2009 Louisiana Laws TITLE 13 Courts and judicial procedure :: RS 13:714.2 Commissioners; magistrate section; forty-first judicial district court

§714.2.  Commissioners; Magistrate Section; Forty-First Judicial District Court

A.(1)  There shall be four commissioners appointed to the Magistrate Section of the Forty-First Judicial District Court.  The persons appointed to the offices of commissioner created by this Section shall be known as commissioners and shall not be judges, but shall have the same qualifications, powers, duties, jurisdiction, and functions, all as is now or hereafter provided for the judge in the Magistrate Section of the Forty-First Judicial District Court.  The commissioners shall serve a term of six years.

(2)  The salary of the commissioners of the Forty-First Judicial District Court for the parish shall be fifty-five percent of the salary paid to a judge of the Forty-First Judicial District Court, said salary and related benefits as provided for by law, to be payable in the same manner and from the same sources as the salary and benefits of a judge of the Forty-First Judicial District Court.  The support services and personnel including minute clerks and stenographers, as shall be necessary for the offices of commissioner, and such supporting services and personnel shall be paid in the same amount and from the same source as they are paid on December 31, 2008.

(3)  The judges of the Forty-First Judicial District Court, sitting en banc, shall determine the further powers, duties, functions, and policy affecting the offices of commissioner, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Section.

B.  Should there be a vacancy created by the removal, resignation, or death of any commissioner, the judges of the district court, sitting en banc, shall fill the vacancy by appointment for the unexpired term.  At the termination of the initial term and/or any subsequent terms of a commissioner, said judges, sitting en banc, shall appoint successors to the office for like terms.  All commissioners are subject to removal for any reason for which a judge of the Forty-First Judicial District Court may be removed from office.  Such removal shall be by order of the judges sitting en banc, after notice and hearing.  No person shall serve as commissioner unless he has practiced law in the state of Louisiana for a period of not less than five years.

C.  No commissioner of the magistrate office shall practice law before the Forty-First Judicial District Court.

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