La. Rev. Stat. § 16:16.3
Additional court costs to defray expenses; Orleans Parish
Louisiana · Louisiana Revised Statutes Title 16 — District Attorneys · Status: effective
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- La. Rev. Stat. § 16:16.3, Additional court costs to defray expenses; Orleans Parish, Louisiana, version 1 as recorded 2026-10-04, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/2698604
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A. In all criminal cases over which the district attorney's office in Orleans Parish has jurisdiction, there may be taxed as costs against every defendant who is convicted after trial or after he pleads guilty or who forfeits his bond a nonrefundable sum of twenty dollars, which shall be in addition to all other fines, costs, or forfeitures lawfully imposed.
B. The sums collected under Subsection A of this Section shall be remitted monthly by the judicial administrator's office of the Criminal District Court for the parish of Orleans to the office of the district attorney of Orleans Parish to be used at his discretion in defraying expenses of his office.