Louisiana Code — 15
Browse 893 sections in division 15 of the Louisiana code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § CC 2642. Assignability of rights
- § RS 15:30. Returns
- § RS 15:31. Confiscation and destruction of gambling devices
- § RS 15:31.1. Antique slot machines
- § RS 15:32. Disposition of money used as evidence in criminal cases
- § RS 15:33. Confiscation and destruction of criminal instruments
- § RS 15:41. Disposition of property seized in connection with criminal proceedings
- § RS 15:42. News media, restrictions on search warrants
- § RS 15:43. Attorneys; restrictions on search warrants
- § RS 15:81. Bond for release for violation of municipal ordinances; parole or release of prisoners; penalty
- § RS 15:82. Guaranteed arrest bond certificates as cash bail; forfeiture; sureties
- § RS 15:83. Bail bond contracts
- § RS 15:85. Failure to satisfy judgment of bond forfeiture
- § RS 15:85.1. Posting of criminal bond; fee assessed
- § RS 15:85.2. Posting of criminal bonds in parishes of Iberia, St. Mary, and St. Martin; fee assessed
- § RS 15:85.3. Posting of criminal bonds; Denham Springs Marshal's Office; additional fee assessed
- § RS 15: 85.4. Posting of criminal bonds; Baton Rouge City Constable's Office; additional fee assessed
- § RS 15:86. Forfeiture of cash, checks, or securities and discharge of the bail undertaking
- § RS 15:86.1. Unclaimed bail bonds; disposition; return to owner
- § RS 15:86.2. City Court of Thibodaux; unclaimed bail bonds; disposition; return to owner
- § RS 15:86.3. City courts: unclaimed bail bonds; disposition; return to owner
- § RS 15:88. Appearance bond defined
- § RS 15:89. Prescription of forfeiture judgment; revival; prescription by limitation of prosecution
- § RS 15:111. Parish of Orleans; salary of jury commissioners; vacancy; appointment of secretary
- § RS 15:112. Parish of Orleans; process servers
- § RS 15:113. Duty of Orleans registrar to furnish jury commission lists of voters added to or deleted from rolls
- § RS 15:115. Service of jury commission process; general rule
- § RS 15:116. Preparation of general venire list; assistance
- § RS 15:117. Discharge of grand jury; review of discharge by supreme court
- § RS 15:121. Authority to inspect prisons and hospitals; reports
- § RS 15:141. Short title
- § RS 15:142. Legislative findings
- § RS 15:143. Definitions
- § RS 15:146. Office of the state public defender
- § RS 15:147. Powers; duties; responsibilities
- § RS 15:148. Rulemaking; considerations in developing rules
- § RS 15:149. Authority of supreme court not affected
- § RS 15:149.1. Domicile of office; venue
- § RS 15:149.2. Offices; meetings
- § RS 15:150. Executive staff for office; general qualifications
- § RS 15:152. State public defender; qualifications; powers and duties; salary
- § RS 15:161. District public defender; powers; duties; accounting; audit reporting; existing district public defenders continued; establishment of office of the district public defender
- § RS 15:162. Vacancies in position of district public defender; formation of district public defender selection committee; powers and duties of committee; process for filling vacancy for district public defender; interim district public defender
- § RS 15:163. Regionalization of district public defender services by office
- § RS 15:164. Regional defense service centers
- § RS 15:165. Methods of delivery of public defender services; selection of methods; emergency circumstances
- § RS 15:166. Disbursement of funds
- § RS 15:167. Louisiana Public Defender Fund
- § RS 15:168. Judicial district indigent defender fund
- § RS 15:169. Representation of capital defendants
- § RS 15:170. Disciplinary action; sanctions of district public defenders; just cause; hearing
- § RS 15:173. Right of action not created
- § RS 15:174. Special reporting requirements; penalties
- § RS 15:175. Proceedings to determine indigency
- § RS 15:176. Partial reimbursement by indigents
- § RS 15:178. Appointment of appellate and post-conviction counsel in death penalty case
- § RS 15:179. Appointment of counsel at parole revocation and prerevocation hearings
- § RS 15:180. Special reporting requirements
- § RS 15:181. Limited effect
- § RS 15:182. Limited effect in capital cases
- § RS 15:183. Effect of signing of pleadings
- § RS 15:185.1. Purpose
- § RS 15:185.2. Definitions
- § RS 15:185.3. Indigent Parents' Representation Program; duties of the office; subject to appropriation
