Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:507 – Surplus revenue, transfers between parish and city
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:507
- Indigent: means any person who meets the state definition of indigent who would have qualified for indigent care in any general hospital owned and operated by the state of Louisiana prior to arrest and who is housed in any parish or municipal jail or detention facility or state prison, shall be treated in the nearest general hospital owned and operated by the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:17
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
The governing authority of the parish, and the city council of the city, may first use or expend the income from the fund so provided for the poor, indigent and destitute of its particular jurisdiction, but in the event all of the annual revenue of the parish arising from the alms fund provided by this Part is not needed in the parish outside of the city, then, if the surplus is needed by the city for its poor, indigent and destitute, the parish shall pay over to the alms fund of the city that portion of its yearly revenue not needed by it during that year, and likewise if the city does not expend all of the revenues during any one year arising from its alms fund provided by this Part, it shall pay over the surplus left over from the year to the alms fund of the parish, if the poor, indigent and destitute of the parish stand in need thereof.