§996.25. Judicial Expense Fund for Fifteenth Judicial District; established
A. In addition to all other fees or costs now or hereafter provided by law, the clerk of court of the Fifteenth 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 to be determined by the judges of the district, sitting en banc, which sum shall not exceed thirty-five dollars, subject, however, to the provisions of Code of Civil Procedure Article 5181 et seq. In all criminal cases over which the Fifteenth 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 twenty dollars and which 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 the provisions of 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 Fifteenth Judicial District Court. The judges, en banc, of the Fifteenth 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.
Added by Acts 1982, No. 108, §1; Acts 2018, No. 447, §1.
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