§ 13:3105 — Compensation of jurors in civil cases

§3105. Compensation of jurors in civil cases
A. Those serving as jurors in the trial of civil cases triable by a jury in the Civil
District Court for the parish of Orleans shall be entitled to compensation and an allowance
for mileage necessarily traveled going to and from the courthouse in accordance with R.S.
13:3049, the said sum total to be charged as costs and paid by the party cast for such costs.
The party praying for the jury shall deposit with the clerk of the civil district court the sum
of twenty-five dollars as jury costs. In addition, prior to the commencement of the trial, the
party praying for the jury shall deposit in the registry of the court the sum of three hundred
dollars for each day the court estimates the trial will last. No case triable by jury shall be
placed on the court's jury trial docket or fixed for trial unless the twenty-five-dollar deposit
is made. No such trial by jury shall commence until the additional deposit provided for in this
Subsection is made.
B. Any deposit so made as herein provided shall be returned to the party making such
deposit and any bond filed as herein provided shall be cancelled in the event that the matter
in which trial by jury has been requested has been tried, settled, determined or otherwise
disposed of for any reason, without having been tried by a jury.
C. The judge of the division of the civil district court to whom a case to be tried by
a jury has been allotted shall have the right to entirely waive the depositing of such jurors'
compensation and the filing of bond, upon proper showing to the satisfaction of the said
judge that the party or parties praying for such trial by jury is or are financially unable to
deposit such sum and furnish such bond. The said judge shall have the further right and
discretion of determining whether the compensation to be paid to the jurors serving in such
case shall be paid prior to the actual trial of the said case in whole or by partial payments
should such party or parties be financially able to provide for such payment prior to such
trial. In the event that all or any part of such jurors' compensation is not paid by the party
cast upon rendition of the verdict of any such jury trying such case, such compensation shall
be advanced by the clerk of court out of the jury fees on deposit with him or, if such fund is
not sufficient so to do, then out of the judicial expense fund, and the said clerk and/or the
judicial expense fund shall have a right thereafter to recover such sum so advanced from the
party cast, if it be found that such party cast is financially able to make such payment in
reimbursement of such jurors' compensation, or from the surety on any bond furnished by
said party against whom judgment has been rendered.

Legislative History

Amended by Acts 1966, No. 327, §1; Acts 1968, No. 540, §1; Acts 1973, No. 68, §1; Acts 1975, No. 233, §1; Acts 2010, No. 900, §1, eff. July 2, 2010; Acts 2022, No. 314, §1, eff. June 10, 2022.