.

(b) Any party who disagrees with a judgment or ruling of a commissioner may file a written objection thereto. The objection shall be filed within three days of the judgment or ruling being received by the party either from the commissioner or by service through the clerk of court and shall be filed in accordance with the rules of the Twenty-fourth Judicial District Court. The objection shall be heard by the judge of the Twenty-fourth Judicial District Court to whom the matter was originally allotted.

(c) The judge may decide the objection based on the record of the proceedings before the commissioner or may receive further evidence and rule based on that evidence, together with the prior evidence, or may recommit the matter to the commissioner with instructions.

(d) Every order given to the parties by the commissioner or served upon the parties by the clerk of court shall contain the following notice:

IMPORTANT NOTICE

This order, if not contested in writing within three days of receipt from the commissioner or through service by the clerk of court, exclusive of weekends and holidays, will be signed by a judge of the Twenty-fourth Judicial District Court and will become a final judgment of the court.

(5) Approve consent judgments.

(6) Sign ex parte and emergency orders.

(7) Find and punish for contempt of court in the same manner as a district court judge.

(8) Handle preliminary disputes concerning discovery or the issuance of subpoenas.

(9) Adjudicate any other domestic matter not specifically excluded in Subsection G.

G. Except as provided in this Subsection, the domestic commissioners shall not have the power to adjudicate cases in a contested matter of divorce, custody, permanent spousal support, paternity, or partition of community property, unless the parties consent in writing to the jurisdiction of the commissioner. Each time an action is filed with the clerk of court for the Twenty-fourth Judicial District Court, the clerk shall notify the parties to that action of their right to consent to jurisdiction by the commissioners. In each case in which all the parties provide a written waiver of their right to have their case heard by a district court judge, and provide written consent to the matter being heard and adjudicated by a commissioner, the commissioners may conduct any and all proceedings on any matter pending before the court and may order the entry of judgment in the case. Each judgment so recommended by a commissioner shall be signed by a judge of the Twenty-fourth Judicial District Court. Any party who is aggrieved by a judgment entered by a commissioner may appeal that judgment in the same manner as any other judgment entered by a district court.

H. The judges of the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court shall evaluate the commissioners annually and issue a report by June first of each year as to their effectiveness and the need for continuing the offices. The report shall be a public record.

Acts 1997, No. 824, §1, eff. July 10, 1997; Acts 1999, No. 946, §1, eff. July 9, 1999; Acts 2003, No. 714, §§1 and 2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:621.27 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 621.27
Twenty-seventh judicial district
Status: in_force

The Twenty-seventh Judicial District Court shall have four judges. One judge, Division C, shall be elected from election district one, one judge, Division A, shall be elected from election district two, one judge, Division D, shall be elected from election district three, and one judge, Division B, shall be elected from election district four.

Acts 1956, Ex.Sess., No. 7, §1. Amended by Acts 1958, No. 11, §1; Acts 1971, No. 158, §1; Acts 1982, No. 21, §5(a), eff. July 9, 1982; Acts 1992, No. 1069, §1, eff. July 14, 1992.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2587.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2587.3
Prosecution of property standards and nuisance violations in justice of the peace courts
Status: in_force

When a justice of the peace court in St. Tammany Parish has concurrent jurisdiction over a property standards or nuisance violation adopted pursuant to local ordinance, the constable of that court may act as prosecutor if authorized by the court, or the deputy constable if authorized may act as prosecutor if the constable was the arresting officer, issued the citations of summons, or is a witness. If there is no deputy constable, then the justice of the peace may appoint a special deputy constable to prosecute the case or may authorize a constable from another ward in the parish to prosecute the matter.

Acts 2019, No. 28, §1, eff. May 30, 2019.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2601 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2601
Justice of the peace ward; West Feliciana Parish
Status: in_force

Effective upon the expiration in 1972 of the existing terms of office of the justices of the peace in all wards of the parish of West Feliciana, there shall be one justice of the peace ward for the parish of West Feliciana, which shall encompass the entire parish, with one justice of the peace therein.

Added by Acts 1970, No. 12, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:3855 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 3855
Recordation and entry deemed seizure and possession by sheriff; recordation notice of privilege of seizing creditor
Status: in_force

The entry of the description of the immovable property to be seized in the sheriff's seizure book and the filing of the notice for recordation in the office of the recorder of mortgages, as provided in R.S. 13:3853 and 13:3854, shall be considered the actual seizure and possession by the sheriff of the immovable property described; and it is not necessary for the sheriff to make an actual seizure or to take actual possession thereof, or to appoint a keeper therefor.

The filing of the notice for recordation in the office of the recorder of mortgages, as provided in R.S. 13:3853, constitutes notice to third persons of the seizure and of the existence of the privilege accorded by law to the seizing creditor.

Acts 1960, No. 32, §6, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:3419 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 3419
Notices to director
Status: in_force

The clerk of court in which any action is brought, whether originally, by appeal, or otherwise, in any case in which a director of personnel is a party, as herein provided, shall give to such director all notices required to be furnished to a party in any similar judicial proceeding.

Acts 1962, No. 57, §4.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1344 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1344
Homicide section; Orleans Parish Criminal District Court; assignment of judges; jurisdiction; transfer of cases; expedited handling of writs and appeals; applicability of section to other district courts
Status: in_force

A. The judges of the Criminal District Court for the parish of Orleans who are in office on August 15, 2009, may create the homicide section of that court, by rule of court adopted by the judges sitting en banc. The rule may designate not less than one incumbent judge who may be assigned to a homicide section in accordance with the rules of the Criminal District Court for the parish of Orleans.

B. Any homicide section may be assigned the following cases:

(1) Solicitation for murder (R.S. 14:28.1)

(2) First degree murder (R.S. 14:30)

(3) Second degree murder (R.S. 14:30.1)

(4) Manslaughter (R.S. 14:31)

(5) First degree feticide (R.S. 14:32.6)

(6) Assault by drive-by shooting (R.S. 14:37.1)

(7) Second degree feticide (R.S. 14:32.7)

(8) Aggravated assault upon a peace officer with a firearm (R.S. 14:37.2)

(9) Aggravated assault with a firearm (R.S. 14:37.4)

(10) Attempt to commit the crimes enumerated in Paragraphs (1) through (4) and (6) of this Subsection.

(11) Any other crime committed using a firearm as designated by the judges en banc.

C. If a homicide division is created by the judges of the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans, cases shall be assigned to the homicide section. If more than one homicide section is created, cases shall be assigned by random allotment among those sections. As to cases pending in the criminal district court at the time any homicide section is created the judge of each division shall determine which cases on the court's docket are enumerated in Paragraphs (B)(1) through (11) of this Section. The criminal district court en banc shall determine which cases shall be transferred to a homicide section. Any judge of the criminal district court, on his own motion, may transfer any such case by signing the necessary order to transfer the case to a homicide section respecting the principle of random allotment.

D. Any homicide section, court, or division adopted pursuant to R.S. 13:587.4 shall conform to the extent practicable to the provisions of this Section.

Acts 2009, No. 215, §1, eff. June 30, 2009; Acts 2012, No. 474, §4(B)(2).
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1274 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1274
Transcription for purpose of appeal
Status: in_force

In case the transcription of the court reporter's notes shall be requested by a litigant, after judgment, for the purposes of an appeal, the whole cost of such transcription shall be paid primarily by such party, but ultimately shall be taxed as costs.

Acts 2006, No. 621, §19(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2008, No. 675, §1, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2008, No. 873, §1, eff. July 9, 2008; Acts 2011, No. 340, §2, eff. June 29, 2011; Acts 2012, No. 474, §4(B)(2).
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1570 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1570
REPEALED BY ACTS 1991, NO. 235, §17, EFF. JAN. 1, 1992.
Status: repealed

{{NOTE: SEE ACTS 1991, NO. 976, WHICH ENACTED R.S. 13:1570(B).}}
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1301 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1301
Sessions of court
Status: in_force

The civil district court shall hold continuous sessions during nine-and-a-half months of the year. The court shall remain open on all legal days during the whole year for granting interlocutory orders, issuing all writs, trial of rules to quash writs, trial of proceedings instituted by a landlord for the possession of leased property, trial of partition proceedings, and for such probate and insolvency business as the court en banc may determine by rule.

Acts 2006, No. 621, §19(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2008, No. 675, §1, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2008, No. 873, §1, eff. July 9, 2008; Acts 2011, No. 340, §2, eff. June 29, 2011; Acts 2012, No. 474, §4(B)(2).
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1905 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1905
Legal representation by the attorney general
Status: in_force

A. It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this state that the state, through the attorney general, shall provide legal representation to a city court judge of this state in all claims, demands, or suits, if such claim, demand, or suit arises out of the discharge of his duties and is within the scope of his office and such claim, demand, or suit did not result from the intentional wrongful act or gross negligence of the city court judge.

B. Within five days after a city court judge is served with any summons, complaint, process, notice, demand, or pleading, he shall deliver the original or a copy thereof to the attorney general. If, after thorough investigation by the attorney general, it appears that the city court judge was not acting in the discharge of his duties and within the scope of his office at the time of the alleged act or omission, or that he was acting in an intentionally wrongful manner or was grossly negligent, the attorney general's office shall decline representation and the state shall not be responsible for providing any representation to the city court judge.

C. The decision of the attorney general not to defend a city court judge and any and all information obtained by him as a result of the investigations conducted pursuant to Subsection B shall be considered confidential and shall not be admissible as evidence in any legal proceeding and no reference thereto shall be made in any trial or hearing.

D. Nothing in this Section shall in any way impair, limit, or modify the rights and obligations of any insurer under any policy of insurance or impair the right of the individual to obtain private counsel in his own behalf.

E. This Section shall not be construed as creating a right of indemnification by a city court judge against the state for any claim, demand, suit, or judgment whatsoever.

Acts 1991, No. 553, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:996.22.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 996.22.1
Judicial expense fund for the Tenth Judicial District; additional costs in criminal cases
Status: in_force

The judges of the Tenth Judicial District, sitting en banc, are authorized to increase the maximum amount of costs that may be imposed in all criminal cases over which the district court has jurisdiction against every defendant who is convicted after trial or after plea of guilty or who forfeits his bond, in an amount which shall not exceed ten dollars and which shall be in addition to all other fines, costs, or forfeitures lawfully imposed. All sums so taxed and collected shall be transmitted by the sheriff to the clerk of court as provided by law governing the judicial expense fund.

