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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 621
BY SENATOR MURRAY
CIVIL PROCEDURE. To provide relative to the Municipal Court of New Orleans. (8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 13:2497 and 2500.2(A)(1), to provide relative to courts and2
judicial procedures; to provide relative to the Municipal Court of New Orleans; to3
provide relative to certain court fees and salaries; to remove reference to specific4
dollar amounts of salaries for certain deputy clerks of the Municipal Court of New5
Orleans; to provide for an increase in certain fees collected by the Municipal Court6
of New Orleans; and to provide for related matters.7
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:8
Section 1. R.S. 13:2497 and 2500.2(A)(1) are hereby amended and reenacted to read9
as follows:10
§2497. Deputy clerks; appointment; salaries; removal 11
The clerk of the municipal court of New Orleans shall appoint such deputies,12
assistants and employees as the legislature may provide. There shall not be less than13
twenty deputy clerks and other employees of the court, and their salaries and manner14
of appointment and removal shall be as hereinafter designated.15
The following named deputy clerks of the municipal court of New Orleans16
shall be appointed by the chief clerk of the court, who may remove any of them at17 SB NO. 621
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any time, and their salaries are hereby fixed as follows: one chief deputy clerk at a1
monthly salary of three hundred dollars; four criers at a monthly salary of one2
hundred seventy-five dollars each; one deputy clerk, known as a bond clerk, at a3
monthly salary of one hundred seventy-five dollars; two deputy clerks, known as4
capias clerks, at a monthly salary of one hundred seventy-five dollars each; three5
deputy clerks, known as docket clerks, at a monthly salary of one hundred6
seventy-five dollars each; one deputy clerk, who shall do the stenographic work of7
the clerk's office, at a monthly salary of one hundred seventy-five dollars; one deputy8
clerk, known as cashier, at a monthly salary of one hundred seventy-five dollars; one9
deputy clerk, known as dock man in charge of the prisoners, at a monthly salary of10
one hundred seventy-five dollars; one deputy clerk, known as parole clerk, at a11
monthly salary of one hundred seventy-five dollars.12
All salaries of the clerks and deputy clerks of the municipal court of New13
Orleans shall be paid by the city of New Orleans.14
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§2500.2. Additional court costs to defray expenses16
A.(1) In all cases over which the Municipal Court of New Orleans has17
jurisdiction, there shall be taxed assessed as costs against every defendant who is18
convicted after trial or after he pleads guilty or who forfeits his bond a nonrefundable19
sum of fifteen thirty dollars, which shall be in addition to all other fines, costs, or20
forfeitures lawfully imposed.21
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Julie J. Baxter.
DIGEST
Murray (SB 621)
Present law provides relative to Municipal Court of New Orleans. Specifies position titles
and monthly salaries of various deputy clerks in the Municipal Court of New Orleans.
Proposed law removes references to specific salaries and retains present law requiring that
there shall not be less than 20 deputy clerks and other employees of the Municipal Court of
New Orleans, and that all salaries of the clerks and deputy clerks of the Municipal Court of
New Orleans shall be paid by the city of New Orleans. SB NO. 621
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Present law provides that in Municipal Court of New Orleans cases in which a defendant is
convicted after trial or after he pleads guilty or who forfeits his bond, the Municipal Court
of New Orleans shall tax as costs a nonrefundable sum of $15, which shall be in addition to
all other fines, costs or forfeitures lawfully imposed.
Proposed law provides that in cases of their jurisdiction, the Municipal Court of New
Orleans shall assess costs against defendant convicted after trial or after he pleads guilty or
who forfeits his bond.
Proposed law increases the sum the defendant shall pay from $15 to $30.
Effective August 1, 2012.
(Amends R.S. 13:2497 and 2500.2(A)(1))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Judiciary A to the
original bill.
1. Deleted proposed language which would have repealed the authorization for
the Municipal and Traffic Courts of New Orleans to impose bail bond fees.
Senate Floor Amendments to engrossed bill
1. Changed references to amount the court requires a defendant to pay to defray
expenses from "taxed" to "assessed".