ACT No. 174 AN ACT
To enact R.S. 13:1336(C) and 1338, relative to the jurisdiction of the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans; to provide for commitment jurisdiction of the court when the criminal court determines a mentally defective defendant is incapable of standing trial, is a danger to himself or others, and is unlikely in the foreseeable future to be capable of standing trial; to provide for the transfer of all pending cases filed in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans; to provide for an order of transfer; to provide for delivery of the records; to grant the criminal sheriff for the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans the authority to make service and return of court processes; and to provide for related matters.
ACT No. 52 AN ACT
To enact Title XXXIII of the Code of Criminal Procedure, to be comprised of Code of Criminal Procedure Articles 941 through 956, relative to criminal procedure; to provide for emergency sessions of criminal court; to provide for definitions; to provide for applicability; to provide for criminal jurisdiction and venue in emergency sessions of court; to provide for venue for habeas corpus proceedings in certain circumstances; to provide for criteria for emergency sessions of court; to provide for the power and authority of the court conducting emergency sessions; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for powers, duties, and authority of the sheriff operating in emergency sessions of court; to provide for the powers, duties, and authority of the clerk of court of an affected court conducting emergency sessions; to provide for the authority of the district attorney and the indigent defender board of the affected court conducting emergency sessions of court; to provide with respect to the summoning of a criminal jury pool; to provide for the suspension of certain time periods, limitations, and delays in the affected court; to provide for exceptions; to provide for appeals and the application of supervisory writs from a judgment or ruling of an affected court conducting emergency sessions of court; to provide for preemption of conflicting provisions of law; to provide for the court costs, fees, and fines assessed or taxed and collected by the affected court conducting emergency sessions of court; and to provide for related matters.