Acts 2004, No. 403, §1; Acts 2011, 1 st Ex. Sess., No. 38, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:3951 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 3951
Exemption of wages earned out of state
Status: in_force

Wages earned out of this state and payable out of this state shall be exempt from attachment or garnishment in all cases where the cause of action arose out of this state. The garnishees in such cases shall plead such exemption unless the defendant is actually served with the process.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:846 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 846
Additional fees; attending court sessions; transcripts of appeal in criminal cases; costs of prosecution; forfeited bail bond
Status: in_force

A. In addition to other fees fixed by law, the clerks of the several district courts throughout the state of Louisiana, the parish of Orleans excepted, shall be entitled to demand and receive the following fees of office:

(1)(a)(i) For preparing transcripts of appeal in each criminal case, exclusive of the fees of the court reporter for taking oral testimony, the net sum of twenty dollars to be taxed as costs of prosecution.

(ii) This amount shall be paid to the clerk in each case by the parish, and in all cases where the costs of the prosecution are paid by the defendant, the aforesaid fee shall be paid into the parish treasury.

(b) In all criminal cases involving traffic offenses under Title 32 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 when as a part of the sentence imposed the accused is condemned to pay costs of prosecution, the sum of seven dollars and fifty cents shall be assessed, collected, and paid over to the clerk of court by the sheriff as the clerk's fee.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in all cases where a criminal bail bond posted by a commercial surety is forfeited and is actually collected by the district attorney, including the parish of Orleans, the sum of thirty dollars total for each judgment for which notices are sent pursuant to Code of Criminal Procedure Article 349.3 shall be paid to the clerk of court by the district attorney from the proceeds of such collection and the balance collected shall be paid by the district attorney according to law; in all cases where a bail bond is forfeited and is actually collected by the sheriff, the sum of seven dollars and fifty cents out of the amount of the forfeited bond shall be paid to the clerk of court by the sheriff as the clerk's fee.

(2) For attending the sessions of the district court when in actual session, the governing body of the parish may pay to the clerk or his deputies a fee not to exceed twenty dollars for each day, but shall pay a fee of not less than eight dollars for each day.

B. The funds derived by the clerk of court in the parish of Calcasieu from that portion of the fees collectable pursuant to this Section above the amount of such fees collectable at the rates provided by R.S. 13:846 prior to the amendment thereof at the 1981 Regular Session of the Legislature shall be expended exclusively for the payment of salaries of deputy clerks of court in that parish.

Amended by Acts 1950, No. 535, §1; Acts 1952, No. 339, §1; Acts 1964, No. 398, §1; Acts 1970, No. 151, §1; Acts 1981, No. 359, §1; Acts 1984, No. 438, §1; Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 52, §2, eff. Sept. 1, 1994; Acts 2006, No. 621, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2010, No. 733, §1; Acts 2010, No. 733, §2, eff. Dec. 31, 2014; Acts 2010, No. 914, §2; Acts 2012, No. 474, §5(A).
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:4985 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 4985
Nonjoinder of co-owners
Status: in_force

Where real property is partitioned, either in kind or by licitation, by either judicial or conventional partition the fact that one or more co-owners are not parties thereto shall not affect the validity of such partition as to the co-owners who are parties thereto or their heirs or assigns; provided that the rights of any co-owner not a party to such partition shall not be affected thereby and the interest of such co-owner in the property partitioned shall remain the same as if the property had not been partitioned.

Acts 1952, No. 403, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:3714 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 3714
Charts or records of hospitals, other health care providers; admissibility of certified or attested copy; BAC scientific analysis reports
Status: in_force

A. Whenever a certified copy of the chart or record of any hospital, signed by the administrator or the medical records librarian of the hospital in question, or a copy of a bill for services rendered, medical narrative, chart, or record of any other state health care provider, as defined by R.S. 40:1299.39(A)(1) and any other health care provider as defined in R.S. 40:1299.41(A), certified or attested to by the state health care provider or the private health care provider, is offered in evidence in any court of competent jurisdiction, it shall be received in evidence by such court as prima facie proof of its contents, provided that the party against whom the bills, medical narrative, chart, or record is sought to be used may summon and examine those making the original of the bills, medical narrative, chart, or record as witnesses under cross-examination.

B. In any civil action, whenever a certified copy of Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of state police crime laboratory, scientific analysis report of the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) test results of any person is offered in evidence in any court of competent jurisdiction, it shall be received in evidence by such court as prima facie proof of its contents, provided that the party against whom the scientific analysis report is sought to be used may summon and examine those making the report of the blood alcohol concentration as witnesses under cross-examination.

C. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section to the contrary, in any civil action, whenever the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) test results are from a source other than the office of state police crime laboratory of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, if a timely challenge is raised in a court of competent jurisdiction to the authenticity, reliability, or accuracy of the test results, or to the lack of a proper foundation for the admissibility of the test results into evidence, the court shall conduct a hearing to determine the validity of the challenge and, if it finds that the challenge is well-founded, the court may rule the blood alcohol concentration test results inadmissible. The provisions of this Subsection shall not apply to a proceeding to suspend or disqualify a driver's license pursuant to R.S. 32:661 et seq., R.S. 32:414, or R.S. 32:414.2.

Acts 1984, No. 92, §1; Acts 1999, No. 1261, §1; Acts 2005, No. 52, §1; Acts 2008, No. 679, §1, eff. July 1, 2008.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:3052 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 3052
Time for urging objections
Status: in_force

All objections to the manner of selecting or drawing the jury or to any defect or irregularity that can be pleaded against any array or venire must be urged before entering on the trial of the case; otherwise, all such objections shall be considered as waived and shall not afterwards be urged or heard.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1000.13 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1000.13
Twenty-Seventh Judicial District Court; additional warrant recall fees
Status: in_force

A. The Twenty-Seventh Judicial District Court may levy and impose a warrant recall fee not to exceed fifty dollars on all persons who fail to appear as ordered on all felony offenses, misdemeanor offenses, and traffic offenses where a warrant for arrest is issued. This fee shall be in addition to all other fines, costs, or forfeitures lawfully imposed and which shall be transmitted to the clerk for further disposition in accordance with the provisions of this Section.

B. The clerk of court shall place all sums collected or received pursuant to this Section in a separate account. All monies in this account shall be used solely for the purpose of defraying the expenses associated with recalling warrants and for the operational expenses of the court.

C. No more than four warrant recall fees shall be imposed by each judge against any person pursuant to the provisions of this Section.

D. In the event that an individual is unable to pay the cost when assessed, the court may allow payment to be deferred within a certain time frame, based on the person's ability to pay the costs.

Acts 2015, No. 197, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2160 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2160
Application of provisions of R.S. 13:5558-13:5592 to constables of city courts
Status: in_force

R.S. 13:5558 through 13:5592, relative to the costs of the civil sheriff of the parish of Orleans, shall apply to and govern the costs of the constables of the city courts of New Orleans, and the collection thereof.

Added by Acts 1960, No. 32, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2074.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2074.3
Hammond; nonrefundable civil fee, assessment and disposition
Status: in_force

A. Except as otherwise provided by law and subject to the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure Art. 5181, et seq., in addition to any other fees or costs provided by law, the clerk of the Hammond City Court shall collect from each person filing any civil suit or proceeding a nonrefundable fee, not to exceed thirty dollars, in an amount determined by the judge.

B. The clerk shall place all funds collected pursuant to this Section in the court general fund, special cost account, to supplement the operational expenses of the court. The expenditure of the funds shall be at the sole discretion of the judge of the court. All funds shall be subject to and included in the court's annual audit. A copy of the audit shall be filed with the legislative auditor who shall make it available for public inspection.

C. The assessment and disposition of any funds pursuant to this Section shall not affect the responsibilities of the city and parish governing authority provided by law for the financing of the Hammond City Court.

Acts 1986, No. 148, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:4108.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 4108.1
Deficiency judgment when obligations based upon commercial transaction
Status: in_force

A. As an exception to R.S. 13:4106 and 4107, if a mortgagee or other creditor holds a mortgage, pledge, security interest, or privilege which secures an obligation in a commercial transaction, the mortgagee or other creditor may collect from or pursue any debtor, guarantor, or surety for a deficiency judgment on the secured obligation whether or not the mortgagee or other creditor has foreclosed on all or any of the property and sold such property at a judicial, public, or private sale, with or without appraisal, regardless of the minimum bid, and whether or not the mortgagee or other creditor has acquired such property from any debtor, guarantor, or surety pursuant to a complete or partial giving in payment. However, other than with regard to a secured transaction subject to Chapter 9 of the Louisiana Commercial Laws, a mortgagee or other creditor may not pursue any debtor, guarantor, or surety for more than the secured obligation, minus the reasonably equivalent value of the property sold.

B. For the purpose of this Section, the terms "commercial transaction" and "reasonably equivalent value" shall have the following meanings:

(1) "Commercial transaction" means any transaction entered into primarily for business or commercial purposes.

(2) "Reasonably equivalent value" means the value that the owner and the mortgagee or other creditor of the property being sold or otherwise disposed of agree to attribute to the property for the purposes of reducing the secured debt.

Acts 1986, No. 489, §2; Acts 1989, No. 137, §8, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:4727 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 4727
Head of corporation; liability
Status: in_force

Where a gambling house as defined in R.S. 13:4721 is owned by a corporation, the president or executive head thereof shall be as fully amenable to the provisions of this Sub-part and the penalties hereunder as though such president or executive head were actually the owner of the gambling house.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1828 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1828
Enforcement of registered determination
Status: in_force

A. A court of this state may grant any relief normally available under the law of this state to enforce a registered child custody determination made by a court of another state.

B. A court of this state shall recognize and enforce, but may not modify, except in accordance with Subpart B, a registered child custody determination of a court of another state.

Acts 2006, No. 822, §1, eff. Aug. 15, 2007.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:3925 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 3925
Indebtedness of employee to employer
Status: in_force

A. If the employer answering such interrogatories should plead that the employee is indebted to the employer for other amounts due and owing, other than those specified in R.S. 13:3881, the employer shall make a full and complete disclosure of the status of such account to the creditor, in writing by certified mail, showing the time that the debt was incurred, the exact amount of the debt, the credits applied to the debt, the manner in which the debt is being liquidated as of the time of the service of the interrogatories, and all other pertinent facts. Thereafter, the seizing creditor shall have fifteen days to file an opposition to the court's consideration of the employee-employer debt as liquidated. Failure to file an opposition shall be considered a waiver of the seizing creditor's rights to oppose the court's consideration of the employee-employer debt as liquidated. If an opposition is filed with the court within the appropriate legal delays, the court may hear evidence affecting the issue of liquidation and shall render a judgment to determine whether the employee-employer debt should be considered liquidated, and thereby, allow payment to the employer of the non-exempt portion of the employee's salary, wage or commission at a specified rate in the same manner as if the employer were a judgment creditor having a prior garnishment.

