§ 13:991 — Judicial expense fund for Nineteenth Judicial District

§991. Judicial expense fund for Nineteenth Judicial District
A. In addition to all other fees or costs now or hereafter provided by law, the
clerk of court of the Nineteenth Judicial District shall collect from every person filing
any type of civil suit or proceeding and who is not otherwise exempted by law from
the payment of court costs a sum of sixty dollars, subject, however, to the provisions
of Code of Civil Procedure Article 5181 et seq.; and, in all criminal cases over which
the Nineteenth Judicial District Court has jurisdiction, there shall be taxed as costs
against every defendant who is convicted after trial or after plea of guilty or who
forfeits his bond a sum likewise determined but which shall not exceed five dollars,
shall be in addition to all other fines, costs or forfeitures lawfully imposed, and which
shall be transmitted to the clerk for further disposition in accordance with this
Section.
B. The clerk of court shall place all sums collected or received under this
section in a separate account to be designated as the Judicial Expense Fund for the
Nineteenth Judicial District Court. The judges, en banc, of the Nineteenth Judicial
District shall have control over the fund and all disbursements made therefrom. They
shall cause to be conducted annually an audit of the fund and the books and accounts
relating thereto, and shall file the same with the office of the legislative auditor where
it shall be available for public inspection.

Legislative History

Added by Acts 1969, No. 135, §1; Acts 2024, No. 233, §1.