SB 256

2026 Regular Session  ENROLLED
  ACT No. 15
 SENATE BILL NO. 256
 BY SENATOR MORRIS
1AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 13:761(C), 1211, 1211.1, 1212(A), (B)(1) through (5), 1212.1,
31213.1, 1213.2, 1216, 1222, 1338, 1371.2, 1373(A)(1), 1373.1, the introductory
4paragraph of 1381, 1381(21), 1381.3, 1381.5(A) and (B)(2)(e), 1381.7(A), 2515, and
55971, R.S. 15:85.1(A)(2)(d) and R.S. 18:2(3), 444(E), 602(C)(1) and (E)(2)(c),
61300.7(B), 1354(A)(1), 1511.2(E), and 1511.3(A)(1) and to repeal R.S. 13:1031,
71033, 1371, 1371.1, and 1378, relative to the clerk of court in Orleans Parish; to
8provide for one clerk of the civil district court and the criminal district court; to
9provide for payments from the Clerk of Court Expense Fund; to provide for the
10administration of the court by the clerk of court in Orleans Parish; to provide for an
11effective date; and to provide for related matters.
12 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
13Section 1. R.S. 13:761(C), 1211, 1211.1, 1212(A), (B)(1) through (5), 1212.1,
14 1213.1, 1213.2, 1216, 1222, 1338, 1371.2, 1373(A)(1), 1373.1, the introductory paragraph
15 of 1381, 1381(21), 1381.3, 1381.5(A) and (B)(2)(e), 1381.7(A), 2515, and 5971 are hereby
16 amended and reenacted to read as follows:
17§761. Clerks' Supplemental Compensation Fund; creation; sources of funds
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19C. The clerks of all of the district courts and criminal district courts of this
20state shall remit to the Clerks' Supplemental Compensation Fund from the funds
21transferred from the advance deposit account to the salary fund account an amount
22calculated at the rate of four dollars for every original civil suit filed in their offices.
23The clerk of the Civil District Court court for the parish of Orleans shall remit the
24fees required in this Subsection from the judicial expense fund of the Civil District
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1Court for the parish of Orleans. The clerk of the Criminal District Court for the
2parish of Orleans shall remit the fees required in this Subsection from the clerk of the
3Criminal District Court Expense Fund for the parish of Orleans. The clerks of all of
4the district courts and criminal district courts of this state shall remit all costs so
5collected to the board monthly on or before the tenth day of each calendar month.
6The disbursement of the proceeds from the fund may be authorized only by a
7majority of the members of the board.
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9§1211. Qualifications; duties; bond; collection of fees; deputies; minute clerks
10The qualifications and duties of the Orleans clerk of civil district court shall
11be as now fixed by law. He shall furnish bond in the sum of twenty thousand dollars,
12which shall be examined by the court, and all testimony given in the examination
13shall be reduced to writing and filed of record in the court. He shall charge and
14collect the fees prescribed by the legislature until superseded by those fixed by the
15court. The clerk is authorized, with the approval of the judges of the civil district
16court, to appoint deputies and other assistants; and he may remove them at pleasure,
17or the court may remove them. Each judge of the civil district court and criminal
18district court shall appoint be appointed, subject to the rules of the court to
19which they are assigned, one minute clerk, who shall be sworn as deputy clerk, and
20shall receive a salary as the court en banc executive committee of the Consolidated
21Judicial Expense Fund for Orleans Parish may fix. The salaries currently paid
22by the City of New Orleans shall be continued at the current amount until the
23executive committee certifies there are sufficient funds to pay them. When
24directed by the court, a minute clerk shall administer the oath required by law of all
25witnesses and jurors.
26§1211.1. Clerk; election; term of office
27A. There shall be one clerk of the Civil District Court court for the parish of
28Orleans, who shall be elected by the qualified electors of Orleans Parish. He shall be
29elected at the election for parochial and municipal officers in Orleans Parish, shall
30serve for a term of four years, and shall take office and begin his term on the first
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1Monday in May following election.
2B. To facilitate transition to a consolidated office of the clerk of court, no
3employee of the clerk of the Criminal District Court on the date this Section
4becomes effective may be discharged from employment by the clerk before
5January 15, 2027, except for good cause shown including but not limited to
6insubordination or violation of any state or federal law, notwithstanding the
7provisions of R.S. 13:1371.2. The clerk of the office of the consolidated clerk of
8court may hire temporary employees or hire contractors to assist in the
9transition using unrestricted funds of the clerk until June 30, 2027.
