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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 42
BY SENATOR CORTEZ
COURTS. Provides relative to the transfer of interest earned and certain unclaimed fees and
costs from the City Court of Lafayette's civil fee account. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 13:2078.1, relative to the City Court of Lafayette; to provide relative to the2
City Court of Lafayette civil fee account; to authorize the annual transfer of interest3
earned on the civil fee account to the general operational fund of the court; to4
authorize under certain conditions the transfer of certain unclaimed fees and costs5
in the civil fee account to the general operational fund of the court; to provide certain6
terms, conditions and procedures; and to provide for related matters.7
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:8
Section 1. R.S. 13:2078.1 is hereby enacted to read as follows:9
ยง2078.1. City Court of Lafayette; civil fee account10
A. Interest earned on the City Court of Lafayette civil fee account may11
be transferred annually by the judges to the general operational fund of the12
court.13
B. If unclaimed fees and costs in the City Court of Lafayette civil fee14
account have remained unclaimed for a period of three years or more, the15
judges of the court may thereafter transfer the amount of such unclaimed fees16
and costs to the general operational fund of the court. The city court shall17 SB NO. 42
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remain liable for the full amount of any viable claim for unclaimed property in1
accordance with any other provision of law. The provisions of this Subsection2
shall not affect any claim or right granted to a claimant by the provisions of the3
Uniform Unclaimed Property Act, R.S. 9:151, et seq.4
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Julie J. Baxter.
DIGEST
Proposed law authorizes the annual transfer of interest earned on the City Court of Lafayette
civil fee account to the general operational fund of the City Court of Lafayette.
Proposed law further provides that unclaimed fees and costs in the City Court of Lafayette
civil fee account which have remained unclaimed for a period of three years or more may
be transferred to the general operational fund of the City Court of Lafayette. Proposed law
further provides that after such transfers, the City Court of Lafayette shall remain liable for
the full amount of any viable claim for unclaimed property in accordance with present law.
Proposed law further provides that the provisions of proposed law shall not affect any claim
or right granted to a claimant by the provisions of the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act, R.S.
9:151 et seq.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Adds R.S. 13:2078.1)