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2020 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 145
BY SENATOR ROBERT MILLS
COURTS. Provides relative to fees charged by the clerk of court for the Twenty-sixth
Judicial District Court. (2/3 - CA7s2.1(A)) (8/1/20)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact RS. 13:970(K) and (L), relative to the Twenty-sixth Judicial District
3 Court; to provide relative to filing fees; to authorize the clerk of court to collect filing
4 fees as determined by the judges of the district; to provide relative to transcription
5 charges; and to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 13:970(K) and (L) are hereby amended and reenacted to read as
8 follows:
9 ยง970. Court reporter for Twenty-sixth Judicial District for Webster Parish
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11 K.(1) The clerk of court of the Twenty-sixth Judicial District Court for the
12 Parish of Webster shall , in addition to the filing fees authorized by law, collect from
13 any person filing any type of suit or proceeding, intervention, or third party demand,
14 the following amounts, which collect from every person filing any type of civil
15 suit or proceeding, who is not otherwise exempted by law from the payment of
16 court costs or subject to the provisions of Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure
17 Article 5181 et seq., a fee to be determined by the judges of the district, sitting
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1 en banc, which shall not exceed fifteen dollars. The fee shall be maintained by him
2 in a special account designated as the clerk of court's reporter's fund:.
3 (1) In each suit in which the demand is for five thousand dollars or more the
4 fee shall be fifteen dollars.
5 (2) In each suit for divorce, partition, injunction, separation of property, child
6 custody, receivership proceedings, concursus proceedings, money demands of one
7 thousand dollars or more and less than five thousand dollars, and money demands
8 irrespective of amount involved when accompanied by a conservatory writ the fee
9 shall be ten dollars.
10 (3) Money demands of more than five hundred dollars and less than one
11 thousand dollars, probate proceedings, adoptions, tutorships and interdictions the fee
12 shall be five dollars for each suit.
13 (4) Money demands of five hundred dollars or less, and in all other cases not
14 enumerated herein the fee shall be three dollars.
15 (5)(2) No deposit shall be required in forma pauperis cases, but the clerk of
16 court may test by rule the plaintiff's right to the benefits of Articles 5181 through
17 5188 of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure and of R.S. 13:4529.
18 (6)(3) The clerk of the district court shall deduct ten percent of all sums
19 collected hereunder as compensation for his services at the end of each month and
20 remit the remainder thereof to the Webster Parish Police Jury for deposit into the
21 court reporter's fund with full accounting of all receipts for the period covered by
22 such remittance.
23 (7) The amount to be collected by the clerk of the district court for the
24 Twenty-Sixth Judicial District for the parish of Webster in addition to the filing fees
25 authorized by law may be increased or decreased by the senior judge upon the
26 approval of the Webster Parish Police Jury and the Webster Parish Bar Association.
27 L. Additionally, in civil and criminal cases the Webster Parish Police Jury
28 shall be paid two dollars and fifty cents per thirty-one-line legal size page and fifty
29 cents per page for copies for all testimony transcribed by the court reporters. In civil
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1 appeals cases, the two dollar and fifty cent per page transcription charge applies for
2 transcriptions in excess of three hundred fifty pages. This charge shall be taxable as
3 court costs and shall be advanced to the court reporter assigned to the case for
4 delivery to the Webster Parish Police Jury for deposit in the clerk of court reporter's
5 fund.
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Curry Lann.
DIGEST
SB 145 Original 2020 Regular Session Robert Mills
Present law requires the clerk of court of the Twenty-sixth Judicial District Court for the
Parish of Webster to, in addition to the filing fees authorized by law, collect from any person
filing any type of suit or proceeding, intervention, or third party demand, the following
amounts:
(1)In each suit in which the demand is for $5,000 or more, the fee shall be $15.
(2)In each suit for divorce, partition, injunction, separation of property, child custody,
receivership proceedings, concursus proceedings, money demands of $1,000 or more
and less than $5,000, and money demands irrespective of amount involved when
accompanied by a conservatory writ, the fee shall be $10.
(3)Money demands of more than $500 and less than $1,000 dollars, probate
proceedings, adoptions, tutorships and interdictions, the fee shall be $5 for each suit.
(4) Money demands of $500 or less, and in all other cases not enumerated herein, the
fee shall be $3.
Proposed law repeals present law and changes the fee structure to require the clerk of court
of the Twenty-sixth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Webster to collect from every
person filing any type of civil suit or proceeding, who is not otherwise exempted by law
from the payment of court costs or subject to the provisions of Louisiana Code of Civil
Procedure Article 5181 et seq., a fee to be determined by the judges of the district, sitting
en banc, which shall not exceed $15.
Present law provides that the amount to be collected by the clerk of the district court for the
Twenty-sixth Judicial District for the parish of Webster in addition to the filing fees
authorized by law may be increased or decreased by the senior judge upon the approval of
the Webster Parish Police Jury and the Webster Parish Bar Association.
Proposed law repeals present law.
Present law provides that in civil appeals cases, the $2.50 per page transcription charge
applies for transcriptions in excess of 350 pages.
Proposed law repeals present law.
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Effective August 1, 2020.
(Amends R.S. 13:970(K) and (L))
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