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Regular Session, 2012 ENROLLED
SENATE BILL NO. 71
BY SENATOR MARTINY
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 40:2266.3, relative to criminalistics laboratories operated by2
sheriffs; to exempt the criminalistics laboratory operated by the sheriff of Jefferson3
Parish from certain requirements; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 40:2266.3 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 6
ยง2266.3. Criminalistics laboratories operated by sheriffs of Calcasieu, Jefferson,7
and St. Tammany parishes included herein8
The criminalistics laboratories presently operated by the sheriff of Calcasieu9
Parish for Vernon, Allen, Beauregard, Jefferson Davis, Cameron, and Calcasieu10
parishes, by the sheriff of Jefferson Parish, and by the sheriff of St. Tammany Parish11
are hereby authorized to operate within the terms and provisions of Chapter 13-B of12
this Title, as may be applicable, and to receive the benefits therein established, as13
fully as though said the laboratories were in fact operated by legislatively created14
and authorized criminalistics laboratory commissions; however, except for the15
criminalistics laboratory operated by the sheriff of Jefferson Parish, said those16
sheriff's laboratories shall be required to provide criminalistics laboratory services17
for such nearby surrounding parishes as may elect, upon the terms provided above,18
to participate in said the laboratories, within limitations as are reasonably developed19
by legislatively created criminalistics laboratory commissions, until such time as said20
the laboratories may become operated by legislatively created criminalistics21
ACT No. 619 SB NO. 71 ENROLLED
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laboratory commissions. The criminalistics laboratory operated by the sheriff of1
Calcasieu Parish shall be named and known as the Southwest Louisiana2
Criminalistics Laboratory.3
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED: