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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 46
BY SENATOR APPEL
CIVIL PROCEDURE. Provides relative to motions for a new trial in parish and city courts.
(8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact Code of Civil Procedure Art. 4907(B), relative to procedure in parish2
and city courts; to provide relative to the delay for applying for a new trial; and to3
provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. Code of Civil Procedure Art. 4907(B) is hereby amended and reenacted6
to read as follows: 7
Art. 4907. New trials; delay in parish or city courts 8
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B. The delay for applying for a new trial shall be three seven days, exclusive10
of holidays. Where notice of judgment is required, this delay commences to run on11
the day after the clerk has mailed, or the sheriff has served, the notice of judgment.12
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Camille Sebastien Perry.
DIGEST
Present law provides for a three-day delay for applying for a new trial, exclusive of holidays,
commencing to run the day after the clerk has mailed, or the sheriff has served the notice of
judgment when such notice is required. SB NO. 46
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Proposed law increases the delay for applying for a new trial from three to seven.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Amends C.C.P. Art. 4907(B))