B. It is the stated intention of this Section that the employer shall be presumed to be one holding a prior garnishment. It is the further intention of this Section, once an employee-employer debt is considered liquidated, either by waiver or judgment, that the retirement of such indebtedness be limited in the time within which such indebtedness should be considered paid and other equitable matters which the judge may consider so that the employee-employer debt be paid in full in order that other garnishments may attach.

C. The provisions of this Section shall not grant a preference over the enforcement of child support.

Acts 1991, No. 156, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:3482 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 3482
R.S. 13:3479 through 13:3481 not to affect other methods of process against non-residents
Status: in_force

Nothing in R.S. 13:3479 through 13:3481 shall be construed as affecting other methods of process against non-residents as now provided by existing laws.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:472 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 472
Rules for the conduct of business
Status: in_force

Each district court may adopt rules for the conduct of business before it. These rules shall be entered in the minutes of the court and published in the manner which the court deems most effective and practicable.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2488.25 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2488.25
Court reporter
Status: in_force

The judge of the city court shall approve competent court reporters who shall be charged with the duty of taking testimony in all record cases coming before the court. The payment of the fee for the services of the reporter shall be made by the plaintiff upon the filing of the transcript of testimony, and the court reporter is not required to file such transcription with the clerk of court prior to such payment.

Acts 1970, No. 424, §5.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1381.7 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1381.7
Clerk of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court
Status: in_force

A. The legislature finds that adequate funding of the office of Clerk of the Criminal District Court for the parish of Orleans is necessary for the efficient performance of the powers and duties required of a judicial officer of the state. Pursuant to the exercise of the police power of the state, actions for obtaining adequate funding are necessary to promote judicial efficiency and to protect and promote the lives, health, morals, comfort, and general welfare of people as a whole. The amounts to be appropriated and paid by the city of New Orleans for expenses, including salaries and maintenance of constitutional officers, their deputies, subordinates, and employees shall not be reduced by the city of New Orleans without the consent of the legislature.

B. The legislature further finds that state statutes mandating payment by the city of New Orleans to the state's employees and officers of the Clerk for the Criminal District Court for the parish of Orleans constitute a valid exercise of state's police power, and such statutes do not violate the provisions of the Louisiana Constitution of 1921 or the Louisiana Constitution of 1974.

C. Nothing contained in this Section shall be construed as giving to the city of New Orleans any rights, powers, authority, or jurisdiction over any constitutional officers, their deputies, employees, subordinates, or over any state or district officers, their deputies, subordinates, or employees.

Acts 2013, No. 229, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5720 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5720
Establishment of forensic laboratory by mutual consent; cost to be shared
Status: in_force

A. By agreement of the coroners of any two or more parishes, subject to approval of the governing authorities of their respective parishes, there may be established a forensic laboratory. The laboratory and its facilities shall be at the disposal of the coroners and law enforcement officers of the parish.

B. The cost of equipping and maintaining the laboratory shall be shared on a mutually agreeable basis by the participating parishes.

Acts 1984, No. 570, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:1570 pursuant to Acts 2011, No. 248, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1272 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1272
Duties; salary
Status: in_force

Each court reporter shall attend the sessions of the division to which he is assigned and, subject to the orders of the presiding judge of such division, shall take down stenographically the testimony offered therein, and such other matters as may be directed by the presiding judge of such division. Each court reporter shall receive such compensation as shall be fixed by the judges of the court, payable out of the judicial expense fund.

Amended by Acts 1950, No. 366, §2; Acts 2006, No. 621, §19(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2008, No. 675, §1, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2008, No. 873, §1, eff. July 9, 2008; Acts 2011, No. 340, §2, eff. June 29, 2011; Acts 2012, No. 474, §4(B)(2).
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2488.77 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2488.77
Collection of fines, forfeitures, penalties, and costs
Status: in_force

A. The city judge, or any other officer of the city court designated by the city judge, shall collect all fines, forfeitures, penalties, and costs, and all funds so collected, excluding costs, shall be paid into the town treasury of the town of Breaux Bridge when the prosecution is on behalf of the town, and into the parish treasury of the St. Martin Parish police jury general fund when the prosecution is on behalf of the state or the parish.

B. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section to the contrary, thirty percent of the funds collected by the city court of Breaux Bridge pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 15:168(B) may be deposited into a special fund created for this purpose. The fund shall be referred to as the Breaux Bridge Indigent Defender Fund.

C. The Breaux Bridge Indigent Defender Fund Board shall manage and oversee funds remitted to the Breaux Bridge Indigent Defender Fund and shall consist of three members residing in the Breaux Bridge City Court district and shall be composed of the following:

(1) One member appointed by the city council of Breaux Bridge.

(2) One member appointed by the St. Martin Parish Council.

(3) One member appointed by the legislative delegation from nominees from the Louis A. Martinet Legal Society.

Added by Acts 1974, No. 647, §1; Acts 1985, No. 959, §1; Acts 2016, No. 638, §1; Acts 2017, No. 99, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1578 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1578
Detention accommodations
Status: in_force

Provisions shall be made for the temporary detention of children in a detention home, to be conducted as an agency of the court or other appropriate public agency; or the court may arrange for the care of such children temporarily in private homes subject to the supervision of the court, or may arrange with any institution or agency to receive for temporary care children within the jurisdiction of the court.

Acts 1950, No. 82, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5003 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5003
Powers of Supreme Court
Status: in_force

The Supreme Court, in the exercise of its original jurisdiction in such cases, may grant all orders and may issue and may cause to be issued all writs, summons, warrants, commissions and all other process that may be necessary to secure a fair hearing and just trial thereof.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2488.57 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2488.57
Collection of fines, forfeitures, penalties and costs
Status: in_force

The city judge, or any officer of the city court designated by the city judge, shall collect all fines, forfeitures, penalties and costs, and all funds so collected, excluding costs, shall be paid into the town treasury of the town of Marksville when the prosecution is on behalf of the town, and into the parish treasury when the prosecution is on behalf of the state or the parish.

Added by Acts 1971, No. 16, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5701 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5701
Election; term of office; bond
Status: in_force

A. In each parish, there shall be a coroner. Except for the parish of Orleans, he shall be elected at the gubernatorial election, shall serve for a term of four years, and shall take office and begin his term on the fourth Monday in March following election. He shall give bond and security according to law in the sum of two thousand dollars for the due performance of the duties of his office.

B. There shall be one coroner for the parish of Orleans who shall be elected at the election for parochial and municipal officers in Orleans Parish, shall serve for a term of four years, and shall take office on the first Monday in May following election. He shall give bond and security according to law in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars for the due performance of the duties of his office.

Amended by Acts 1980, No. 541, §2, eff. July 23, 1980; Acts 1981, No. 122, §3. Acts 1984, No. 570, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:1551 pursuant to Acts 2011, No. 248, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5931 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5931
Criminal justice commission; creation and boundaries
Status: in_force

There is hereby created the Twenty-Seventh Judicial District Criminal Justice Commission, hereafter "commission", for the purpose of providing financing to the offices of the district judges, the district attorney, and the clerk of court for that parish to defray in whole or in part the expenses of such offices pertaining to the criminal justice system. The boundaries of the commission shall include all of St. Landry Parish and the Twenty-Seventh Judicial District, and the commission shall be domiciled in St. Landry Parish.

Acts 1995, No. 511, §1, eff. June 18, 1995; Redesignated from R.S. 33:9012 pursuant to Acts 2011, No. 248, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:123 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 123
Bond
Status: in_force

The clerk shall give bond with good and solvent surety conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, in the sum of ten thousand dollars.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:996.66 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 996.66
Judicial Expense Fund for Twenty-Fifth Judicial District
Status: in_force

A. In addition to all other fees or costs provided by law, the clerk of court of the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District shall collect from every person filing any type of civil suit or proceeding, and who is not otherwise exempted by law from the payment of court costs, a sum to be determined by the judges of the district, sitting en banc, which sum shall not exceed thirty-five dollars, subject to the provisions of Code of Civil Procedure Article 5181 et seq. In all criminal cases over which the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court has jurisdiction, there shall be taxed as costs against every defendant who is convicted after trial or after plea of guilty, or who forfeits his bond, a sum likewise determined but which shall not exceed thirty-five dollars, which shall be in addition to all other fines, costs, or forfeitures lawfully imposed.

B. The clerk of court, sheriff, or any other agency or office authorized to collect such costs shall place all sums collected or received under this Section in a separate account to be designated as the Judicial Expense Fund for the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court. The judges, en banc, of the judicial district shall have control over the fund and all disbursements made therefrom. They shall cause to be conducted annually an audit of the fund and the books and accounts relating thereto and shall file the same with the office of the legislative auditor where it shall be available for public inspection.

C. The judges, en banc, of the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, in addition to salaries otherwise provided, authorized, or established by law, may fix and pay each of their court reporters a salary from the judicial expense fund. The judges, en banc, may appoint such secretarial, clerical, research, administrative, or other personnel as they deem necessary to expedite the business and functions of the court and fix and pay all or any part of the salaries of such personnel out of the monies in the judicial expense fund. In like manner, the judges, en banc, may expend the monies in the judicial expense fund to pay all or any part of the cost of establishing and maintaining a law library for the court or for buying and maintaining any type of equipment, supplies, or other items consistent with or germane to the efficient operation of the court. In general, the judicial expense fund is established and the judges, en banc, may use the judicial expense fund for any purpose or purposes connected with, incidental to, or related to the proper administration or function of the court or the offices of the individual judges, and is in addition to any and all other funds, salaries, expenses, or other monies that are now or hereafter provided, authorized, or established by law for any such purpose.

D. No salary shall be paid from the judicial expense fund for the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District to any judge, except as may be paid for administering the fund and then only after prior legislative approval.

Acts 2009, No. 269, §1; Acts 2017, No. 133, §1.

NOTE: See Acts 2009, No. 269, §2, and the La. Register, 8/20/09, Vol. 35, No. 08, pg. 1828. The Judicial Council approved the cost provided for in this Section.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:62 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 62
Court costs and fees; submission to Judicial Council; recommendation
Status: in_force

A. As used in this Section, the following words have the meanings ascribed to them unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) "Court cost and fee" means a cost or fee paid, or to be paid, by a person to the clerk of court or sheriff, or other law enforcement official responsible for receiving the payment of costs or fees collected as a part of the imposition or execution of a criminal sentence, in connection with the filing or processing of any civil or criminal matter, or the filing or processing of any pleading in any civil or criminal matter or in connection with the imposition or execution of a sentence by a court having criminal jurisdiction, in a court of limited or general jurisdiction.

