HLS 16RS-1152 ORIGINAL
2016 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 627
BY REPRESENTATIVE JACKSON
COURTS/MAYORS: Provides relative to court costs in Mayor's Courts
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 33:441(A)(2) and (3) and to enact R.S. 33:441(A)(4), relative to
3 court costs assessed by mayor's courts; to authorize an additional court cost to be
4 assessed; to provide that a portion of such costs shall support the local public
5 defender's office; and to provide for related matters.
6Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 33:441(A)(2) and (3) are hereby amended and reenacted and R.S.
833:441(A)(4) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
9 ยง441. Mayor's court
10 A.
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12 (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the mayor
13 shall impose court costs not to exceed twenty dollars for each offense, as defined by
14 ordinance, on any defendant convicted of a violation of a municipal ordinance,
15 provided that ten dollars of such court costs collected shall be remitted to the local
16 public defender's office.
17 (2)(3) The mayor may suspend the execution in whole or in part of a fine or
18 imprisonment, or both, imposed for violation of a municipal ordinance and place the
19 defendant on unsupervised or supervised probation with such conditions as the
20 mayor may fix and, at any time during the probation, modify, add, or discharge. The
21 probation shall be for a period as the mayor shall specify up to one year. The mayor
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1 may terminate or revoke the probation at any time. At the termination of the
2 probation, the mayor may set the conviction aside and dismiss the prosecution.
3 (3)(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, when a
4 defendant has been convicted of violation of a municipal ordinance, the mayor may
5 suspend the imposition or the execution of the whole or any part of the sentence and
6 place the defendant on unsupervised probation upon such conditions as the mayor
7 may fix. Such suspension of sentence and probation shall be for a period of six
8 months or such shorter period as the mayor may specify. But in no case shall the
9 probationary period imposed exceed the maximum penalty of imprisonment that may
10 be imposed for violation of a particular ordinance.
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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)]
HB 627 Original 2016 Regular Session Jackson
Abstract: Requires mayors to impose court costs not to exceed $20 for each offense, as
defined by ordinance, on any defendant convicted of a violation of a municipal
ordinance provided that $10 of such court costs collected shall be remitted to the
local public defenders office.
Proposed law requires mayors to impose court costs not to exceed $20 for each offense, as
defined by ordinance, on any defendant convicted of a violation of a municipal ordinance.
Proposed law requires that $10 of such court costs collected shall be remitted to the local
public defenders office.
(Amends R.S. 33:441(A)(2) and (3); Adds R.S. 33:441(A)(4))
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