Each law enforcement agency empowered to arrest or take into custody any individual described in La. Rev. Stat. 15:590 shall obtain and forward to the bureau two sets of legible fingerprints and other identification data as required by the bureau within seventy-two hours after arrest and booking.  However, this period may be extended to cover any intervening official holiday or weekend.  

Acts 1981, No. 449, §1, eff. July 1, 1981; Acts 1991, No. 106, §1.