(2) "Court of limited or general jurisdiction" means district court, family court, juvenile court, city court, parish court, municipal court, and traffic court.

B. No law to provide for a new court cost or fee or to increase an existing court cost or fee shall be enacted unless first submitted to the Judicial Council for review and recommendation to the legislature. Such review and recommendation shall include, but not be limited to, factors such as whether the court cost or fee is reasonably related to the operation of the courts or court system. A copy of the proposal for a new or increased court cost or fee shall be submitted to the Judicial Council no later than October fifteenth of the calendar year before the proposal is intended to be introduced in the legislature, and a copy shall be provided to the legislature, through the clerk of the House of Representatives and the secretary of the Senate, at the time it is submitted to the Judicial Council for review. The Judicial Council shall notify the legislature of its recommendation, through the clerk of the House of Representatives and the secretary of the Senate, by March first of each year.

C. The provisions of this Section shall apply only to court costs or fees, or increases to an existing court cost or fee to be charged or collected by the supreme court, courts of appeal, district courts, city courts, parish courts, juvenile courts, family courts, traffic courts, or municipal courts. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to mayor's courts, magistrate courts, or justice of the peace courts.

Acts 2003, No. 202, §1; Acts 2011, No. 245, §1; Acts 2018, No. 553, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2609 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2609
Territorial jurisdiction; Concordia Parish justice of the peace courts
Status: in_force

Effective January 1, 1997, the territorial limits of the justice of the peace courts in Concordia Parish shall be the same as the parish police jury districts within the parish and the persons elected to the offices of justice of the peace and constable for those courts at the 1996 congressional election shall be elected from those districts. If the police jury district lines are changed thereafter, the territorial jurisdiction of the justice of the peace courts shall also be changed to coincide with the new police jury district lines effective at the beginning of the next regular term of office for justices of the peace and constables. However, in the event that the change in police jury district lines increases or reduces the number of police jury districts, the territorial jurisdiction of the justice of the peace courts shall not be changed but shall remain the same.

Acts 1995, No. 438, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2605 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2605
Territorial jurisdiction; East Carroll Parish
Status: in_force

The territorial jurisdiction of the justice of the peace court in East Carroll Parish shall be the parish boundary.

Acts 1987, No. 141, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1951.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1951.1
Pineville City Court; additional jurisdiction
Status: in_force

In addition to all other jurisdiction now vested in the Pineville City Court, said court shall have territorial jurisdiction over juvenile and civil matters of Ward Eleven of Rapides Parish.

Acts 1991, No. 16, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1143 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1143
Compensation of retired judge
Status: in_force

When a judge of the civil district court retires as authorized by the constitution, he shall receive from the city of New Orleans and from the judicial expense fund two-thirds of the remuneration which he was receiving from these sources immediately prior to his retirement.

Acts 2006, No. 621, §19(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2008, No. 675, §1, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2008, No. 873, §1, eff. July 9, 2008; Acts 2011, No. 340, §2, eff. June 29, 2011; Acts 2012, No. 474, §4(B)(2).
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2562.15 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2562.15
Court reporter
Status: in_force

The judge shall appoint a competent court reporter to take the evidence in any case in which it is necessary to do so under the laws applicable to district courts, unless the parties waive the appointment of the reporter. At the request of any party, the judge shall order the transcription of the testimony of the court reporter. Except in pauper cases, the fees of the court reporter in civil cases shall be charged as costs in the litigation, and shall be paid primarily by the party requesting the transcription. Provided, however, the reporter is not required to file the transcript before payment.

The governing authority of the Parish of Jefferson shall fix and pay the salary of the court reporter.

Acts 1966, No. 5, §15, eff. June 9, 1966, at 1:45 P.M.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5371 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5371
Creation
Status: in_force

The provisions of this Chapter are to create a pilot program in the Twenty-fourth Judicial District Court entitled the Swift and Certain Probation Pilot Program.

Acts 2016, No. 676, §1, eff. June 17, 2016.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:4360 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 4360
Resale if required payment not made; resale if adjudicatee fails to pay balance
Status: in_force

A. If the terms of the sale provide for the full payment of the adjudication price at the moment of the adjudication, or if the terms provide for a deposit, and the purchaser fails to make the full payment or deposit, the seizing creditor may direct the officer conducting the sale either to reoffer the property immediately or to readvertise the property for sale as provided in Subsection D of this Section. If the property is reoffered for sale immediately, the first purchaser is relieved of any liability. This Subsection does not apply to a sale conducted by online auction in accordance with Code of Civil Procedure Article 2344.

B. In the case of a sale conducted by online auction in accordance with Code of Civil Procedure Article 2344, the purchaser shall pay the adjudication price, and the deposit if the terms of the sale provide for a deposit, by 4:30 p.m. on the first day following the sale exclusive of legal holidays as provided in R.S. 1:55(E)(3). If the purchaser fails to do so, the seizing creditor may direct the officer conducting the sale either to adjudicate the property to the bidder who submitted the second highest bid at the online auction, if that bidder is still willing to purchase the property for the amount of his bid, or to readvertise the property for sale as provided in Subsection D of this Section. If the property is adjudicated to the second highest bidder, the first purchaser is relieved of any liability.

C. If the purchaser makes the deposit required by the terms of the sale and fails to pay the entire purchase price within thirty days after the adjudication, on demand of any interested party, the officer conducting the sale shall readvertise the property for sale as provided in Subsection D of this Section.

D.(1) When the property is readvertised, it shall be in the manner required by law for the advertisement of the original sale, and the second sale is at the risk and for the account of the first purchaser. Should there be a loss because of the second sale, the first purchaser is liable for the loss; but should the property bring a higher price at the second sale, the first purchaser has no right to the increase.

(2) The first purchaser shall not bid at a second sale.

Added by Acts 1960, No. 32, §6, eff. Jan. 1, 1961; Acts 2023, No. 390, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1855 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1855
Jurisdiction
Status: in_force

A. A petition under this Part may be filed only in a court that has jurisdiction to make a child-custody determination with respect to the child at issue under the provisions of R.S. 13:1813 through 1816.

B. A court of this state has temporary emergency jurisdiction under the provisions of R.S. 13:1816, if the court finds a credible risk of abduction.

Acts 2007, No. 369, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2487.27 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2487.27
Traffic violations bureau
Status: in_force

The city judge shall establish, under his supervision and as part of the court, a traffic violations bureau and adopt the necessary rules for its operation and administration. For such purposes, the city judge is empowered to appoint one or more clerks who shall be charged with the administration of the bureau and whose compensation shall be paid by the city of Slidell and the police jury of St. Tammany Parish, with their prior approval, in such proportions and amounts as the respective governing authorities may designate.

Acts 1964, No. 102, §27.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:4251.402 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 4251.402
Registration of protective orders
Status: in_force

If a conservator has been appointed in another state and a petition for a protective order is not pending in this state, the conservator appointed in the other state, after giving notice to the appointing court of an intent to register, may register the protective order in this state by filing certified copies of the order and letters of office and of any bond in the mortgage and conveyance records of any parish in which property belonging to the protected person is located.

Acts 2016, No. 333, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5088 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5088
Injunction
Status: in_force

Where a case is presented under R.S. 13:5087, the judge before whom the action is pending, may issue on proper showing by rule, an injunction, without bond, restraining the defendant from continuing such practices until the termination of the suit, or from destroying or concealing its books or records. This remedy shall not be exclusive of such other remedies as may flow from existing laws.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:3479 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 3479
Operation of water craft by non-resident as appointment of secretary of state as agent for service of process
Status: in_force

The operation, navigation or maintenance by a non-resident or non-residents of a boat, ship, barge or other water craft in the state, either in person or through others, and the acceptance thereby by such non-resident or non-residents of the protection of the laws of the state for such water craft, or the operation, navigation or maintenance by a non-resident or non-residents of a boat, ship, barge or other water craft in the state, either in person or through others, other than under the laws of the state, shall be deemed equivalent to an appointment by each such non-resident of the Secretary of State, or his successor in office or some other person in his office during his absence he may designate, to be the true and lawful attorney of each such non-resident for service of process, upon whom may be served all lawful process in any suit, action or proceeding against such non-resident or non-residents growing out of any accident or collision in which such non-resident or non-residents may be involved while, either in person or through others, operating, navigating or maintaining a boat, ship, barge or other water craft in the state; and such acceptance or such operating, navigating or maintaining in the state of such water craft shall be a signification of each such non-resident's agreement that any such process against him which is so served shall be of the same legal force and effect as if served on him personally.

Amended by Acts 1954, No. 137, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1337 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1337
Appellate and supervisory jurisdiction; writs
Status: in_force

A. The Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans shall have appellate jurisdiction of all cases tried before the Municipal Court of New Orleans and the Traffic Court of New Orleans. Appeals from the municipal and traffic courts shall be on the law and the facts and shall be tried upon the records made and the evidence offered in said courts by the judge to whom the appeal shall be allotted. In all cases tried before the judges of the criminal district court in which an appeal does not lie to the supreme court, an appeal shall lie on questions of law and fact to two or more of the judges of the criminal district court, as prescribed by said court. The criminal district court shall adopt rules regulating the manner of taking and hearing and deciding such appeals.

B. The Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans shall have general supervisory jurisdiction over the municipal and traffic courts of New Orleans and shall have authority to issue writs of habeas corpus in criminal cases, as well as such other writs and orders as are necessary in aid of the jurisdiction of the court.

C. The Traffic Court of New Orleans shall have exclusive appellate jurisdiction of all appeals by any person aggrieved by an administrative hearing officer's decision concerning a traffic violation enforced by the city of New Orleans' automated traffic enforcement system. Any aggrieved person shall file such appeal within thirty days after the date of such decision. The traffic court shall have de novo review over such appeals. The traffic court shall adopt rules regulating the manner of taking, hearing, and deciding such appeals.

Added by Acts 1975, No. 144, §1; Acts 2006, No. 621, §19(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2008, No. 675, §1, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2008, No. 873, §1, eff. July 9, 2008; Acts 2011, No. 340, §2, eff. June 29, 2011; Acts 2012, No. 312, §1; Acts 2012, No. 474, §4(B)(2); Acts 2012, No. 497, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5933 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5933
Power to tax; method
Status: in_force

A. The commission, through the board, shall have the power to impose and levy an ad valorem tax on the assessed value of all property appearing on the tax rolls of the parish when approved by a majority of the electors of the parish voting thereon in an election held for that purpose.

B. The election provided for in Subsection A of this Section, shall be called by the commission and shall be held only with another parish-wide election.