- § RS 15:185.4. Standards and guidelines for representation of indigent parents; rulemaking
- § RS 15:185.6. Special reporting requirements; indigent parent representation cases; penalties
- § RS 15:185.7. Rights of action; interpretation of Part
- § RS 15:185.8. Auditing; district reporting
- § RS 15:186.1. Purpose
- § RS 15:186.2. Definitions
- § RS 15:186.3. Safe Return Representation Program; duties of the office; subject to appropriation
- § RS 15:186.4. Standards and guidelines for representation of indigent children in custody; rulemaking
- § RS 15:186.5. Safe Return Representation Program Fund
- § RS 15:186.6. Implementation of Safe Return Representation Fund
- § RS 15:191. Place of trial of criminal neglect of family cases
- § RS 15:211. Procedures in handling defendants committed to mental institutions because of lack of capacity to stand trial
- § RS 15:221. Appointment of substitute judge by supreme court
- § RS 15:241. Medical, psychological, psychiatric examination of certain victims under age eighteen; polygraph examinations; prohibition
- § RS 15:242. Pretrial diversion for driving while intoxicated; reporting
- § RS 15:243. Buyer Beware Program; post-conviction program for offenders; pre-trial diversion program for defendants; individuals engaged in the purchase of sexual activity and solicitation of prostitutes
- § RS 15:244. Military pretrial diversion program
- § RS 15:252. Witnesses' fees and mileage
- § RS 15:253. Witnesses not residents of parish
- § RS 15:254. Sheriffs, jurors and law enforcement officers not entitled to witness fees
- § RS 15:254.1. Compensation of off-duty law enforcement officers; City Court of New Iberia
- § RS 15:254.2. Compensation of off-duty law enforcement officers; Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Lafayette Parish
- § RS 15:254.3. Compensation of off-duty law enforcement officers; City Court of Lafayette
- § RS 15:254.4. Compensation of off-duty law enforcement officers; Twenty-Seventh Judicial District Court, St. Landry Parish
- § RS 15:254.5. Plans for witness fees to off-duty law enforcement officers; Ascension Parish
- § RS 15:254.6. Compensation of off-duty law enforcement officers; mayor's court, town of Welsh
- § RS 15:254.7. Compensation of off-duty law enforcement officers; City Court of East St. Tammany
- § RS 15:254.8. Compensation of off-duty law enforcement officers; mayor's court, town of Vinton
- § RS 15:254.9. Compensation of off-duty law enforcement officers; parish of Plaquemines
- § RS 15:255. Witness fees to off-duty law enforcement officers
- § RS 15:255.1. Witness fees to retired or former law enforcement officers
- § RS 15:256. Fees where more than one case on same day
- § RS 15:257. Placing material witness under bond; exception for victims
- § RS 15:257.1. Exception for material witness warrants for victims of sex offenses and intimate partner violence; legislative intent
- § RS 15:258. Taking deposition of witness imprisoned in default of bond
- § RS 15:259. Admissibility of depositions taken in jail
- § RS 15:260. Production of certain records of a victim; conditions
- § RS 15:261. Disposition of witness or appearance fees for off-duty law enforcement officers
- § RS 15:270. Interpreters for deaf or severely hearing-impaired persons
- § RS 15:271. Plea of not guilty; burden of proof
- § RS 15:272. Order for substitution of certified copy of missing document
- § RS 15:273. Right of accused to be confronted with witnesses
- § RS 15:276. Self-incrimination of witness
- § RS 15:283. Protected person; testimony taken outside courtroom
- § RS 15:284. Facility dogs; use in court; procedure
- § RS 15:291. Right of accused to have testimony taken down; provision for paying
- § RS 15:301. Remittance of fine or imprisonment
- § RS 15:301.1. Sentences without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence; correction
- § RS 15:302. Sentences to prison districts; persons excluded
- § RS 15:303. Maximum fine or imprisonment when not specified
- § RS 15:304. Expenses to be paid by parishes; juror's fee in city of New Orleans
- § RS 15:305. Probation in neglect of family cases
- § RS 15:306. Operating a vehicle while intoxicated; additional conditions of probation; ignition interlock devices
- § RS 15:307. Ignition interlock devices; installation and certification
- § RS 15:307.1. Ignition interlock affordability