10§1212. Salary
11A. The Orleans clerk of the civil district court shall receive a salary as
12established in R.S. 13:782(A) based on the applicable population of the parish
13according to the latest United States census which shall be payable out of the judicial
14expense clerk's salary fund beginning with Fiscal Year 1997-1998 and each fiscal
15year thereafter. In addition to this amount, the clerk of the civil district court shall
16receive a salary of ten thousand dollars which shall be payable by the state judicial
17expense fund.
18B.(1) The Louisiana Clerks of Court Certification program, as established
19pursuant to R.S. 13:782(I) and (J), shall apply to the clerk of the Civil District Court
20court for the parish of Orleans.
21(2) In addition to those persons eligible pursuant to R.S. 13:782(I)(3) and
221371.1(B)(2), the person holding the office of clerk of the Civil District Court court
23for the parish of Orleans shall be eligible for participation in the clerks of court
24certification program.
25(3) The requisite education and training will be provided as set forth in R.S.
2613:782(I)(4).
27(4) The clerks of court certification program committee, as created pursuant
28to R.S. 13:782(J) to govern the certification program, shall also apply to the clerk of
29the Civil District Court court for the parish of Orleans.
30(5) Documents showing the successful completion of the certification
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1program shall be submitted to and approved by the certification committee. Upon
2approval of the application for certification, a person holding the office of clerk of
3the Civil District Court court for the parish of Orleans shall receive the designation
4of Certified Clerk of Court (CCC) and notice of the approval shall be forwarded to
5the legislative auditor by the certification committee.
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7§1212.1. Expenses
8In addition to his salary, the clerk of the Civil District Court court for the
9Parish parish of Orleans, shall receive a sum not to exceed ten percent of his annual
10salary as an expense allowance. This allowance shall be payable out of the judicial
11expense clerk's salary fund upon the warrant of the clerk of the civil district court.
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13§1213.1. Payment of costs in lump sum
14In lieu of the fees enumerated in R.S. 13:1213 or otherwise set by the judges
15of the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, the judges of the Civil District
16Court for the Parish of Orleans may authorize the clerk of the Civil District Court
17court to demand and receive from plaintiffs and defendants a fee to cover the cost
18of all pleadings filed respectively by the plaintiff and by the defendant. Such fee
19shall be in an amount set by the judges of the Civil District Court for the Parish of
20Orleans, sitting en banc, and may vary according to the type of lawsuit filed.
21Different fees may be established for the plaintiff and for the defendant. Upon the
22filing of initial pleadings by the plaintiff, the clerk shall collect the fee from the
23plaintiff, and no further or additional fees shall be demanded by the clerk from the
24plaintiff upon the filing of subsequent pleadings by the plaintiff. Upon the filing of
25initial pleadings by the defendant, the clerk shall collect the fee from the defendant,
26and no further or additional fees shall be demanded by the clerk from the defendant
27upon the filing of subsequent pleadings by the defendant.
28§1213.2. Fees; clerk of the Civil District Court court
29The Orleans clerk of the Civil District Court court shall collect the fees and
30costs set forth in R.S. 13:1213.1, and any other applicable law, and shall deposit no
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1less than fifty forty percent of the amounts collected in the Clerk's Salary Fund. Fifty
2Sixty percent shall be deposited in the judicial expense fund for the Civil District
3Court for the Parish parish of Orleans after deduction of statutorily mandated
4charges and fees. The clerk shall remit to the judicial expense fund of the Civil
5District Court fifty sixty percent of such fees no later than the twenty-fifth day of the
6month following the preceding month's collection.
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8§1216. Docket and index
9The clerk of the civil district court shall keep a docket of each proceeding
10with a proper index thereto.
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12§1222. Motor vehicles for the office of the clerk of the civil district court
13A. The clerk of the civil district court may purchase or lease three motor
14vehicles to be used for official office use only.
15B. The clerk of the civil district court may purchase insurance for the motor
16vehicles authorized in Subsection A of this Section. The insurance shall be purchased
17from an insurance company which is licensed to do business under the laws of this
18state.
19C. The clerk of the civil district court may use any funds which are lawfully
20available to him to purchase or lease the motor vehicles and to pay the insurance on
21the motor vehicles, as authorized in this Section.
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23§1338. Transfer of cases
24A. All pending cases filed in the Civil District Court for the Parish parish of
25Orleans over civil commitment proceedings where the Criminal District Court for
26the Parish parish of Orleans has determined a mentally defective defendant is
27incapable of standing trial, is a danger to himself or others, and is unlikely in the
28foreseeable future to be capable of standing trial are hereby transferred to the
29Criminal District Court for the Parish parish of Orleans for further proceedings in
30accordance with law. A judge of the civil district court or the criminal district court
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1on his own motion, or upon motion by the district attorney of Orleans Parish or the
2attorney of the defendant, may have such case transferred upon the signing of the
3order to transfer by either a judge of the Criminal District Court for the Parish parish
4of Orleans or a judge of the Civil District Court for the Parish parish of Orleans.
5Upon the signing of such an order, the clerk of the Civil District Court for the Parish
6of Orleans or the clerk of the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans shall
7effect delivery of the record to the clerk of the Criminal District Court for the Parish
8of Orleans, who shall receipt the same and properly file it in his office. The Criminal
9District Court for the Parish parish of Orleans shall hear and dispose of the case with
10the same legal effect as if it had been instituted in that court in the first instance.
11B. With respect to cases and jurisdiction transferred according to this Section,
12the criminal sheriff for the parish of Orleans is vested with the power and authority
13to serve all notices, subpoenas, papers, writs, and orders and to make proper return
14thereto to the Criminal District Court for the Parish paish of Orleans.
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16§1371.2. Clerk; election; term of office; deputy clerks
17A. There shall be one clerk of the Criminal District Court for the parish of
18Orleans, who shall be elected by the qualified electors of the parish of Orleans. He
19shall be elected at the election for parochial and municipal officers in Orleans Parish,
20shall serve for a term of four years, and shall take office and begin his term on the
21first Monday in May following election.
22B. The clerk of the Criminal District Court court for the parish of Orleans
23shall appoint, with the approval of the judges of the court, such deputy clerks as are
24necessary to properly conduct the business of his office and of the court. He may
25remove them at pleasure, or the court en banc to which they are assigned may
26remove them.
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28§1373. Minute clerks and court reporters
29A.(1) The presiding judge of each section of the criminal district court for the
30parish of Orleans may appoint shall be appointed a minute clerk at an annual salary
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1of forty-eight hundred dollars, and a court reporter at an annual salary of fifty-four
2hundred dollars; the by the clerk of court in accordance with the provisions of
3R.S. 13:1211 and subject to the provisions of that Section. The salaries of the
4minute clerks and of the court reporters shall be paid by the city of New Orleans.
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6§1373.1. Minute clerks, court reporters, and deputy court reporters; salary payable
7by the state
8A. The annual salary of each of the court reporters of Sections A through L,
9both inclusive, and of the magistrate section of the Criminal District Court for the
10parish of Orleans to be paid by the state of Louisiana out of the General Fund of the
11state of Louisiana is hereby fixed at twelve thousand four hundred seventy-eight
12dollars per annum, payable monthly by the state treasurer upon the warrant of said
13court reporters and minute clerks shall be paid by the city in the same amount
14as provided for on July 1, 2026, and commencing on July 1, 2027, any amount
15previously paid by the state general fund shall be charged to the Consolidated
16Judicial Expense Fund for Orleans Parish.
17B. The annual salary of each of the deputy court reporters in Sections A, B,
18C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, and L of the Criminal District Court for the parish of
19Orleans and the deputy court reporter for the magistrate of the said court, to be paid
20by the state of Louisiana out of the General Fund of the state of Louisiana shall be
21equal to that of the court reporters as provided in Subsection A of this Section and
22shall be payable monthly by the state treasurer upon the warrant of the said deputy
23court reporter.
24C. The annual salary of each of the several minute clerks of said court, and
25the clerk who acts as minute clerk for the judges sitting as a court of appeals to be
26paid by the state of Louisiana out of the General Fund of the state of Louisiana is
27hereby fixed at fifteen thousand seven hundred ninety-one dollars per annum,
28payable monthly by the state treasurer upon the warrant of said minute clerks.
29D. The increase in salary provided herein for court reporters, deputy court
30reporters, and minute clerks, shall not be payable until state funds are made available
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1therefor.
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3§1381. Fees
4The following charges may be made for the services of the clerk of the
5criminal district court for the parish of Orleans:
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7(21) For making copies of any paper, document, or other proceeding, the
8original of which is in the custody of the clerk of the criminal district court for the
9parish of Orleans including certificate and seal thereto, for each one hundred words,
10sixty cents.
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12§1381.3. Clerk of the Criminal District Court expense fund
13There is hereby established the Clerk of the Criminal District Court Expense
14Fund for the parish of Orleans. All funds collected as clerk's fees, interest accrued
15on investments of funds by the clerk of the Criminal District Court pursuant to R.S.
1639:1271 R.S. 33:2955(A)(1), and any funds otherwise generated by the clerk of the
17Criminal District Court shall be deposited in said fund and may be expended from
18this fund for purposes of defraying the operating expenses of the clerk's office.
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20§1381.5. The Orleans Parish administration of criminal justice fund
21A. There is hereby created an Orleans Parish administration of criminal
22justice fund which shall be maintained and supervised by the criminal sheriff of the
23parish of Orleans for the purpose of collecting and distributing proceeds received
24from the annual licensing fee pursuant to R.S. 22:822.
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26(2) Each quarterly distribution shall be calculated and allocated as follows:
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28(e) Twenty percent of all funds received to the Clerk of the Criminal District
29Court Expense Fund for the parish of Orleans.
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1§1381.7. Clerk of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court
2A. The legislature finds that adequate funding of the office of Clerk of the
3Criminal District Court for the parish of Orleans is necessary for the efficient
4performance of the powers and duties required of a judicial officer of the state.
5Pursuant to the exercise of the police power of the state, actions for obtaining
6adequate funding are necessary to promote judicial efficiency and to protect and
7promote the lives, health, morals, comfort, and general welfare of people as a whole.
8The amounts to be appropriated and paid by the city of New Orleans for expenses,
9including salaries and maintenance of constitutional officers, their deputies,
10subordinates, and employees shall not be reduced by the city of New Orleans without
11the consent of the legislature expressed by approval of a proposal by the Joint
12Legislative Committee on the Budget.
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14§2515. Application for supervisory writs; stay orders
15All applications for supervisory writs of certiorari, prohibition, or mandamus
16to the Criminal District Court for the Parish parish of Orleans from the Municipal
17and Traffic Court of New Orleans shall be filed with the clerk of the Criminal
18District Court for the Parish parish of Orleans, and shall be by him allotted to the
19criminal court of appeals panel then sitting to hear appeals within that court under
20its rules, in connection with cases not appealable to the Supreme Court of Louisiana.
21No stay order shall be binding on the lower court unless at least two of such judges
22shall order such stay. The application for writs shall follow the general form and
23shall contain all documents and exhibits now required by Rule X of Rules of the
24Supreme Court of Louisiana, or as may be hereafter required under Rule X.
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26§5971. Applicability
27The judicial administrative districts authorized by this Chapter shall provide
28an optional and additional method of funding the office of the clerk for the Criminal
29District Court for the parish of Orleans, the office of the clerk of court for the Civil
30District Court for the parish of Orleans, and the office of the clerk of district court
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1for each of the other parishes.
2Section 2. R.S. 15:85.1(A)(2)(d) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
3§85.1. Posting of criminal bond; fee assessed
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5(2) The proceeds from cases in which the criminal prosecution has been
6concluded shall be distributed on a quarterly basis as follows:
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8(d) Two dollars shall be remitted to the office of the clerk of court for the
9parish, except in the parish of Orleans where two dollars shall be remitted to the
10office of the clerk of the criminal district court, or to the office of the city or
11municipal clerk of court in cases where the municipality is responsible for the
12prosecution.
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14Section 3. R.S. 18:2(3), 444(E), 602(C)(1) and (E)(2)(c), 1300.7(B), 1354(A)(1),
15 1511.2(E), and 1511.3(A)(1) are hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
16§2. Definitions
17As used in this Code, the following words and terms shall have the meanings
18hereinafter ascribed to each, unless the context clearly indicates another meaning:
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20(3) "Clerk of court" or "clerk" means the clerk of the district court, except
21that in any parish having a civil district court and a criminal district court, these
22terms mean the clerk of the criminal district court.
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24§444. Parish executive committees
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26E. Powers of the committee. The parish executive committee of a recognized
27political party may adopt rules and regulations for its government that are not
28inconsistent with the laws of this state or the rules and regulations of the state central
29committee, and it may create any committee it deems necessary. The rules and
30regulations of the parish executive committee of a recognized political party shall be
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1filed with the clerk of court within ten days after their adoption. In parishes which
2have a civil and a criminal district court, the rules and regulations of a parish
3executive committee shall be filed with the clerk of the criminal district court.
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5§602. Vacancies in certain local and municipal offices; exceptions
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7C.(1) When a vacancy occurs in any of the following offices, the duties of the
8office shall be assumed by the person hereinafter designated: (a) district attorney, by
9the first assistant; (b) clerk of a district court, by the chief deputy; (c) coroner, by the
10chief deputy; (d) sheriff, by the chief criminal deputy, except that in a parish that has
11both a civil sheriff and a criminal sheriff, the civil sheriff by the chief civil deputy,
12and the criminal sheriff, by the chief criminal deputy, respectively; and (e) tax
13assessor, by the chief deputy assessor.
