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ACT No. 13
2015 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 75
BY REPRESENTATIVE SEABAUGH
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 13:962(I), relative to court reporters; to authorize an increase in
3 certain court costs collected by the clerk of court for the First Judicial District Court;
4 to provide for the removal of certain exceptions relative to the costs collected in
5 certain proceedings; to provide for an effective date; and to provide for related
6 matters.
7 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. R.S. 13:962(I) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
9 ยง962. Court reporters for the first judicial district First Judicial District
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11 I. The clerk of court of the First Judicial District Court shall collect from any
12 person filing any type of civil suit or proceeding, intervention, third party demand,
13 or reconventional demand the following amounts, which shall be maintained by him
14 in a separate account designated as the court reporters' fund. The clerk of court shall
15 collect in all suits or proceedings a sum to be set by a majority of the judges not to
16 exceed fifty seventy-five dollars, with the exception of succession proceedings and
17 foreclosure proceedings by executory process, in which event the amount to be
18 collected shall not exceed thirty-five dollars; and with the further exception of
19 tutorships, emancipations, mandamus suits to cancel mortgages, and money claims
20 of less than one thousand dollars, in which event the amount to be collected shall not
21 exceed thirty-five fifty dollars,; said deposits to be taxed as costs. Nothing in this
22 Subsection shall be construed to affect the rights of any litigant proceeding under
23 Article 5181 et seq. of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure Article 5181 et seq.
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1 Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not
2 signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature
3 by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If
4 vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become
5 effective on the day following such approval.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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