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Regular Session, 2013 ENROLLED
SENATE BILL NO. 124
BY SENATOR MURRAY
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 13:1377(A) and 1381.4(A)(2), relative to courts and judicial2
procedure; to provide relative to the Criminal District Court for the Parish of3
Orleans; to provide relative to the imposition of certain fees and court costs; to4
increase certain amounts; and to provide for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 13:1377(A) and 1381.4(A)(2) are hereby amended and reenacted to7
read as follows:8
§1377. Court costs and clerk's fees9
A. Any defendant, other than an indigent, who pleads guilty or is convicted10
of an offense by the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans shall be11
assessed costs of court not to exceed the sum of twenty-five one hundred dollars,12
such costs to be in addition to any fine, clerk's fees or sentence imposed by the court.13
When any defendant, other than an indigent, fails to pay the costs referred to14
hereinabove, he shall be sentenced to a term of thirty days in the parish prison in15
default of the payment of same.16
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§1381.4. Judicial expense fund for Criminal District Court19
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(2) In addition to all other fines, costs, or forfeitures lawfully imposed by this21
Section or any other provision, the court may impose an additional cost against any22
defendant who has been finally convicted of a misdemeanor, excluding traffic23
violations, or a felony. The additional costs authorized in this Paragraph shall not24
exceed two hundred fifty five hundred dollars in the case of a misdemeanor nor25
exceed two thousand five hundred dollars in the case of a felony. All such sums26 SB NO. 124 ENROLLED
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collected shall be transmitted to the judicial administrator for further disposition in1
accordance herewith.2
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Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not4
signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature5
by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If6
vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become7
effective on the day following such approval.8
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED: