§ 15:81 — Bond for release for violation of municipal ordinances; parole or release of prisoners;

§81. Bond for release for violation of municipal ordinances; parole or release of prisoners;
penalty
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. Except as provided for in Subsection H of this Section in municipalities or wards
in which a city court or parish court vested with criminal jurisdiction exists, no bond for
release shall exceed one hundred dollars. In municipalities having criminal jurisdiction, it
shall not exceed twenty-five hundred dollars.
C. A person unable to furnish other surety may deposit the amount of the bond in
cash. The officer taking the money shall give him a receipt for the deposit. Upon his
appearance before any court in compliance with the condition of the bond, the money
deposited shall be refunded to him.
D. Within one-half hour after arrest, the captain, police clerk, or arresting officer of
the station where the person is being detained shall have the name of the arrested person
placed on a placard visible for public display in the main office of the police station. The
placard must be presented to any and all persons inquiring or requesting a view or perusal
of it.
E. The parole or release from custody of any person arrested or detained for violation
or alleged violation of an ordinance of any village, town, city, or other municipality shall be
executed in accordance with the provisions of this Section. A municipality, by ordinance,
may specifically grant the power of parole and release to the presiding judges and officers
of its municipal courts.
F. In the city of New Orleans, the parish parole officer of the state committee on
parole and each of the members of the jury commission of the parish in which the
municipality is located shall have the power to parole and release persons arrested or
detained for alleged violation of any of such municipalities' ordinances.
G. Whoever violates or advises, consents, aids, or abets in the violation of this
Section shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars
or imprisoned for not less than sixty days nor more than twelve months, or both.
H.(1) In the Municipal Court of New Orleans, no bond for release shall exceed thirty
thousand dollars.
(2) In matters within the criminal jurisdiction of the mayor's court in the city of
Kenner, no bond for release shall exceed twenty-five hundred dollars.

Legislative History

Acts 1966, No. 311, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1967. Amended by Acts 1981, No. 848, §1, eff. Aug. 2, 1981; Acts 1999, No. 266, §1; Acts 1999, No. 557, §1; Acts 2011, 1 st Ex. Sess., No. 18, §1; Acts 2012, No. 118, §1; Acts 2012, No. 714, §8.