§254.7. Compensation of off-duty law enforcement officers; City Court of East St.
Tammany
Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, city or state police officer, or other law enforcement
officer subpoenaed to testify in a traffic, criminal, or juvenile case before the City Court of
East St. Tammany on a date or at a time when such officer is off duty shall be paid the sum
of twenty-five dollars per subpoena per day by the clerk of the City Court of East St.
Tammany. The clerk of the City Court of East St. Tammany shall transmit the fees due
under this Section to the law enforcement officer's employer within thirty days after the
officer qualifies for the fee. The employer shall be responsible for calculating and
withholding all requisite deductions for taxes and for transferring or remitting all sums of
employee withholdings to the appropriate taxing authorities, on behalf of the law
enforcement officer and, within thirty days after receipt of the funds, for making payment of
the appropriate net amount to the law enforcement officer. Compensation allowed law
enforcement officers as witnesses in accordance with the provisions of this Section shall not
be deemed to be in lieu of, or to constitute any portion of, the salary or compensation paid
to such law enforcement officers for the performance of the duties of their jobs, nor shall the
payment of such witness fees be taken into consideration in determining the salary, any salary
increase, or any supplemental pay by the state to which any law enforcement officer is or
becomes entitled. As a condition precedent to receipt of the compensation provided in this
Section, the law enforcement officer and his superior shall be required to certify to the clerk
of the City Court of East St. Tammany that the officer was summoned to testify on a day
while he was off duty and did in fact appear in court as commanded in the subpoena. The
maximum allowable fee to be received by an officer on any given day when he is summoned
in an off-duty status will be seventy-five dollars, no matter how many summons he receives
for that specific day. Said sum shall be in addition to any other compensation the law
enforcement officer is eligible to receive. When the fee is for the testimony of an off-duty
law enforcement officer employed by public safety services of the Department of Public
Safety and Corrections, the fee shall be paid directly to public safety services.
Added by Acts 2001, No. 46, §1; Acts 2005, No. 96, §2, eff. January 1, 2006; Acts
2020, No. 205, §2, eff. June 11, 2020.