Mack (HB 1130) Act No. 672
Prior law required 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 was 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 was on behalf of the state or parish.
New law retains prior 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.
Effective Aug. 1, 2014.
(Amends R.S. 13:1898(A))