C. Any costs of the election shall be financed by the commission, to be paid with funds generated from the tax imposed. However, the district judges, through the judicial expense fund, the district attorney, through any funds available to him including those funds provided pursuant to the Criminal Court Fund provided for in R.S. 15:571.11, and the clerk of court through his general fund may defray all or part of the costs of the election.

D. In addition to the taxes authorized by this Section, the commission, through the board, may levy and collect any other taxes authorized by the Constitution of Louisiana for political subdivisions, including tax upon the sale at retail, the use, lease, or rental, the consumption, and the storage for use or consumption of tangible personal property, and on sales of services as defined by law. This tax shall be levied and collected only after the question of its imposition has been submitted to and approved by a majority of the qualified voters of the district voting at a regularly scheduled election to be conducted in accordance with the Louisiana Election Code. This election shall be called by the commission and shall be held only with another parish wide election. Expenses of this election shall be financed in the same manner as provided for in Subsection C of this Section.

Acts 1995, No. 511, §1, eff. June 18, 1995; Redesignated from R.S. 33:9014 pursuant to Acts 2011, No. 248, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5106 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5106
Limitations
Status: in_force

A. No suit against the state or a state agency or political subdivision shall be instituted in any court other than a Louisiana state court.

B.(1) The total liability of the state and political subdivisions for all damages for personal injury to any one person, including all claims and derivative claims, exclusive of property damages, medical care and related benefits and loss of earnings, and loss of future earnings, as provided in this Section, shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars, regardless of the number of suits filed or claims made for the personal injury to that person.

(2) The total liability of the state and political subdivisions for all damages for wrongful death of any one person, including all claims and derivative claims, exclusive of property damages, medical care and related benefits and loss of earnings or loss of support, and loss of future support, as provided in this Section, shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars, regardless of the number of suits filed or claims made for the wrongful death of that person.

(3)(a) In any suit for personal injury against a political subdivision wherein the court, pursuant to judgment, determines that the claimant is entitled to medical care and related benefits that may be incurred subsequent to judgment, the court shall order that a reversionary trust be established for the benefit of the claimant and that all medical care and related benefits incurred subsequent to judgment be paid pursuant to the reversionary trust instrument. The reversionary trust instrument shall provide that such medical care and related benefits be paid directly to the provider as they are incurred. Nothing in this Paragraph shall be construed to prevent the parties from entering into a settlement or compromise at any time whereby medical care and related benefits shall be provided, but with the requirement of establishing a reversionary trust.

(b) Any funds remaining in a reversionary trust that is created pursuant to Subparagraph (3)(a) of this Subsection shall revert to the political subdivision that established the trust, upon the death of the claimant or upon the termination of the trust as provided in the trust instrument. The trustee may obtain the services of an administrator to assist in the administration of the trust. All costs, fees, taxes, or other charges imposed on the funds in the trust shall be paid by the trust. The trust agreement may impose such other reasonable duties, powers, provisions, and dispute resolution clauses as may be deemed necessary or appropriate. Disputes as to the administration of the trust can be appealed to the district court. Nothing in this Paragraph shall preclude the political subdivision from establishing other alternative funding mechanisms for the exclusive benefit of the claimant. The terms and conditions of the reversionary trust instrument or other alternative funding mechanism, prior to its implementation, must be approved by the court. The parties to the case may present recommendations to the court for the terms and conditions of the trust instrument or other funding mechanism to be included in the order. Upon request of either party, the court shall hold a contradictory hearing before granting a final order implementing the reversionary trust or the alternative funding mechanism.

(c) In any suit for personal injury against the state or a state agency wherein the court pursuant to judgment determines that the claimant is entitled to medical care and related benefits that may be incurred subsequent to judgment, all such medical care and related benefits incurred subsequent to judgment shall be paid from the Future Medical Care Fund as provided in R.S. 39:1533.2. Medical care and related benefits shall be paid directly to the provider as they are incurred. Nothing in this Subparagraph shall be construed to prevent the parties from entering into a settlement or compromise at any time whereby medical care and related benefits shall be provided but with the requirement that they shall be paid in accordance with this Subparagraph.

C. If the state or a state agency or political subdivision is held liable for damages for personal injury or wrongful death, the court shall determine:

(1) The amount of general damages exclusive of:

(a) Medical care.

(b) Related benefits.

(c) Loss of earnings and/or support.

(d) Loss of future earnings and/or support.

(2) The amount of medical care, related benefits and loss of earnings and/or support to date of judgment.

(3) Whether the claimant is in need of future medical care and related benefits and the amount thereof; and

(4) Whether there will be a loss of future earnings or support, and the amounts thereof.

D. (1) "Derivative claims" include but are not limited to claims for survival or loss of consortium.

(2) "Loss of earnings" and "loss of support" for the purpose of this Section means any form of economic loss already sustained by the claimant as a result of the injury or wrongful death which forms the basis of the claim. "Loss of future earnings" and "loss of future support" means any form of economic loss which the claimant will sustain after the trial as a result of the injury or death which forms the basis of the claim.

(3) "Medical care and related benefits" for the purpose of this Section means all reasonable medical, surgical, hospitalization, physical rehabilitation, and custodial services, and includes drugs, prosthetic devices, and other similar materials reasonably necessary in the provision of such services.

(4) "Reversionary trust" means a trust established by a political subdivision for the exclusive benefit of the claimant to pay the medical care and related benefits as they accrue, including without limitation reasonable and necessary amounts for all diagnosis, cure, mitigation, or treatment of any disease or condition from which the injured person suffers as a result of the injuries, and the sequelae thereof, sustained by the claimant on the date the injury was sustained. The trustee shall have the same fiduciary duties as imposed upon a trustee by the Louisiana Trust Code. Nothing herein shall limit the rights of claimants to contract with respect to attorney fees and costs.

E. The legislature finds and states:

(1) That judgments against public entities have exceeded ability to pay on current basis.

(2) That the public fisc is threatened by these judgments to the extent that the general health, safety, and welfare of the citizenry may be threatened.

(3) That the limitations set forth in this Section are needed to curb the trend of governmental liability abuses, to balance an individual's claim against the needs of the public interests and the common good of the whole society, and to avoid overburdening Louisiana's economy and its taxpaying citizens with even more new and/or increased taxes than are already needed for essential programs.

(4) That the purpose of this Section is not to reestablish any immunity based on the status of sovereignty but rather to clarify the substantive content and parameters of application of such legislatively created codal articles and laws and also to assist in the implementation of Article II of the Constitution of Louisiana.

F. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to claims arising under R.S. 40:1237.1 et seq.

Acts 1975, No. 434, §1; Acts 1985, No. 452, §1; Acts 1995, No. 828, §2; Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 63, §1, eff. May 9, 1996; Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 20, §1, eff. July 1, 2000; Acts 2005, No. 1, §1, eff. May 27, 2005; Acts 2010, No. 301, §1; Acts 2018, No. 178, §1.

NOTE: See Acts 2005, No. 1, §§1 and 2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2488.31 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2488.31
Rules of court
Status: in_force

The city court shall be empowered and authorized to make and promulgate rules and regulations governing the hours and days during which the court shall sit for the hearing of civil and criminal cases, and such other rules and regulations as may be necessary or incidental to the proper handling of the business of said court, insofar as said rules and regulations are not in conflict with the express provisions of law. The rules and regulations of the court shall be promulgated by posting in a conspicuous place, on the door of the city courtroom and the door of the office of the city judge, and when so promulgated, shall be in full force and effect.

Acts 1970, No. 424, §11.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2590.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2590.2
Clerk of court appointment in Jefferson Parish
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provision of R.S. 42:63(D), the elected clerk of the court of the parish of Jefferson shall serve as ex officio clerk of court for a consolidated Justice of the Peace Litter Court of Jefferson Parish.

Acts 2001, No. 749, §1, eff. June 25, 2001.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1383 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1383
Sections; court buildings
Status: in_force

There shall be ten separate sections of Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans, designated as Sections A through J. Each shall be presided over by one of the judges. The judges shall hold court in one building to be provided by the city of New Orleans.

Added by Acts 1975, No. 143, §1; Acts 2006, No. 621, §19(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2008, No. 675, §1, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2008, No. 873, §1, eff. July 9, 2008; Acts 2011, No. 340, §2, eff. June 29, 2011; Acts 2012, No. 474, §4(B)(2).
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:3872 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 3872
Qualifications of surety on indemnity bond
Status: in_force

Any resident of the state who is worth over and above all his debts and obligations an amount equal to the sum for which he will obligate himself under the bond, shall be qualified to execute as surety any indemnity bond authorized by R.S. 13:3868.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2103 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2103
Ruston; nonrefundable civil fee, assessment and disposition
Status: in_force

A. Except as otherwise provided by law and subject to the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure Art. 5181 et seq., in addition to any other fees or costs provided by law, the clerk of the City Court of Ruston shall collect from each person filing any civil suit or proceeding, except in the small claims division, a nonrefundable fee not to exceed ten dollars, in an amount determined by the judge.

B. The clerk shall place all funds collected pursuant to this Section in the court general fund to supplement the operational expenses of the court. The expenditure of the funds shall be at the sole discretion of the judge of the court. All funds shall be subject to and included in the court's annual audit. A copy of the audit shall be filed with the legislative auditor who shall make it available for public inspection.

C. The assessment and disposition of any funds pursuant to this Section shall not affect the responsibilities of the city and parish governing authority provided by law for the financing of the City Court of Ruston.

Acts 1987, No. 427, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2488.56 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2488.56
Courtroom and offices
Status: in_force

The expenses of operation and maintenance of the courtroom and offices shall be apportioned equally between the town of Marksville and the parish of Avoyelles.

Added by Acts 1971, No. 16, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:3719 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 3719
Instruments acknowledged before U.S. diplomatic and consular officials admissible in evidence
Status: in_force

All deeds and other acts under private signature heretofore acknowledged before any ambassador, minister, charge d'affaires, secretary of legation, consul general, consul, vice-consul, consul, or a notary public of any one of the states of the union, insular possession, territories of the United States, District of Columbia, or a commissioner for the state of Louisiana in any one of the said states or territories, whether the acknowledgement be signed or not signed by the party making it, or whether the acknowledgement be made in the presence of or out of the presence of witnesses, shall be deemed, taken and accepted as prima facie valid and received in evidence without further proof.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5706 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5706
Fees for coroner's services
Status: in_force

A.(1) The coroner shall receive:

(a) For every investigation, including issuing necessary papers and reports, fifty dollars.

(b) For viewing bodies, fifty dollars.

