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Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE BILL NO. 1130
BY REPRESENTATIVE MACK
COURTS/CITY: Provides with respect to the collection and disposition of fines, forfeitures,
penalties, and costs in city court
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 13:1898(A), relative to the collection of fines in city courts; to2
authorize municipal governing authorities to contract with private collection agencies3
for purposes of collecting debt; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 13:1898(A) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 6
ยง1898. Collection and disposition of fines, forfeitures, penalties, and costs in city7
court8
A. Except as otherwise provided by special law and in Subsection B thereof,9
the clerk of the city court or the marshal, as designated by the judge, or a private10
collection agency as authorized by contract with the municipal governing authority,11
shall collect all fines, forfeitures, penalties, and costs, and all funds so collected by12
them, excluding costs, shall be paid into the city treasury when the prosecution is on13
behalf of the city and into the parish treasury to be deposited in the parish general14
fund and used as a general expenditure of said the parish, in parishes other than15
Orleans, when the prosecution is on behalf of the state or parish. The amount of the16
debt shall not be reduced if collected by a private collection agency.17
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HB NO. 1130
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Mack HB No. 1130
Abstract: Authorizes municipal governing authorities to contract with private collection
agencies for purposes of collecting debt.
Present law requires the clerk of each city court or the marshal, as designated by the judge,
to collect all fines, forfeitures, penalties, and costs, excluding costs to be paid into the city
treasury when the prosecution is on behalf of the city and into the parish treasury to be
deposited in the parish general fund and used as a general expenditure of the parish, in
parishes other than Orleans, when the prosecution is on behalf of the state or parish.
Proposed law retains present law and adds authorization for a municipal governing authority
to contract with a private collection agency for purposes of collecting fines, forfeitures,
penalties, and costs.
(Amends R.S. 13:1898(A))