2009 Louisiana Laws TITLE 13 Courts and judicial procedure :: RS 13:996.64 Fees; fines; assessed, collected in forty-first judicial district court

§996.64.  Fees; fines; assessed, collected in Forty-First Judicial District Court

A.  Any defendant, other than an indigent, who pleads guilty or is convicted of an offense in the Forty-First Judicial District Court shall be assessed a fee of not less than twenty-five dollars, such costs to be in addition to any fine, clerk's fees, costs due to the Consolidated Judicial Expense Fund or sentence imposed by the court.

B.  Costs assessed against defendants pursuant to this Section collected by the sheriff of the parish.  All sums so collected shall be deposited in the Consolidated Judicial Expense Fund for the Forty-First Judicial District Court.

C.  When any bail bond posted in the Forty-First Judicial District Court guaranteeing the appearance of any defendant in any case in the district court has been forfeited, said surety company and/or local agent and/or insurance company for which said agent is writing bail bonds, shall be assessed costs not more than twenty-five dollars.  The forfeiture of any bond referred to hereinabove shall not be set aside until the above costs have been paid, in addition to the other legal requirements of law having been met for the setting aside of the forfeiture.  Costs assessed against surety companies pursuant to this Section shall be collected and administered in the same manner as that set out in Subsection B of this Section.

D.(1)  In all nonindigent criminal cases over which the Forty-First Judicial District Court has original, appellate, supervisory, or concurrent jurisdiction, including traffic violations other than parking, there shall be taxed as costs against every defendant who is convicted after trial or plea of guilty or nolo contendere or who forfeits his bond the sum of five dollars, which shall be in addition to all other fines, costs, or forfeitures lawfully imposed and which shall be transmitted to the Consolidated Judicial Expense Fund.

(2)  In addition to all other fines, costs, or forfeitures lawfully imposed by this Section or any other provision, the court may impose an additional cost against any defendant who has been finally convicted of a misdemeanor, excluding traffic violations, or a felony.  The additional costs authorized in this Paragraph shall not exceed five hundred dollars in the case of a misdemeanor nor exceed two thousand five hundred dollars in the case of a felony.  All such sums collected shall be transmitted to the Consolidated Judicial Expense Fund.

Acts 2006, No. 621, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.

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