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17(c) Within twenty-four hours after issuing the proclamation, the authority or
18authorities ordering the special election shall send a copy of the proclamation, by
19certified or registered mail, to the clerk of the district court for the parish in which
20the vacancy occurred. If the vacancy occurred in the parish of Orleans, the copy of
21the proclamation shall be so mailed to the clerk of the criminal district court. If the
22vacancy occurs in an office which affects more than one parish, a copy of the
23proclamation shall at the same time be so mailed to the clerk of each of the parishes.
24A copy of the proclamation also shall be mailed to the secretary of state at the same
25time and in the same manner.
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27§1300.7. Governor to order election; proclamation; publication
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29B. Within twenty-four hours after issuing the proclamation, the governor
30shall send a copy of the petition and proclamation, by registered or certified mail, to
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1the clerk of the district court for each parish in which the election is to be held. If the
2election is to be held in Orleans Parish, the city of New Orleans, the copy of the
3petition and proclamation shall be mailed to the clerk of the criminal district court.
4A copy of the petition and proclamation also shall be sent to the secretary of state.
5Within twenty-four hours after he receives the copies, the secretary of state shall
6notify all other election officials having any duty to perform in connection with a
7recall election, including the parish board of election supervisors for the parish or
8parishes in which the election is held. Immediately after receipt of the proclamation,
9the secretary of state shall publish the proclamation in the official journal of each
10parish in which the election is to be held.
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12§1354. Parish custodian of voting machines; powers and duties; appointment of
13deputy custodians
14A.(1) The clerk of the district court is ex officio parish custodian of voting
15machines in each parish, except that in any parish having a civil and a criminal
16district court the clerk of the criminal district court is ex officio parish custodian of
17voting machines. The parish custodian of each parish shall assist the secretary of
18state in the performance of his functions within the parish.
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20§1511.2. Supervisory committee; rulemaking authority; advisory opinions; inquiries
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22E. The supervisory committee shall prepare and distribute to the general
23public through the offices of the clerks of court and in Orleans Parish the office of
24the clerk of the criminal district court and on its website, booklets of explanation and
25instruction concerning the provisions of this Chapter in such a manner as to inform
26the public of the procedures and requirements of this Chapter. The supervisory
27committee may publish and distribute additional material to assist persons in
28complying with the provisions of this Chapter.
29§1511.3. Filing of reports; forms; notice
30A.(1) All reports required by this Chapter shall be filed with the supervisory
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1committee as otherwise provided in this Chapter on forms provided by the
2supervisory committee. The supervisory committee shall prepare forms for all
3reports required by this Chapter in conformity with the requirements of this Chapter
4and shall cause such forms to be printed and sufficient copies thereof furnished to
5the clerks of court and in Orleans Parish to the clerk of the criminal district court,
6who shall make them available to all persons required to file reports under the
7provisions of this Chapter. All forms shall contain instructions directing the person
8filing with whom to file reports. It is the intent of the legislature that the supervisory
9committee shall provide forms in a simple format in conformity with the
10requirements of this Chapter.
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12Section 4. The provisions of this Act shall not reduce the current term of office of the
13 clerk of criminal district court for the parish of Orleans on the effective date of this Act. The
14 office of clerk of criminal district court for the parish of Orleans shall be abolished at the end
15 of May 3, 2026, and before the term of any other criminal clerk of court begins. Immediately
16 thereafter, the authority, functions, duties, and responsibilities of the office of clerk of
17 criminal district court for the parish of Orleans, and all of the books, papers, records, monies,
18 actions, and other property of every kind and description, movable and immovable, real and
19 personal, possessed, controlled, or used by the office of the clerk of criminal district court
20 for the parish of Orleans shall be transferred and owned, possessed, controlled, and used by
21 the clerk of the civil district court for the parish of Orleans, who shall thereafter be referred
22 to as the clerk of court for the parish of Orleans.
23Section 5. Whenever the clerk of the criminal district court for the parish of Orleans
24 is referred to or designated by law, rule, or regulation on and after the date that office is
25 abolished, such reference or designation shall be deemed to apply to the clerk of civil district
26 court for the parish of Orleans or hereafter "clerk of court for the parish of Orleans".
27Section 6. R.S. 13:1031, 1033, 1371, 1371.1, and 1378 are hereby repealed in their
28 entirety.
29Section 7. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not
30 signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature
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1 by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If
2 vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become
3 effective on the day following such approval.
  PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
  SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
  GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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