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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE BILL NO. 1017
BY REPRESENTATIVE WADDELL
COURTS/JUSTICE OF PEACE: Provides with respect to concurrent jurisdiction of justice
of the peace courts and city courts
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 13:1952(21)(c), relative to concurrent jurisdiction of the City2
Court of Shreveport and justice of the peace courts in Caddo Parish and Bossier3
Parish; to provide that as the corporation limits of Shreveport are extended, the4
justice of the peace courts jurisdiction is concurrent with the City Court of5
Shreveport in incorporated areas; and to provide for related matters.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. R.S. 13:1952(21)(c) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:8
ยง1952. Courts created by special legislative Act9
The following city courts, heretofore created and established by special10
legislative Act, are hereby recognized and continued in existence and, except as11
otherwise provided in this Section, their territorial jurisdiction shall extend through12
the city and ward or wards wherein the city in which they are domiciled is located,13
as extended from time to time:14
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(21)16
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(c) The territorial jurisdiction of the court shall extend over all territory18
within Caddo Parish which is now or hereafter included within the corporate limits19
of the city of Shreveport and throughout the fourth ward of Caddo Parish. In20 HLS 10RS-1467 ORIGINAL
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addition to all other jurisdiction vested in the court, it shall have criminal1
jurisdiction, as conferred by Article VII, Section 51 of the Louisiana Constitution of2
1921 and Article XIV, Section 16(A)(5) of the Constitution of Louisiana of 1974, of3
all those portions of Bossier Parish now or hereafter included within the corporate4
limits of the city of Shreveport. Wherever the corporate limits of the city of5
Shreveport extend, or hereafter extend, into a justice of the peace ward, the city court6
shall have concurrent jurisdiction within that portion of the justice of the peace ward7
included within the corporate limits concurrent with that of the justice of the peace;8
in those cases in which the justice of the peace would have jurisdiction, and that9
portion of the justice of the peace ward not included within the corporate limits shall10
remain under the jurisdiction of the justice of the peace.11
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Waddell HB No. 1017
Abstract: Provides for concurrent jurisdiction between the city court and the justice of the
peace court wherever the corporate limits of the city of Shreveport are extended into
a justice of the peace ward.
Present law provides that the territorial jurisdiction of the City Court of Shreveport shall
extend over all territory within Caddo Parish which is now or hereafter included within the
corporate limits of the city of Shreveport and throughout the fourth ward of Caddo Parish
and criminal jurisdiction in those portions of Bossier Parish now or hereafter included within
the corporate limits of the city of Shreveport.
Present law provides that wherever the corporate limits of the city of Shreveport are
extended into a justice of the peace ward, the city court shall have jurisdiction within that
portion of the justice of the peace ward included within the corporate limits concurrent with
that of the justice of the peace in those cases in which the justice of the peace would have
jurisdiction, and that portion of the justice of the peace ward not included within the
corporate limits shall remain under the jurisdiction of the justice of the peace.
Proposed law provides that wherever the corporate limits of the city of Shreveport are
extended into a justice of the peace ward, the city court shall have concurrent jurisdiction
with the justice of the peace court within that portion of the justice of the peace ward
included within the corporate limits.
(Amends R.S. 13:1952(21)(c))