RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 112 (HB 389) 2016 Regular Session Jones
Existing law provides for the territorial jurisdiction of the City Court of the town of Franklin
and that the territorial jurisdiction of the court extends throughout the town of Franklin and
throughout the whole of Ward Three of St. Mary Parish.
New law retains existing law and additionally provides that the territorial jurisdiction of the
court extends throughout the portions of Ward Ten of St. Mary Parish that are east of the
Charenton Drainage and Navigation Canal and south of Bayou Teche.
New law further provides that in the portions of Ward Ten that are outside of the town of
Franklin, the court shall have jurisdiction concurrent with the justice of the peace in those
cases in which the justice of the peace would have jurisdiction.
Effective August 1, 2016.
(Amends R.S. 13:2488.1(A))