Louisiana § RS 46:1854 - Persons eligible for awards
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§ RS 46:1854. Persons eligible for awards
A. The following persons shall be eligible to have a judgment or reparations award satisfied from an escrow account provided for by this Chapter:
(1) A victim of the defendant's crime or the parent or legal guardian of a minor who is the victim of the defendant's crime.
(2) A surviving spouse, parent, grandparent, sibling, or child, including posthumous children, of a victim who died as a direct result of the defendant's crime.
(3) Any person, except a law-enforcement officer engaged in the performance of his duties, who is injured or killed while trying to prevent the defendant's crime from occurring in his presence, or trying to apprehend the defendant during the course of the crime.
(4) A surviving spouse, parent, grandparent, sibling, or child, including posthumous children, of any person, except a law-enforcement officer engaged in the performance of his duties, who dies as a direct result of trying to prevent the defendant's crime from occurring in his presence, or trying to apprehend the defendant during the course of the crime.
(5) Any other person legally dependent for his principal support from the victim who dies as a result of the defendant's crime, or legally dependent for his principal support from any person who dies as a direct result of trying to prevent the defendant's crime from occurring in his presence, or trying to apprehend the defendant during the course of the crime.
B. A person who is criminally responsible for the crime upon which a claim is based, or an accomplice or accessory of such person, shall not be eligible to receive an award under the provisions of this Chapter.
C. A resident of Louisiana who is the victim of a defendant's crime occurring outside of Louisiana and any other person as defined in Subsection A of this Section who is injured as a result of a defendant's crime occurring outside of Louisiana shall be eligible for an award pursuant to this Chapter if the following conditions are met:
(1) The person would be eligible for an award had the crime occurred in Louisiana.
(2) The state, country, or territory in which the crime occurred does not have a victims' compensation program deemed eligible pursuant to the provision of the federal Victims of Crime Act, Chapter 112 of Title 42 of the United States Code, and does not compensate nonresidents.
Acts 2012, No. 799, §3, eff. June 13, 2012.
Source: official Louisiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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