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ACT No. 17
2015 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 470
BY REPRESENTATIVE MIGUEZ
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 13:996.37(A), relative to additional court costs or fees; to
3 provide for an increase in court costs or fees for the judicial expense fund of the
4 Sixteenth Judicial District Court; and to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 13:996.37(A) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง996.37. Judicial expense fund for Sixteenth Judicial District
8 A. In addition to all other fees or costs now or hereafter provided by law,
9 each clerk of court in the Sixteenth Judicial District shall collect from every person
10 filing any type of civil suit or proceeding and who is not otherwise exempted by law
11 from the payment of court costs a sum to be determined by the judges of said the
12 district, sitting en banc, which sum shall not exceed fifteen thirty-five dollars,
13 subject, however, to the provisions of Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure, Article
14 5181, et seq. In all criminal cases over which the Sixteenth Judicial District Court
15 has jurisdiction, there shall be taxed as costs against every defendant who is
16 convicted after trial or after he pleads guilty or who forfeits his bond a sum likewise
17 determined, but which shall not exceed five twenty-five dollars, which shall be in
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1 addition to all other fines, costs, or forfeitures lawfully imposed, and which shall be
2 transmitted to the said clerk for further disposition in accordance herewith.
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SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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