(c) For the performance of an autopsy, a fee of not less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, at the discretion of the governing authority of the parish or municipality, and the cost of any laboratory tests actually incurred.

(d) For attendance or testimony in any case in court in matters arising from his official duties, seventy-five dollars per day per case.

(e) A fee of fifty dollars for papers issued in each interdiction case or commitment of mental or incompetent case.

(2) The attending or assisting physicians in interdiction or commitment cases shall also receive a fee of fifty dollars.

(3) The coroner shall receive a reasonable fee or compensation, as agreed to by the coroner and the governing authority of the parish or municipality, for any physical or mental examination or investigation when requested by the district attorney, any judge, sheriff, chief of police, or by any responsible citizen or resident when acting in good faith in an emergency and in the furtherance of the public good and safety.

(4) These amounts shall be in addition to any necessary expenses that may be incurred.

(5) The provisions of this Subsection shall only apply to coroners on a fee basis.

(6) Notwithstanding any provision of this Section to the contrary, the affirmative approval of the governing authority of the parish or municipality shall be required for the coroner to charge more than two hundred fifty dollars for the performance of an autopsy. In addition, the affirmative approval of the governing authority of the parish or municipality shall be required for the coroner to charge for any expense, tests, costs, or other fees, when the charge for such expenses, tests, costs, or other fees exceed the maximum charges established in the coroner's annual fee schedule. In such fee schedule, the coroner shall list all fees for which a charge of fifty dollars is authorized by law. Such schedule shall be filed with the governing authority of each affected parish or municipality not later than the last day of January of each year.

B.(1) All necessary or unavoidable expenses, including supplies, incident to the operation and functioning of the coroner's office shall be paid by the parish when such expenses are certified by the coroner as being necessary or unavoidable.

(2) When quarters for the coroner's office or a morgue are established by the parish, the parish shall furnish essential supplies and equipment for the office or morgue.

(3) The parish shall pay the fees for all mental or physical examinations or investigations, commitments, interdictions, court attendance, or testimony and a just fee or remuneration for attending parish prisoners.

C.(1) When a death occurs and the death appears to have been due to natural causes, the coroner of the parish of domicile of the deceased shall be responsible for any investigation into the cause and manner of death and for any examination of the body or autopsy.

(2) When a death occurs and a crime or accident is suspected, the coroner of the parish where the crime or accident occurred shall be responsible for any investigation into the cause and manner of death and for any examination of the body or autopsy.

(3) It shall be the duty of the coroner who makes the final investigation to release the body for burial.

D.(1) The parish or municipality in which the deceased was domiciled, in the case of a death due to natural causes, or the parish or municipality in which the accident or crime occurred, in the case of a death due to other than natural causes, shall pay the coroner's fees and any necessary fees for the investigation and the cost of any autopsy including the cost of transporting the body. However, if the coroner of the parish in which the death occurred initially viewed the body or investigated the death, the fees for such viewing or investigation shall be paid to him by the parish or municipality in which the death occurred.

(2) When a natural death occurs outside the parish of domicile, the coroner of the parish where the death occurs shall forward all information from the initial investigation to the coroner of the parish where the decedent was domiciled. The coroner of the parish of domicile shall complete all the necessary documents, including the death certificate.

(3) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, when a death occurs at any state operated health care or treatment facility, any fee paid by the parish governing authority for the viewing and investigation of a body shall be reimbursed by the state. However, this shall not relieve the parish governing authority of the obligation to promptly pay the fee upon being billed therefor.

E. When a death occurs and the death was due to natural causes, the coroner's fees and expenses, including the cost of transporting the body, shall be paid by the municipality in which the deceased was domiciled or by the parish if the deceased was domiciled in the parish outside of a municipality. When a death occurs and the death was due to other than natural causes, the coroner's fees and expenses including the cost of transporting the body shall be paid by the municipality in which the crime or accident occurred or by the parish if the crime or accident occurred in the parish outside of a municipality.

F. Nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting the payment by the parish or municipality of all necessary or unavoidable expenses certified by the coroner.

G. Payment of fees for coroners' services related to admittance or commitment of patients or residents to any state-operated health care or treatment facility shall be made by a parish immediately upon such admittance or commitment at the option of the coroner rendering such services.

H. Notwithstanding provisions of this Section requiring payments by the parish of fees and expenses for autopsies, when the coroner is responsible for autopsies of six or more persons whose deaths occur within a period of thirty days and during or as the result of a common accident or a disaster, as defined by R.S. 29:704(1), 1 the coroner may apply for payment of such fees and expenses to any federal, state, local, or interjurisdictional agency having disaster relief funds available for expenditure for such purposes, pursuant to R.S. 29:701 et seq. 1 or other law, or, if no such funds are available, to the interim emergency board, pursuant to R.S. 39:461 et seq.

Amended by Acts 1952, No. 151, §2; Acts 1977, No. 52, §1; Acts 1978, No. 429, §1; Acts 1984, No. 570, §1; Acts 1985, No. 241, §1; Acts 1985, No. 614, §1, eff. July 16, 1985; Acts 1986, No. 311, §1; Acts 1987, No. 878, §1; Acts 1988, No. 375, §1; Acts 1990, No. 762, §1; Acts 1991, No. 620, §1; Acts 1992, No. 599, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:1556 pursuant to Acts 2011, No. 248, §3.

1 Repealed by Acts 1993, No. 800, §3, eff. June 22, 1993.

NOTE: See Acts 1991, No. 620, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5108.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5108.3
Defense fees and expenses; payment upon acquittal, dismissal, or favorable judgment; special appropriation
Status: in_force

A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Part, payment or reimbursement of payment of any legal fees and expenses associated with the defense of any official, officer, or employee of this state or the Greater New Orleans Expressway Commission for any criminal action shall not be made except as provided in Subsection B of this Section.

B. Payment or reimbursement for payment of legal fees and expenses for defense of an official, officer, or employee of this state or the Greater New Orleans Expressway Commission shall not be made from public monies from any source unless:

(1) The official, officer, or employee was charged with criminal conduct or made the target of a grand jury investigation due to conduct arising from acts allegedly undertaken in the performance of the duties of his office or employment with the state or the Greater New Orleans Expressway Commission and has been acquitted or the proceedings or investigation have been dismissed or abandoned; and

(2) The Attorney Fee Review Board has reviewed the legal fees and expenses associated with the defense of such official, officer, or employee and has certified to the legislature, in writing, as to the reasonableness of such fees and expenses with respect to accepted legal practice and standards for investigation and trial of matters of such complexity, and that the fees are in accordance with the hourly rates for legal fees for matters of such complexity as established by the board; and

(3) The hourly rate for legal fees paid through the appropriation does not exceed that established by the Attorney Fee Review Board pursuant to R.S. 13:5108.4.

(4) Payment is authorized by a specific act of the legislature appropriating funds for the express purpose of payment or reimbursement for payment of legal fees and expenses associated with the successful defense of the official, officer, or employee.

C. The state shall not be liable for any legal fees submitted for payment or reimbursement for payment which exceed the hourly rates for legal fees established by the Attorney Fee Review Board.

D. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Part, the state may represent, defend, hold harmless and indemnify any officer or employee of the state charged with contempt of court while in the performance of his duties if a determination is made by the department employing the officer or employee that he was acting in the discharge of his duties and within the scope of his employment and that the contempt charge did not result from the intentional wrongful act or gross negligence of the officer or employee.

Acts 1988, No. 450, §1; Acts 2001, No. 208, §1, eff. June 1, 2001; Acts 2006, No. 568, §1, eff. June 23, 2006.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1566 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1566
Orleans Parish juvenile court; salary of judges
Status: in_force

A. There shall be in the parish of Orleans a separate juvenile court, which shall be a court of record and shall be known as the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court. Each judge of said court shall receive the annual salary provided for in R.S. 13:691(A).

B. There is hereby established a continuing judicial fund which shall, pursuant to R.S. 13:1585, consist of fees charged for adoption cases and costs collected in the handling of support matters and traffic matters. The judicial fund shall be administered by the judges of the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court. The judges of the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court may expend it for the improvements and necessities of the court.

Acts 1950, No. 82, §2. Amended by Acts 1952, No. 16, §5; Acts 1954, No. 424, §1; Acts 1956, No. 79, §1; Acts 1957, No. 48, §1; Acts 1962, No. 118, §1; Acts 1966, No. 280, §1; Acts 1969, No. 164, §1; Acts 1974, No. 409, §1. Acts 1975, No. 743, §5, eff. Aug. 1, 1975.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:3666 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 3666
Compensation of expert witnesses; costs of medical reports and copies of hospital records; land surveyors
Status: in_force

A. Witnesses called to testify in court only to an opinion founded on special study or experience in any branch of science, or to make scientific or professional examinations, and to state the results thereof, shall receive additional compensation, to be fixed by the court, with reference to the value of time employed and the degree of learning or skill required.

B. The court shall determine the amount of the fees of said expert witnesses which are to be taxed as costs to be paid by the party cast in judgment either:

(1) From the testimony of the expert relative to his time rendered and the cost of his services adduced upon the trial of the cause, outside the presence of the jury, the court shall determine the amount thereof and include same.

(2) By rule to show cause brought by the party in whose favor a judgment is rendered against the party cast in judgment for the purpose of determining the amount of the expert fees to be paid by the party cast in judgment, which rule upon being made absolute by the trial court shall form a part of the final judgment in the cause.

C. In either manner provided in Subsection B, the court shall also determine and tax as costs, to be paid by the party cast in judgment, the reasonable and necessary cost of medical reports and copies of hospital records.

D. In all civil cases in which the trial court, on its own motion or on motion of a party, has appointed a person who is registered as a professional land surveyor, pursuant to R.S. 37:693(B)(4), to be called as an expert to assist it in the adjudication of any case in which professional land surveying skills may aid the court, the court shall make arrangements for the timely payment of reasonable and customary fees for the services sought to be rendered.

Amended by Acts 1960, No. 114, §1; Acts 1980, No. 618, §1; Acts 1986, No. 207, §1; Acts 1992, No. 369, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2576 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2576
Administrative adjudication of blighted or abandoned property, public health, housing, fire code, environmental, and historic district violations
Status: in_force

A. In any municipality or parish, the failure to pay the liens, privileges, judicial mortgages, and any fines, fees, penalties, or hearing costs imposed pursuant to R.S. 13:2575 shall cause the liens, privileges, judicial mortgages, and any fines, fees, penalties, or hearing costs to be enforceable pursuant to the following provisions, in addition to those provided for in R.S. 13:2575:

(1)(a) The municipality may, immediately after the recordation of the order, judgment, notice of judgment, or lien in the mortgage office of the parish in whose jurisdiction the municipality is located:

(i) Apply to the clerk of the district court for issuance of a writ in accordance with Code of Civil Procedure Article 2253, upon describing with particularity the immovable property and the manner in which the writ is to be enforced, or

(ii) Institute a suit by ordinary proceeding against the owner of record in any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce the order, judgment, notice of judgment, or lien.

