2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 13 — Courts and judicial procedure
RS 13:621.44 — Abolition of orleans parish juvenile court; extension of terms of office; jurisdiction; conferred on forty-first judicial district court; transfer of cases
§621.44. Orleans Parish Juvenile Court; extension of terms of office; jurisdiction; conferred on Forty-First Judicial District Court; transfer of cases
A. The terms of office of the judges of the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court now in office shall be extended until December 31, 2014, and their successors shall be elected at the congressional election of the same year. After the effective date of this Section1, no judge shall be elected to the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court except to fill a vacancy and in such case the term of office shall expire on December 31, 2014.
B. It is the express intent of this Section that the jurisdiction conferred by law, particularly the Louisiana Children's Code, upon the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court, shall be vested in the Forty-First Judicial District Court and shall be the same as it exists on the effective date of this Section1. All of its powers, its duties, and its various departments or its personnel, except as herein set forth and provided shall be vested in the Forty-First Judicial District Court as provided in this Section and R.S. 13:621.45 and 621.46.
C. Effective January 1, 2015, all pending cases filed in the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court are hereby transferred to the Forty-First Judicial District Court for the parish of Orleans. All records and files of the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court shall be transferred to the Forty-First Judicial District Court, which shall hear and dispose of each such case with the same legal effect as if it had been instituted in that court in the first instance.
Acts 2006, No. 621, §27, eff. June 23, 2006; Acts 2008, No. 635, §1, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2008, No. 674, §1, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2008, No. 879, §1.
1Effective June 23, 2006. See Acts 2006, No. 621, §28.
NOTE: Acts 2006, No. 621, which created the 41st J.D.C., provided for an effective date of Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2008, No. 873, extended the effective date to Dec. 31, 2014.
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