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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 324
BY SENATOR PERRY
COURTS. Provides an automobile expense allowance for the Vermilion Parish Clerk of
Court. (8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 13:783(D)(7), relative to the clerk of court of Vermilion Parish;2
to provide for an automobile expense allowance for the clerk of court of Vermilion3
Parish; 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, Iberia Parish, Red River Parish, St. Tammany Parish,11
Tangipahoa Parish, Vermilion Parish, and Washington Parish the clerks of the12
district courts of those parishes may receive an automobile expense allowance equal13
to fifteen percent of their annual salary provided the clerk of court maintains three14
hundred thousand dollars of automobile insurance per accident for bodily injury and15
one hundred thousand dollars of automobile insurance per accident for property16
damage. The expense allowance shall come from surplus funds in each of the offices17 SB NO. 324
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of the clerks of court and at no additional expense to the state or local governing1
authority.2
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Alden A. Clement, Jr.
DIGEST
Present law provides that in Acadia Parish, Iberia Parish, Red River Parish, St. Tammany
Parish, Tangipahoa Parish, and Washington Parish, the clerks of the district courts of those
parishes may receive an automobile expense allowance equal to 15% of their annual salary,
provided that the clerk of court maintains $300,000 of automobile insurance per accident for
bodily injury and $100,000 of automobile insurance per accident for property damage.
Present law further provides that the expense allowance is to 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 the Vermilion Parish Clerk of Court to the list of
clerks of court who are allowed to receive an automobile expense allowance.
Effective August 1, 2012.
(Amends R.S. 13:783(D)(7))