2009 Louisiana Laws TITLE 13 Courts and judicial procedure :: RS 13:996.22.1 Judicial expense funds; judicial districts in certain parishes with populations between thirty-nine thousand and forty thousand five hundred; additional costs in criminal cases

§996.22.1.  Judicial expense funds; judicial districts in certain parishes with populations between thirty-nine thousand and forty thousand five hundred; additional costs in criminal cases

The provisions of this Section shall apply to any judicial district court whose boundaries are coterminous with any parish having a population between thirty-nine thousand and forty thousand five hundred according to the most recent federal decennial census and which has a statutorily created judicial expense fund.  The judges of the district, sitting en banc, are authorized to increase the maximum amount of costs that may be imposed in all criminal cases over which the district court has jurisdiction against every defendant who is convicted after trial or after plea of guilty or who forfeits his bond, in an amount which shall not exceed ten dollars and which shall be in addition to all other fines, costs, or forfeitures lawfully imposed.  All sums so taxed and collected shall be transmitted by the sheriff to the clerk of court as provided by law governing the judicial expense fund.

Acts 2004, No. 403, §1.