SUBPART C. CLERK

§1211. Qualifications; duties; bond; collection of fees; deputies; minute clerks

            The qualifications and duties of the Orleans clerk of court shall be as now fixed by law. He shall furnish bond in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, which shall be examined by the court, and all testimony given in the examination shall be reduced to writing and filed of record in the court. He shall charge and collect the fees prescribed by the legislature until superseded by those fixed by the court. The clerk is authorized to appoint deputies and other assistants and he may remove them at pleasure. Each judge of the civil district court and criminal district court shall be appointed, subject to the rules of the court to which they are assigned, one minute clerk, who shall be sworn as deputy clerk, and shall receive a salary as the executive committee of the Consolidated Judicial Expense Fund for Orleans Parish may fix. The salaries currently paid by the City of New Orleans shall be continued at the current amount until the executive committee certifies there are sufficient funds to pay them. When directed by the court, a minute clerk shall administer the oath required by law of all witnesses and jurors.

            Amended by Acts 1977, No. 44, §1; Acts 2006, No. 621, §19(B), eff. when the clerk of the 41^st JDC takes office; Acts 2012, No. 474, §4(B)(2); Acts 2026, No. 15, §1, eff. April 30, 2026.