- § RS 15:308. Ameliorative penalty provisions; retroactivity; amendment of sentence; time limitations
- § RS 15:321. Purpose; duties of the commission; conducting of evaluation of sentencing structure; report
- § RS 15:322. Louisiana Sentencing Commission
- § RS 15:323. Composition of commission
- § RS 15:324. Officers; meetings; staff
- § RS 15:325. Twenty-Second Judicial District Court; sentencing policy
- § RS 15:326. Administration of presentence investigation assessment tool and evaluation report
- § RS 15:327. Use of assessment tool and report
- § RS 15:423. Proof of registration of physicians and surgeons
- § RS 15:424. Statute law of other states
- § RS 15:425. Recitals in report of lunacy commissions
- § RS 15:426. Proof of signature of articles of vessels
- § RS 15:427. Recitals in act of protest of commercial paper
- § RS 15:428. Dishonored checks and drafts prima facie evidence of insufficient funds in bank
- § RS 15:429. Corporate existence presumed unless affidavit of denial filed before trial
- § RS 15:430. Proof of truth of recitals in copy of registry of birth, baptism or circumcision
- § RS 15:431. Theft by public officer
- § RS 15:432. Effect of legal presumptions; rebutting evidence; illustrations
- § RS 15:433. Conclusive presumption defined; illustration
- § RS 15:436.1. Photographs of objects of theft; affidavit of value and ownership; notice to defendant
- § RS 15:436.2. Photographs of animals cruelly treated; affidavit of condition; notice to defendant
- § RS 15:438. Circumstantial evidence
- § RS 15:439. Burden of proof
- § RS 15:440. Relative weight of positive and negative testimony
- § RS 15:440.1. Purpose
- § RS 15:440.2. Authorization
- § RS 15:440.3. Videotape; admissibility; exception to hearsay rule
- § RS 15:440.4. Method of recording videotape; competency
- § RS 15:440.5. Admissibility of videotaped statements; discovery by defendant
- § RS 15:440.6. Confidentiality
- § RS 15:440.7. Admissibility in civil, family, and administrative proceedings; discovery; confidentiality
- § RS 15:440.8. Confidentiality of records; child advocacy centers
- § RS 15:441.1. DNA, blood, and saliva testing; relevance
- § RS 15:444. Proof of intent unnecessary in statutory crimes; inadmissible evidence
- § RS 15:449. Applicability
- § RS 15:450. Use of confession, admission or declaration in entirety
- § RS 15:451. Condition precedent to use of confession; free and voluntary rule
- § RS 15:452. Rights of arrested person as to confession
- § RS 15:453. Confessions obtained by questions and answers
- § RS 15:454. Inapplicability of free and voluntary rule to admissions not involving criminal intent
- § RS 15:455. Effect of declarations and acts of coconspirators
- § RS 15:459. Use of records or documents of trial court as evidence
- § RS 15:468. Duty to testify as to bribery or corruptly influencing voters; immunity
- § RS 15:469.1. Receipt of testimony from victims of certain crimes who are fifteen years of age or younger; closed session of court or in chambers; procedure
- § RS 15:471. Grand jurors and district attorneys incompetent to testify as to grand jury proceedings; perjury cases
- § RS 15:477.1. Privileged communications to "crime stoppers" organizations
- § RS 15:477.2. Privileged communications; public records exception for state governmental agencies; citizens hotline for alleged fraud, abuse, or wrongdoing
- § RS 15:499. Certificates of analysis
- § RS 15:500. Admissibility
- § RS 15:501. Notice of opposing party and opportunity to cross-examine expert; certification of subpoena request
- § RS 15:502. Testimony by simultaneous broadcast
- § RS 15:511. Court reporters, retention and destruction of notes and recordings of criminal cases
- § RS 15:521. Certificates of official driving records
- § RS 15:522. Admissibility
- § RS 15:523. Notice of opposing party and opportunity to cross-examine expert; certification of subpoena request
- § RS 15:529.1. Sentences for second and subsequent offenses; certificate of warden or clerk of court in the state of Louisiana as evidence
- § RS 15:529.2. Intensive parole supervision for certain habitual offenders
- § RS 15:535. Blood and saliva testing; AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases; victim's testing and services
- § RS 15:536. Definitions
- § RS 15:537. Sentencing of sexual offenders; serial sexual offenders
- § RS 15:538. Conditions of probation, parole, and suspension or diminution of sentence
