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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 260
BY SENATOR NEVERS
CLERKS OF COURT. Provides for an automobile allowance for the clerk of the district
court in Washington Parish. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 13:783(D)(7), relative to certain Washington Parish elected2
officials; to provide an automobile expense allowance for the clerk of the district3
court; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 13:783(D)(7) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:6
ยง783. Expenses of clerk's office7
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(7) In Acadia Parish, and Iberia Parish, and Washington Parish, the clerks11
of the district courts of those parishes may receive an automobile expense allowance12
equal to fifteen percent of their annual salary provided the clerk of court maintains13
three hundred thousand dollars of automobile insurance per accident for bodily14
injury and one hundred thousand dollars of automobile insurance per accident for15
property damage. The expense allowance shall come from surplus funds in each of16
the offices of the clerks of court and at no additional expense to the state or local17 SB NO. 260
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governing authority.1
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by James Benton.
DIGEST
Nevers (SB 260)
Present law provides that in Acadia Parish and Iberia Parish, the clerks of the district courts
of those parishes may receive an automobile expense allowance equal to 15% 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.
Proposed law retains present law and adds Washington Parish to the list of parishes which
may receive an automobile expense allowance.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Amends R.S. 13:783(D)(7))