§1384. Criminal district courts; office or positions and functions
Each criminal district court in the parish of Orleans shall have a position or office of
judicial administrator, deputy judicial administrator, and assistants, and law clerks and
secretaries for each section at amounts approved by the executive committee of the
Consolidated Judicial Expense Fund for the parish of Orleans, and shall provide for the
conduct of the jury commission and sanity hearings, the cost of all of which shall be
appropriated in the appropriation bill which provides for judicial expenses and shall be
allocated by the Judicial Budgetary Control Council to such court. The amount necessary
in excess of the amount appropriated may be charged on the Consolidated Judicial Expense
Fund or otherwise, when already required by law, shall be paid by the parish of Orleans.
Acts 2003, No. 169, §1, eff. June 2, 2003; Acts 2004, No. 701, §1, eff. July 6, 2004;
Acts 2006, No. 621, §19(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2008, No. 675, §1, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts
2008, No. 873, §1, eff. July 9, 2008; Acts 2011, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 38, §1; Acts 2011, No.
340, §2, eff. June 29, 2011; Acts 2012, No. 474, §4(B)(2); Acts 2026, No. 748, §1, eff. June
3, 2026.