- § RS 15:539. Notification by school superintendents of allegations of the commission of a sex offense
- § RS 15:539.1. Forfeited property related to certain sex crimes; exempt property; allocation of forfeited property
- § RS 15:539.2. Survivor Special Fund
- § RS 15:539.3. Mandatory restitution
- § RS 15:539.4. Fines related to solicitation of prostitutes and purchase of commercial sexual activity
- § RS 15:540. Findings; purpose
- § RS 15:541. Definitions
- § RS 15:541.1. Posting of the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline; content; languages; notice; civil penalty
- § RS 15:542. Registration of sex offenders and child predators
- § RS 15:542.1. Notification of sex offenders and child predators
- § RS 15:542.1.1. In-person periodic renewal of registration by offenders
- § RS 15:542.1.2. Duty of offenders to notify law enforcement of change of address, residence, or other registration information
- § RS 15:542.1.3. Procedures for offenders convicted or adjudicated under the laws of another state, or military, territorial, foreign, tribal, or federal law; procedures for Louisiana offenders with out-of-state activities
- § RS 15:542.1.4. Failure to register and notify as a sex offender or child predator; penalties
- § RS 15:542.1.5. State Sex Offender and Child Predator Registry; duties of the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information
- § RS 15:542.1.7. Court records; disclosure
- § RS 15:543. Duties of the courts, sheriffs, and the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and the office of juvenile justice; informing the offender of the registration and notification requirements
- § RS 15:543.1. Written notification by the courts; form to be used
- § RS 15:543.2. Sex offenders; emergency situations
- § RS 15:544. Duration of registration and notification period
- § RS 15:544.1. Petitions for injunctive relief or declaratory judgments
- § RS 15:544.2. Registration and notification period end date; determination; procedures
- § RS 15:545. Duty of law enforcement
- § RS 15:545.1. Duty of interactive computer service
- § RS 15:546. Release of information
- § RS 15:547. Committee on parole
- § RS 15:548. Dissemination policy
- § RS 15:549. Notification of release or escape of inmate
- § RS 15:551. Harboring or concealing a sexual offender, sexually violent predator, or child predator; penalties
- § RS 15:552. Sexual Predator Apprehension Team
- § RS 15:553. Prohibition of employment for certain sex offenders
- § RS 15:555. Louisiana Sexual Assault Oversight Commission; creation; membership; meetings
- § RS 15:556. Duties of the commission
- § RS 15:560. Legislative findings
- § RS 15:560.1. Definitions
- § RS 15:560.2. Louisiana Sex Offender Assessment Panel
- § RS 15:560.3. Effects of determination of status as a sexually violent predator or as a child sexual predator; lifetime registration; notification
- § RS 15:560.4. Electronic monitoring of sexually violent predators or child sexual predators
- § RS 15:560.5. Appeal of decision
- § RS 15:560.6. Rights of action
- § RS 15:561. Legislative findings
- § RS 15:561.1. Applicability
- § RS 15:561.2. Supervised release upon expiration of sentence
- § RS 15:561.3. Supervised release; division of probation and parole
- § RS 15:561.4. Duty to inform offender
- § RS 15:561.5. Conditions of supervised release
- § RS 15:561.6. Adoption of rules
- § RS 15:561.7. Failure to comply with provisions of supervised release
- § RS 15:562. Findings; purpose
- § RS 15:562.1. Definitions
- § RS 15:562.2. Powers and duties of state fire marshal
- § RS 15:562.3. Registration of arson offenders
- § RS 15:562.4. Duty of offenders to notify law enforcement of change of address, residence, or other registration information
- § RS 15:562.5. Failure to register; penalties
- § RS 15:562.6. Duration of registration and notification period
- § RS 15:563. Registration of persons convicted of child abuse or neglect
- § RS 15:563.1. Duties of the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information
- § RS 15:563.2. Duration of registration and notification period
- § RS 15:563.3. Subject to appropriation
- § RS 15:563.4. Short title
- § RS 15:565. Duty of sheriff
- § RS 15:566. Pendency of appeal, payments; delivery to penitentiary
- § RS 15:566.2. Commencing of sentence to state penitentiary
- § RS 15:567. Conditions precedent to execution
