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SENATE BILL NO. 621
BY SENATOR MURRAY
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
A. The clerk of the municipal court of New Orleans shall appoint such12
deputies, assistants and employees as the legislature may provide. There shall not13
be less than twenty deputy clerks and other employees of the court, and their salaries14
and manner 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
any time, and their salaries are hereby fixed as follows: one chief deputy clerk at a18
monthly salary of three hundred dollars; four criers at a monthly salary of one19
hundred seventy-five dollars each; one deputy clerk, known as a bond clerk, at a20
monthly salary of one hundred seventy-five dollars; two deputy clerks, known as21
capias clerks, at a monthly salary of one hundred seventy-five dollars each; three22
deputy clerks, known as docket clerks, at a monthly salary of one hundred23
seventy-five dollars each; one deputy clerk, who shall do the stenographic work of24
the clerk's office, at a monthly salary of one hundred seventy-five dollars; one deputy25
clerk, known as cashier, at a monthly salary of one hundred seventy-five dollars; one26
deputy clerk, known as dock man in charge of the prisoners, at a monthly salary of27
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one hundred seventy-five dollars; one deputy clerk, known as parole clerk, at a1
monthly salary of one hundred seventy-five dollars.2
B. All salaries of the clerks and deputy clerks of the municipal court of New3
Orleans shall be paid by the city of New Orleans.4
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§2500.2. Additional court costs to defray expenses6
A.(1) In all cases over which the Municipal Court of New Orleans has7
jurisdiction, there shall be taxed assessed as costs against every defendant who is8
convicted after trial or after he pleads guilty or who forfeits his bond a nonrefundable9
sum of fifteen thirty dollars, which shall be in addition to all other fines, costs, or10
forfeitures lawfully imposed.11
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PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED: