Louisiana Revised Statutes 16:16.3 – NOTE: See Acts 2020, No. 110, §6 and Acts 2022, No. 654, §1, about the provisions of the Act ceasing to be effective on July 1, 2024.
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 16:16.3
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- 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.
- Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
§16.3. Additional court costs to defray expenses; Orleans Parish
A. In all criminal cases over which the district attorney’s office in Orleans Parish has jurisdiction, there may be taxed as costs against every defendant who is convicted after trial or after he pleads guilty or who forfeits his bond a nonrefundable sum of twenty dollars, which shall be in addition to all other fines, costs, or forfeitures lawfully imposed.
B. The sums collected under Subsection A of this Section shall be remitted monthly by the judicial administrator’s office of the Criminal District Court for the parish of Orleans to the office of the district attorney of Orleans Parish to be used at his discretion in defraying expenses of his office.
Acts 2003, No. 706, §1; Acts 2020, No. 110, §3; Acts 2022, No. 654, §1, eff. June 18, 2022.