Louisiana § RS 16:641 - Additional salary of district attorney
Full text of Louisiana Louisiana Civil Code § RS 16:641 — Additional salary of district attorney, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ RS 16:641. Additional salary of district attorney
A. The district attorney of the Twenty-Ninth Judicial District of this state shall, in addition to the salary now paid him by the state of Louisiana, be paid an additional salary of not less than four thousand eight hundred dollars by the parish of St. Charles.
B. The salary shall be paid monthly to the district attorney of said Twenty-Ninth Judicial District of Louisiana on his own warrant and drawn on the secretary or treasurer of St. Charles Parish.
C. The police jury of St. Charles Parish shall annually, at the time it prepares its general budget of expenses, budget an amount sufficient to pay the additional salary herein provided.
Acts 1952, No. 69, §§1 to 3. Amended by Acts 1962, No. 279, §1; Acts 1973, No. 118, §8; Acts 1982, No. 21, §6(e), eff. Jan. 1, 1985.
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