- § RS 15:567.1. Mental incompetence to proceed to execution
- § RS 15:568. Execution of death sentence; prior confinement of offender
- § RS 15:569. Place for execution of death sentence; manner of execution
- § RS 15:570. Execution; officials and witnesses; minors excluded; time of execution; notice to victim's relatives
- § RS 15:571. Proces verbal of execution; attesting and filing
- § RS 15:571.3. Diminution of sentence for good behavior
- § RS 15:571.3.1. Eligibility and applicability of diminution of sentence for crimes committed on or after August 1, 2024
- § RS 15:571.4. Forfeiture of diminution of sentence
- § RS 15:571.5. Supervision upon release after diminution of sentence for good behavior; conditions of release; revocation
- § RS 15:571.7. Supervision upon release from parish prison after diminution of sentence for good behavior; conditions of release; revocation
- § RS 15:571.11. Dispositions of fines and forfeitures
- § RS 15:571.12. Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children to receive fines
- § RS 15:571.13. Supervised release of parish prisoners; rules of conduct; revocation
- § RS 15:571.15. Venue
- § RS 15:571.21. Deposit of fees and assessments
- § RS 15:571.22. Limitation of liability; release of information
- § RS 15:571.31. Alternatives to traditional imprisonment; findings; purposes
- § RS 15:571.33. Extension or alteration of pilot; approval of the budget committee; statewide implementation
- § RS 15:571.34. Alternative to traditional imprisonment; prisoners who are elderly or infirm
- § RS 15:571.35.1. Lafourche Parish Pretrial Home Incarceration Program; electronic monitoring
- § RS 15:571.36. Electronic monitoring equipment
- § RS 15:571.37. Electronic monitoring programs
- § RS 15:571.38. Violation of electronic monitoring conditions
- § RS 15:571.41. Purpose
- § RS 15:571.42. Definitions
- § RS 15:571.43. Job intervention programs
- § RS 15:571.44. Stipulations; advice by court
- § RS 15:571.45. Probation agreement
- § RS 15:571.46. Probation
- § RS 15:571.47. Employer participation; report
- § RS 15:571.48. Successful completion: effects
- § RS 15:571.49. Discharge and dismissal; effects
- § RS 15:571.50. Written guidelines
- § RS 15:571.51. Evaluation of program effectiveness
- § RS 15:571.52. Record of participation
- § RS 15:571.61. Post-Release Facilities pilot program; legislative findings; establishment; rules promulgation; reporting
- § RS 15:572. Powers of governor to grant reprieves and pardons; automatic pardon for first offender; payment of court costs required
- § RS 15:572.1. Board of Pardons; membership; domicile; session; quorum
- § RS 15:572.3. Powers of the board
- § RS 15:572.4. Board of Pardons; rules, regulations, and procedures; notice; restrictions on applications; time periods for additional review
- § RS 15:572.5. Information to be provided to Board of Pardons
- § RS 15:572.6. Finality of clemency determinations
- § RS 15:572.7. Representation of applicants before board; prohibitions
- § RS 15:572.8. Compensation for wrongful conviction and imprisonment; petition process; compensation; proof; assignment of powers and duties
- § RS 15:572.9. Avery C. Alexander Act; application process
- § RS 15:573. Sessions of Board of Pardons open
- § RS 15:573.1. Prohibited contact with Board of Pardons; penalties; public record
- § RS 15:573.2. Teleconference communications by certain persons
- § RS 15:574. Adoption of rules by Board of Pardons
- § RS 15:574.1. Expenses of members of Board of Pardons; reimbursement
- § RS 15:574.2. Committee on parole, Board of Pardons; membership; qualifications; vacancies; compensation; domicile; venue; meetings; quorum; panels; powers and duties; transfer of property to committee; representation of applicants before the committee; prohibitions
- § RS 15:574.2.1. Prohibited contact with committee on parole; penalties; public record
- § RS 15:574.3. Personnel and reports to be furnished by the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to the committee on parole; reports to be provided to the Board of Pardons; intensive incarceration and intensive parole supervision program data compilation; annual report
- § RS 15:574.4. Parole; eligibility; juvenile offenders
- § RS 15:574.4.1. Parole consideration and hearings
- § RS 15:574.4.2. Decisions of committee on parole; nature, order, and conditions of parole; rules of conduct; infectious disease testing