Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1097.7 – Funding for the authority; juvenile court costs
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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1097.7
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
In the parishes of Bienville, Claiborne, DeSoto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine, and Webster, in all courts exercising juvenile jurisdiction, special costs in the amount of fifty dollars shall be levied against every juvenile who is found to have committed a traffic violation or who is adjudicated a delinquent. All or part of the costs may be suspended, but any amounts thereof collected shall be remitted, by the tenth of the month following the month in which collected, by the proper officer of the court in which the matter was heard to the board of the Ware Youth Center Authority to be used for the expenses of its operations as provided in this Subpart.
Acts 1986, No. 1005, §1, eff. July 16, 1986; HCR 44, 1998 1st Ex. Sess.