(b) All money judgments rendered in favor of the municipality shall recognize the order, judgment, notice of judgment, or lien, which shall have the effect of establishing the ranking in accordance with R.S. 13:2575, and shall be enforced in accordance with all laws relative to the enforcement of such judgments.

(2) The suit shall be tried by preference over all other civil suits both in the lower and appellate courts and shall be prosecuted without costs of court to the municipality. However, the municipality shall, whenever revenue is received from property as provided in this Chapter, pay the court costs out of the first revenue received.

(3) All actions to annul or invalidate sales made hereunder, for any cause whatsoever, and all actions to subject the property to any mortgage which existed before the sale to the purchaser shall be prescribed by the lapse of one year from the date of registry in the conveyance office of the deed to the purchaser.

(4) The municipality may pay out of the proceeds of the sale all costs incurred in enforcement of this Chapter, including the cost and expense of executing and recording the lien, except for deeds and copies of same, which shall be paid for by the purchaser in addition to the price bid for the property.

(5) After payment of costs incurred in the enforcement of this Chapter, the remaining proceeds of any judicial sale shall be credited and applied in satisfaction of all outstanding taxes, charges, assessment liens, mortgages, privileges, and other encumbrances secured by the property in the order of their priority as provided by law.

(6) Any past due and unpaid ad valorem taxes remaining after applying the proceeds of the judicial sale as provided by Paragraph (A)(5) of this Section shall become, be, and remain the personal obligation of the tax debtor.

(7) If property for which tax sale title was acquired and held by a political subdivision pursuant to R.S. 47:2196 is sold pursuant to this Chapter, upon recordation of such sale the property shall no longer be deemed adjudicated property. For purposes of any rights of redemption required pursuant to state law, the redemption period shall be deemed to have commenced on the date of the recordation of the initial adjudication to the political subdivision and not on the date of sale pursuant to this Chapter.

B. The governing body of the municipality may waive the collection or enforcement of any code liens in accordance with procedures established by the municipality in order to serve the public health, safety, and welfare through the financing, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of deteriorated housing.

C. The governing body of the municipality may, by ordinance, establish a dedicated fund into which funds collected in accordance with this Chapter for the satisfaction of liens shall be deposited and from which such funds may be distributed in accordance with procedures established by the municipality in order to serve the public health, safety, and welfare through the financing, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of deteriorated housing.

Added by Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 66, §1, eff. July 7, 1994; Acts 1997, No. 463, §1, eff. June 22, 1997; Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 145, §1; Acts 2001, No. 366, §1; Acts 2004, No. 209, §2, eff. June 14, 2004; Acts 2007, No. 115, §1; Acts 2011, 1 st Ex. Sess., No. 38, §1; Acts 2013, No. 223, §1, eff. June 12, 2013.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5761 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5761
Assessment district; creation; boundaries; and governance
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby created within the parish of Webster, as more specifically provided in Subsection B of this Section, a body politic and corporate which shall be known as the "Coroner's Office Funding District", hereinafter in this Section referred to as the "district". The district shall be a political subdivision of the state as defined in the Constitution of Louisiana and created for the purpose of funding the office of coroner for Webster Parish.

B. The boundaries of the district shall be coterminous with the boundaries of the parish, and the duly elected coroner of the parish or a person acting in that capacity, shall be the governing authority of the district.

Acts 2015, No. 346, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2005.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2005.1
New Iberia
Status: in_force

A. Fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed in criminal prosecutions by the city court of New Iberia for city violations shall be paid into the city treasury of the city of New Iberia; fines, forfeitures and penalties under state statutes shall be paid into the city treasury of the city of New Iberia. Costs assessed in criminal matters by the city court of New Iberia shall be disposed of and used as is provided by R.S. 13:1899.

B. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section to the contrary, thirty percent of the funds collected by the city court of New Iberia pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 15:168(B) may be deposited into a special fund created for this purpose. The fund shall be referred to as the New Iberia Indigent Defender Fund.

C. The New Iberia Indigent Defender Fund Board shall manage and oversee funds remitted to the New Iberia Indigent Defender Fund and shall consist of three members residing in the New Iberia City Court district and shall be composed of the following:

(1) One member appointed by the city council of New Iberia.

(2) One member appointed by the Iberia Parish Council.

(3) One member appointed by the legislative delegation from nominees from the Louis A. Martinet Legal Society.

Added by Acts 1974, No. 365, §3; Acts 2016, No. 638, §1; Acts 2017, No. 99, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1819 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1819
Inconvenient forum
Status: in_force

A. A court of this state which has jurisdiction under this Act to make a child custody determination may decline to exercise its jurisdiction at any time if it determines that it is an inconvenient forum under the circumstances and that a court of another state is a more appropriate forum. The issue of inconvenient forum may be raised upon motion of a party, the court's own motion, or request of another court.

B. Before determining whether it is an inconvenient forum, a court of this state shall consider whether it is appropriate for a court of another state to exercise jurisdiction. For this purpose, the court shall allow the parties to submit information and shall consider all relevant factors, including:

(1) Whether domestic violence has occurred and is likely to continue in the future and which state could best protect the parties and the child.

(2) The length of time the child has resided outside this state.

(3) The distance between the court in this state and the court in the state that would assume jurisdiction.

(4) The relative financial circumstances of the parties.

(5) Any agreement of the parties as to which state should assume jurisdiction.

(6) The nature and location of the evidence required to resolve the pending litigation, including testimony of the child.

(7) The ability of the court of each state to decide the issue expeditiously and the procedures necessary to present the evidence.

(8) The familiarity of the court of each state with the facts and issues in the pending litigation.

C. If a court of this state determines that it is an inconvenient forum and that a court of another state is a more appropriate forum, it shall stay the proceedings upon condition that a child custody proceeding be promptly commenced in another designated state and may impose any other condition the court considers just and proper.

D. A court of this state may decline to exercise its jurisdiction under this Act if a child custody determination is incidental to an action for divorce or another proceeding while still retaining jurisdiction over the divorce or other proceeding.

Acts 2006, No. 822, §1, eff. Aug. 15, 2007.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1145 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1145
Assignment of cases
Status: in_force

All cases, after being filed in the civil district court shall be assigned or allotted, and from time to time may be reassigned or reallotted, among the judges thereof, in accordance with rules adopted by the court.

Acts 2006, No. 621, §19(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2008, No. 675, §1, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2008, No. 873, §1, eff. July 9, 2008; Acts 2011, No. 340, §2, eff. June 29, 2011; Acts 2012, No. 474, §4(B)(2).
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5554.12 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5554.12
Pointe Coupee Parish; payment of group insurance premiums; retired sheriffs and deputy sheriffs; creation of fund
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby created the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff Retired Employees Insurance Fund, hereinafter referred to as the "PCREIF", to help offset the payment by the sheriff's office of Pointe Coupee Parish of the premium costs for eligible retired sheriffs and retired deputy sheriffs as provided in R.S. 13:5554(G).

B. The sheriff of Pointe Coupee Parish may contribute to the PCREIF at his discretion.

C. Upon recommendations of the board established in Subsection F of this Section, the sheriff of Pointe Coupee Parish shall invest at least twenty-five percent in fixed income investments into the PCREIF, provided that at least seventy-five percent is rated as investment grade by a nationally recognized rating agency.

D.(1) The monies deposited pursuant to Subsection B of this Section and the monies invested pursuant to Subsection C of this Section and the accumulated earnings shall be available for the sheriff to withdraw for the purpose of paying the insurance costs, claims, or premiums for retired sheriffs and retired deputy sheriffs of Pointe Coupee Parish, or for legal representation costs for the PCREIF Board.

(2) In the event that the total amount of monies deposited pursuant to Subsection B of this Section and the monies invested pursuant to Subsection C of this Section fall below the sum of two million dollars, no earnings shall be withdrawn, and any balance owed for the payment of insurance premium costs or legal representation costs for the PCREIF Board shall be paid in full from the sheriff's general fund.

E. Any financial audit conducted of the sheriff's office of Pointe Coupee Parish shall specifically address compliance with the provisions of this Section.

F.(1) To provide recommendations concerning the investment of funds as provided in Subsection C of this Section, the sheriff shall establish an investment advisory board consisting of three members as follows:

(a) The sheriff or his designee.

(b) One retired sheriff or retired deputy sheriff of the department, appointed by the sheriff.

(c) One active deputy sheriff of the department, appointed by the sheriff.

(2) The members of the board shall elect a chairperson at its first board meeting, which shall be held within thirty days after the appointment of board members.

(3) The initial term of the investment advisory board shall begin July 1, 2023, and shall end June 30, 2024, and the terms thereafter shall be for four-year terms to run contemporaneous with the sheriff's term.

G.(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section, and in accordance with R.S. 13:5554(T), in order for any sheriff, deputy sheriff, or other employee to be eligible to qualify for payment from the PCREIF, he must have completed the requisite years of service required and retired directly from either the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office, the Sheriffs' Pension and Relief Fund, or the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of any Subsection contained in this Section, and in accordance with R.S. 13:5554(G)(10)(a), the sheriff of Pointe Coupee Parish may utilize the PCREIF to help offset the premium costs of group hospital, surgical, medical expense, and dental insurance and the life insurance premium costs for coverage in the amount of one and one-half times the salary at time of retirement for any sheriff or deputy sheriff hired prior to July 1, 2019, with at least fifteen years of service who is at least fifty-five years of age or retired with at least thirty years of service at any age.

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of any Subsection contained in this Section, and in accordance with R.S. 13:5554(G)(10)(b), the sheriff of Pointe Coupee Parish may utilize the PCREIF to help offset the premium costs of group hospital, surgical, medical expense, and dental insurance and the life insurance premium costs for coverage in the amount of one and one-half times the salary at time of retirement for any sheriff or full-time deputy sheriff hired on and after July 1, 2019, who retires directly from active service with the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office and who meets the criteria in all of the following:

(a) Is entitled to receive benefits from the Sheriffs' Pension and Relief Fund.

(b) Has at least fifteen years of full-time service with the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office.

(c) Is at least fifty-five years of age.

