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Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE BILL NO. 843
BY REPRESENTATIVE MILLER
CRIMINAL/ARREST WARRANT: Prohibits a justice of the peace from issuing an arrest
warrant for persons who commit felonies
AN ACT1
To enact Code of Criminal Procedure Article 202(B)(3), relative to justices of the peace; to2
provide relative to the issuance of arrest warrants by justices of the peace; to prohibit3
a justice of the peace from issuing a warrant of arrest of a person for the commission4
of a felony offense; and to provide for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. Code of Criminal Procedure Article 202(B)(3) is hereby enacted to read7
as follows: 8
Art. 202. Warrant of arrest; issuance9
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B.11
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(3) A justice of the peace shall not have the authority to issue a warrant for13
the arrest of any person for the commission of a felony.14
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HB NO. 843
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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)]
Miller HB No. 843
Abstract: Prohibits a justice of the peace from issuing a warrant for the arrest of a person
for the commission of a felony.
Present law authorizes a justice of the peace to issue certain warrants for arrest if he has
received a certificate of completion from the Attorney General's Arrest Warrants Course for
Justices of the Peace.
Present law prohibits justices of the peace from issuing warrants for the arrest of certain
persons in the following situations:
(1)A peace officer for acts performed while in the course and scope of his official
duties.
(2)An administrator of any public or private elementary, secondary, high school,
vocational-technical school, college, university, or licensed child day care center in
this state or a teacher in any public or private elementary, secondary, high school,
vocational-technical school, college, or university in this state who is acting in the
course and scope of his official duties, unless an independent investigation into the
allegations has been conducted and the investigator's findings support the allegations
contained in the affidavit required by present law.
Proposed law retains present law and prohibits a justice of the peace from issuing a warrant
for the arrest of a person for the commission of a felony.
(Adds C.Cr.P. Art. 202(B)(3))