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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 574
BY SENATOR CLAITOR
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. Authorizes expungement of certain traffic offenses. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact the introductory paragraph of R.S. 44:9(A)(1), relative to records of2
violations of traffic ordinances; to provide for expungement of the traffic records;3
to provide for certain circumstances; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 44:9(A)(1) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 6
ยง9. Records of violations of traffic or municipal ordinances and of state statutes7
classified as a misdemeanor or felony8
A.(1) Any person who has been arrested for the violation of a municipal or9
parish ordinance or for violation of a state statute which is classified as a10
misdemeanor or any person who has had their conviction set aside and dismissed11
pursuant to C.Cr.P. Art. 892.1(C) may make a written motion to the district,12
parish, or city court in which the violation was prosecuted or to the district court13
located in the parish in which he was arrested, for expungement of the arrest record,14
under either of the following conditions:15
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Michael Bell.
DIGEST
Present law provides that any person who has been arrested for the violation of a municipal
or parish ordinance or for violation of a state statute which is classified as a misdemeanor
may make a written motion to the district, parish, or city court in which the violation was
prosecuted or to the district court located in the parish in which he was arrested, for
expungement of the arrest record under certain circumstances.
Proposed law retains present law and provides for persons convicted of a misdemeanor to
traffic offense may make a written motion to the district, parish, or city court in which the
violation was prosecuted or to the district court located in the parish in which he was arrested
for expungement of the record under certain circumstances.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Amends R.S. 44:9(A)(1)(intro. para.))