Louisiana · statute · La. Rev. Stat. tit. 15 · 873 active provisions
Unless otherwise provided by law, a sheriff, marshal, constable or other officer or person who serves a subpoena, summons, writ, notice, order or other process of a court, of a jury commission or of a coroner shall make a return showing the date and manner in which service was made. The return shall become part of the…
A.(1) All law enforcement officers of municipal police forces, sheriffs' departments, and the division of state police are hereby authorized and empowered and it is made mandatory and compulsory on their part to confiscate and immediately destroy all gambling devices or machines used for gambling that come to their att…
A. For the purposes of this Section, a slot machine is an antique if at least twenty-five years have elapsed since it was manufactured. B. Notwithstanding any provisions of Section 31 of this Title, or R.S. 14:90.1, or any other provisions of law to the contrary, an antique slot machine may be owned and possessed in th…
Whenever any money used as evidence of a crime in criminal cases and thereafter deposited with the clerk of the district court is not disposed of by the district attorney or the district judge within five years after final disposition of the case, the clerk of the district court shall remit all of such funds to the gov…
A.(1) All law enforcement officers are hereby authorized to confiscate and dispose of any criminal instrument in accordance with the procedures provided for in R.S. 15:41. (2) If the criminal instrument is a firearm, it shall be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 40:1798. B. For purposes of this Sect…
A. If there is a specific statute concerning the disposition of the seized property, the property shall be disposed of in accordance with the provisions thereof. B. If there is no such specific statute, the following governs the disposition of property seized in connection with a criminal proceeding, which is not to be…
A. No search warrant shall issue directing the seizure of property belonging to, or directing the search of the premises occupied by, any person engaged in the business of collecting, writing, editing, or disseminating news through a news media unless there is probable cause, established by affidavit, to believe that s…
A. The court may issue a subpoena when requested by either the defendant or the state, as provided for in Code of Criminal Procedure Articles 731 through 737, when an attorney is believed to be in possession of evidence of the commission of a crime by a client or a third party. In response to the subpoena, the attorney…
A. At the earliest practicable time after arrest of a person imprisoned or detained for violation of any ordinance of any village, town, city, or municipality, an order admitting to bail shall be made. Upon execution of the bond in due form and with proper surety, the arrested person shall be released pending trial. B.…
A. A guaranteed arrest bond certificate with respect to which a fidelity and surety company has become surety as provided in Subsection B of this Section, when posted by the person whose signature appears thereon, shall be accepted in lieu of cash bail in an amount not to exceed two hundred dollars, as a bail bond, to…
A. As criminal bail bonds are contractual and civil in nature, their creation and enforcement are governed both by the laws applicable to civil contracts and by the laws set forth in the statutes and code articles governing criminal procedure. B. The surety, when entering into a criminal bail bond obligation, must cons…
A. If a defendant fails to appear after January 1, 2017, and a judgment of bond forfeiture rendered against a commercial surety company has not been satisfied, nor has a suspensive appeal been timely perfected, the prosecuting attorney may file with the court, in the parish where the bail undertaking is forfeited, a ru…
A.(1) There shall be a fee in the amount of fifteen dollars assessed in connection with the issuance of every criminal bond posted within each parish. The fee shall be collected by the sheriff of each parish from every person seeking release by means of a criminal bond, or their designated representative. (2) The proce…
A. A fee of twelve dollars shall be assessed for every criminal bond posted in the parishes of Iberia, St. Mary, and St. Martin. Any person seeking release by means of a criminal bond in these parishes, or their designated representative, shall pay the fee to the sheriff of that parish who shall deposit the funds in th…
A. An additional fee of twenty dollars shall be assessed for every criminal bond posted in the city court of Denham Springs. This fee shall be in addition to any other fees or fines as provided by law. Any person seeking release by means of a criminal bond, or his designated representative, shall pay the fee to the mar…
A. When the court declares a forfeiture of cash, a check, a negotiable bond, or a money order which has been deposited as bail, the court shall order the disposition of such security in satisfaction of the bail obligation. B. When the bail undertaking is discharged, the court shall order the security returned to the de…
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any sheriff having possession or control of cash bail bonds which have been discharged and which remain unclaimed for more than three years, or which belong to an owner who is unknown or who has not been heard from for more than three years, shall deposit t…
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the City Court of the city of Thibodaux having in its control or possession cash bail bonds which have been discharged and which remain unclaimed for more than three years, or which belong to an owner who is unknown or has not been heard from for more than…
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any city court having in its control or possession cash bail bonds which have been discharged and which remain unclaimed for more than three years, after notice by certified mail, or which belong to an owner who is unknown or has not been heard from for mor…
The term "appearance bond" shall be taken and intended to mean every bail bond, recognizance, or other obligation, or deposit of cash, checks, negotiable bonds, or money orders, made or taken to secure the appearance of any person before any court; but in all cases where cash, checks, negotiable securities or money ord…
A. Every judgment decreeing the forfeiture of any appearance bond, and every mortgage resulting from the recordation of such judgment, shall be prescribed by the lapse of ten years from the rendition of such judgment; provided, that the district attorney or any party in interest may have such judgment revived at any ti…
Each of the jury commissioners for the Parish of Orleans shall receive a salary of not less than four thousand two hundred dollars per annum. The commissioners shall select a secretary of the board of jury commissioners. The secretary of the board shall receive a salary of not less than four thousand dollars per annum.…
Unless otherwise provided by law, all subpoenas, notices, process, orders and papers issued by the jury commissioners in the parish of Orleans shall be served by a chief process server or one of his deputies, which said chief process server and as many deputy process servers as may be necessary shall be appointed by th…
The registrar of voters for the Parish of Orleans shall prepare and furnish to the jury commission for the Parish of Orleans quarterly a list containing the names of persons added to and deleted from the voter registration rolls for the Parish of Orleans during the preceding quarter, which list the jury commission may…
Unless otherwise provided by law, a subpoena, notice, process, order or document issued by a jury commission shall be served by the sheriff.