Acts 2023, No. 144, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 3
Seals for clerks of Supreme Court and Orleans parish courts; Orleans Parish Juvenile Court
Status: in_force

The clerks of the Supreme Court and the several courts in the parish of Orleans each shall have a seal containing the vignette of the state seal and designating the court for which the seal is to be used, with which all documents requiring a seal issued from these courts shall be sealed, provided that the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court may prepare and use its own special seal, which shall contain thereon at its top the name "Orleans Parish Juvenile Court" with the words "State of Louisiana" across its middle, and at the bottom the court's motto, "Justice through Understanding." Embossed under the court's name shall be the scales of justice supported by the Louisiana Pelican with its young (now contained in the vignette of the present state seal) and enclosed within a crescent symbolical of New Orleans the year "1908" commemorating the court's creation. The clerk of the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court shall be the keeper of such seal and shall affix this official court seal to all official acts and documents necessitating a seal.

Amended by Acts 1962, No. 117, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1874 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1874
Compensation of judges in general
Status: in_force

A.(1) Except as otherwise provided in R.S. 13:1875, city court judges shall receive an annual salary payable monthly in equal proportions by the respective municipalities and parishes where the courts are located, as follows:

(a) Those in which the population for the territorial jurisdiction of the court is less than ten thousand shall be paid a minimum salary of three thousand six hundred dollars.

(b) Those in which the population of the territorial jurisdiction of the court is ten thousand or more but less than twenty thousand shall be paid a minimum salary of four thousand eight hundred dollars.

(c) Those in which the population of the territorial jurisdiction of the court is twenty thousand or more but less than forty thousand shall be paid a minimum salary of six thousand dollars.

(d) Those in which the population of the territorial jurisdiction of the court is forty thousand or more but less than one hundred thousand shall be paid a minimum salary of seven thousand two hundred dollars.

(e) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, the judge of the City Court of Hammond shall be paid a minimum salary in an amount equal to the salary which he was receiving on August 30, 1986.

(f) The judge of the City Court of Morgan City shall receive a salary of thirty-six thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly on his own warrant. Said salary shall be paid by the governing authorities of the city of Morgan City and the parish of St. Mary in the proportion which the population of the city of Morgan City within Ward 6 of St. Mary Parish and the population of the unincorporated portions of Ward 6 of St. Mary Parish bear to the total population of Ward 6 of St. Mary Parish as determined and adjusted from time to time by the decennial United States census. In addition he shall receive, in civil cases, the same fees as clerks of district courts. He shall receive no fees in criminal matters, including peace bond cases.

(2) In addition to these salaries, they shall also receive the same fees as are payable to justices of the peace in all civil cases where the amount involved does not exceed one hundred dollars, exclusive of interest, and the same fees as are payable to clerks of district courts in all other civil cases. They shall not receive any fees in criminal matters, including peace bond cases.

(3) The term "salary" as used in this Subsection shall have the same meaning as the term "salary" in R.S. 13:1874.1(C).

B. City court judges where the population of the territorial jurisdiction of the court is 100,000 or more shall receive the same salary as the district court judge of the parish wherein the city court is located, the whole of which shall be paid by the city, and in such cases, the fees collected by the clerk of the city court in all civil cases shall be paid into the general fund of the city.

C. In all cases, the city and the parish, or either of them, may pay to the judges of their respective courts any additional salary that they may deem proper.

D. The salaries paid to city judges under this section shall not be decreased during their terms of office.

E. In addition to the compensation and fees payable to the city court judges in this state under the provisions of this Section and R.S. 13:1875, each city court judge shall receive an annual salary of twenty-three thousand seven hundred sixty dollars, payable by the state and payable monthly on his own warrant. Judges of the Traffic Court of New Orleans shall receive an annual salary of twenty-three thousand seven hundred sixty dollars payable by the state and payable monthly on the warrant of each. Judges of the Municipal Court of New Orleans shall receive an annual salary of twenty-three thousand seven hundred sixty dollars payable by the state and payable monthly on the warrant of each. The salaries paid to city court judges by the governing authorities of the several parishes and municipalities as of April 21, 1975, pursuant to R.S. 13:1875 or any other law authorizing the payment of salaries to city court judges by parishes or municipalities, or both, or any motion, ordinance, or resolution enacted or adopted pursuant thereto, shall be construed as the minimum salaries payable by such parishes and municipalities to the respective city court judges.

F. Part or all of that portion of a city court judge's salary which is payable by the parish, may be paid from surplus funds of the criminal court fund of the judicial district in which the parish is located, after such surplus funds have been transferred to the parish general fund.

Acts 1960, No. 32, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 1961; Acts 1965, No. 132, §1; Acts 1967, No. 17, §1; Acts 1968, No. 327, §1; Acts 1975, No. 152, §1; Acts 1975, No. 742, §1, eff. July 1, 1975; Acts 1975, No. 825, §1, eff. July 1, 1975; Acts 1977, No. 352, §1; Acts 1979, No. 236, §2, eff. Sept. 1, 1979; Acts 1980, No. 169, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 1980; Acts 1981, No. 636, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981; Acts 1986, No. 408, §1; Acts 1990, No. 271, §1, eff. July 1, 1990; Acts 1995, No. 526, §1.

{{NOTE: SEE ACTS 1990, NO. 271, §2, FOR PAY RAISE IMPLEMENTATION PROVISIONS.}}
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1401 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1401
Family court for the parish of East Baton Rouge; establishment; jurisdiction
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby established the family court for the parish of East Baton Rouge, which shall be a court of record with exclusive jurisdiction in the following proceedings:

(1) All actions for divorce, annulment of marriages, claims for contributions made by one spouse to the education or training of the other spouse, establishment or disavowal of the paternity of children, spousal and child support and nonsupport, and custody and visitation of children, as well as of all matters incidental to any of the foregoing proceedings, including but not restricted to the issuance of conservatory writs for the protection of community property, the awarding of attorney fees in judgments of divorce, the cumulation of and rendering executory of spousal and child support, the issuance of writs of fieri facias and garnishment under judgments of the court for spousal and child support and attorney fees, jurisdiction of which was vested in the Nineteenth Judicial District Court for the parish of East Baton Rouge prior to the establishment of the family court for the parish of East Baton Rouge.

(2)(a) All actions between spouses or former spouses for partition of community property and property acquired pursuant to a matrimonial regime.

(b) All actions for the termination or modification of a matrimonial regime.

(c) All actions for the settlement and enforcement of claims arising from matrimonial regimes or the establishment thereof.

(d) All actions between former spouses seeking the enforcement of a judicial or contractual settlement of claims provided in this Subsection.

(3) All proceedings for writs of habeas corpus for the determination and enforcement of rights to the custody of minors or for the release of any person in actual custody in any case of which the family court has original jurisdiction.

B. The family court for the parish of East Baton Rouge has all such additional jurisdiction, power, and authority now or hereafter provided by law.

Acts 1990, No. 158, §1, eff. July 1, 1990; Acts 1990, No. 1008, §5, eff. Jan. 1, 1991; Acts 1990, No. 1009, §8, eff. Jan. 1, 1991; Acts 1993, No. 485, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1997; Acts 1999, No. 533, §1; Acts 2010, No. 754, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2011.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:4343 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 4343
Property in two or more parishes; place of sale and advertisement
Status: in_force

In all judicial sales, where the property to be sold is situated in two or more parishes, such property may be sold in the respective parishes where it is situated, or all of such property may be sold in the parish wherein the order of sale issues. In either event the property shall be advertised for sale in the parishes where situated.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1824 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1824
Enforcement under Hague Convention
Status: in_force

Under this Subpart a court of this state may enforce an order for the return of the child made under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction as if it were a child custody determination.

Acts 2006, No. 822, §1, eff. Aug. 15, 2007.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:5833 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 5833
Acceptance of bond without referring matter to court
Status: in_force

Either constable may accept the surety without referring the matter to the court, in which case the laws in reference to the assignment of the bond, its return into court, and proceedings to impose liability on the constable shall apply.

Added by Acts 1978, No. 461, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1979; Redesignated from R.S. 33:1743 pursuant to Acts 2011, No. 248, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:1834 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 1834
Costs, fees, and expenses
Status: in_force

A. The court shall award the prevailing party, including a state, necessary and reasonable expenses incurred by or on behalf of the party, including costs, communication expenses, attorney fees, investigative fees, expenses for witnesses, travel expenses, and child care during the course of the proceedings, unless the party from whom fees or expenses are sought establishes that the award would be clearly inappropriate.

B. The court may not assess fees, costs, or expenses against a state unless authorized by law other than this Act.

Acts 2006, No. 822, §1, eff. Aug. 15, 2007.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:695 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 695
Traveling and hotel expenses to be paid from the state general fund
Status: in_force

Prior to the payment of all or any part of the expenses for which reimbursement is provided in R.S. 13:694, each judge shall file a written itemized statement of his actual traveling and hotel expenses with the judicial administrator. The allowance payable to the judge shall be equivalent to those expenses which have been actually incurred and which have been approved by the judicial administrator, and shall be payable monthly from the state general fund, on each judge's own warrant. The warrant shall be accompanied by the judicial administrator's written certification approving such expenses.

Amended by Acts 1956, No. 35, §1; Acts 1975, No. 743, §3, eff. Aug. 1, 1975.
La. Rev. Stat. § 13:2583.5 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 13 / Section 2583.5
Deputies; oath; compensation; Calcasieu Parish
Status: in_force

A. Each duly elected constable of a justice of the peace court in Calcasieu Parish may appoint one deputy constable, if necessary, for whose acts the constable shall be responsible. Before entering upon his duties, each deputy shall take the oath required by the constitution and the laws of this state and meet the requirements of R.S. 40:2402 through 2406. A duplicate copy of the oath of office shall be filed with the office of the attorney general within seventy-two hours after being administered. Any deputy constable appointed pursuant to this Section shall not be entitled to any compensation from any local governing body or political subdivision, other than the constable's office, and shall not be entitled to any compensation from the state. Each constable may fix the compensation of his deputy. He may pay from the fees generated by his office any compensation due the deputy, the premiums on bonds required by him of a deputy in charge of public funds, insurance premiums, and any expenses necessary for the performance of duties required of the deputy. He may issue monthly or twice per month, at his discretion, to the deputy warrants or checks for the amounts due him.

B. Each deputy constable authorized by this Section shall have the same qualifications and training as required by law for a constable of a justice of the peace court. The deputy constable need not be a resident of the ward from which the constable is elected, but he must be a resident of Calcasieu Parish.

C. The provisions of this Section shall have no effect on nor limit the authority of a justice of the peace to appoint a special deputy constable pursuant to R.S. 13:3477.

Acts 2012, No. 305, §1; Acts 2014, No. 381, §1.