2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 44 — Public records and recorders
RS 44:181.5 — Separate account

§181.5. Separate account

A. A separate account is hereby established in the Consolidated Judicial Expense Fund, and all sums collected or received by the clerk of court as parish recorder, except as otherwise provided for the Archival Trust Fund, shall be deposited in the separate account to be disbursed by the judges of the courts, en banc, as provided in R.S. 13:996.62.

B. Subject to the authority and approval of the judges of the courts, en banc, as provided in R.S. 13:996.62, the courts may authorize the expenditure of funds connected with the administration or function of the recordation of documents by the office of the clerk of court as the parish recorder, including salaries, benefits, and pension contributions. The separate account shall be audited annually, and a copy of the report furnished to the legislative auditor as provided by law, where it shall be available for public inspection, and with the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget. The audit report shall also be published, at the sole expense of the clerk of court for the Forty-First Judicial District Court, in the official journal of the parish of Orleans, no later than January first of each year.

C. The administrator of the Consolidated Judicial Expense Fund, designated by the judges of the courts having authority over the fund, beginning in 2010, on or before July seventh, annually, shall submit to the clerk of court a financial statement and accounting of all sums which have been deposited therein by the clerk of court as parish recorder.

Acts 2006, No. 621, §5, eff. June 23, 2006.

*As appears in enrolled bill.

NOTE: See Acts 2006, No. 621, §8, eff. June 23, 2006, relative to the separate account referred to in this Section eff. Jan. 1, 2009.