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2019 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 86
BY SENATOR ERDEY
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
COURTS. Authorizes the City Court of Denham Springs to transfer surplus filing fees.
(8/1/19)
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 13:2080.1(D), relative to the City Court of Denham Springs; to provide
3 relative to surplus filing fees and costs and unclaimed fees and costs; to authorize the
4 transfer of surplus filing fees and costs and unclaimed fees and costs into a civil fee
5 account; to provide certain terms and conditions; and to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 13:2080.1(D) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
8 ยง2080.1. Miscellaneous city courts; fees; surplus in civil fee account
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10 D. When a surplus of filing fees and costs or unclaimed fees and costs
11 has accumulated in the City Court of Denham Springs' civil fund, and the
12 surplus or unclaimed fees and costs have remained unclaimed for a period of
13 three years or more, the judge of the court may transfer the amount of the
14 surplus or the amount of the unclaimed fees and costs that remain unclaimed
15 after notice to the depositors by publication in the legal journal of the parish or
16 by other reasonable means, to the operating fund, known as the General Fund
17 Account, of the court. This Section shall not affect the payment of civil fees to
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1 which the judge is entitled pursuant to R.S. 13:1874(A).
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Angela L. De Jean.
DIGEST
SB 86 Engrossed 2019 Regular Session Erdey
Proposed law provides that when a surplus of filing fees and costs or unclaimed fees and
costs has accumulated in the City Court of Denham Springs' civil fund, and the surplus or
unclaimed fees and costs have remained unclaimed for a period of three years or more, the
judge of the court may transfer the amount of the surplus or the amount of the unclaimed
fees and costs that remain unclaimed after notice to the depositors by publication in the legal
journal of the parish or by other reasonable means, to the operating fund, known as the
General Fund Account, of the court.
Proposed law provides that it shall not affect the payment of civil fees to which the judge is
entitled pursuant to present law.
Effective August 1, 2019.
(Adds R.S. 13:2080.1(D))
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