Louisiana

Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure + R.S. Title 15

1,828 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 15:1199.22 — Purpose; authorization of Post-Conviction Veterans Mentor Program
• § 15:1199.23 — Definitions
• § 15:1199.24 — Post-Conviction Veterans Mentor Program for incarcerated veterans; eligibility criteria
• § 15:1199.25 — Mentor program for Veterans Court probation program; job assistance
• § 15:1199.26 — Transitional facilities
• § 15:1199.3 — Definitions
• § 15:1199.4 — Reentry Advisory Council; creation; members; powers and duties
• § 15:1199.5 — Administration of program; purposes
• § 15:1199.6 — Adoptions of regulations
• § 15:1199.7 — Inmate eligibility for program; prohibitions
• § 15:1199.8 — Eligible inmate selection and participation in program
• § 15:1199.9 — Workforce development work release for participants and graduates of program administered by the department
• § 15:1201 — LOUISIANA COMMISSION ON LAW
• § 15:1202 — Composition of commission
• § 15:1203 — Officers; meetings
• § 15:1204 — Functions
• § 15:1204.1 — Correctional coordination; duties of agency
• § 15:1204.2 — Creation of system; functions; powers; duties
• § 15:1204.3 — Report to the system; duties of persons and agencies
• § 15:1204.4 — Studies; surveys; report
• § 15:1204.5 — Penalties
• § 15:1205 — State Law Enforcement Planning Agency
• § 15:1206 — Composition of State Law Enforcement Planning Agency
• § 15:1207 — Functions of the staff
• § 15:1208 — Office of Peace Officer Standards and Training; program director
• § 15:1209 — Law enforcement planning district agencies
• § 15:121 — Authority to inspect prisons and hospitals; reports
• § 15:1210 — Law enforcement planning district advisory councils; composition
• § 15:1211 — Purpose and function of advisory councils
• § 15:1212 — Creation of database; functions
• § 15:1212.1 — Report to the system; duties of persons and agencies
• § 15:1220 — Authorization
• § 15:1221 — Information system's plan
• § 15:1222 — Staffing; funding; powers; and duties of policy boards
• § 15:1223 — Crime Victims Reparations Board
• § 15:1224 — Drug Abuse Education and Treatment Fund; creation; purpose
• § 15:1226 — Juvenile Delinquency and Gang Prevention Act of 1993
• § 15:1227 — Juvenile boot camp clearinghouse
• § 15:1228 — Integrated Criminal Justice Information System Policy Board
• § 15:1228.1 — Purposes
• § 15:1228.10 — Electronic submission of criminal justice data; ICJIS broker system
• § 15:1228.2 — Actions of the policy board
• § 15:1228.3 — Membership
• § 15:1228.4 — Expenses
• § 15:1228.5 — Officers; meetings
• § 15:1228.6 — Component systems
• § 15:1228.7 — Authorization
• § 15:1228.8 — Cooperation; other agencies
• § 15:1228.9 — Impaired Driver Tracking System; purpose; procedure
• § 15:1229 — Automated victim notification system
• § 15:1229.1 — Reports to the system; duties of persons and agencies
• § 15:1231 — Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 743, §7, eff. July 1, 2010.
• § 15:1232 — Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 743, §7, eff. July 1, 2010.
• § 15:1233 — Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 743, §7, eff. July 1, 2010.
• § 15:1234 — Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 743, §7, eff. July 1, 2010.
• § 15:1235 — Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 743, §7, eff. July 1, 2010.
• § 15:1236 — Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 743, §7, eff. July 1, 2010.
• § 15:1237 — Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 743, §7, eff. July 1, 2010.
• § 15:1251 — PARISH JAIL FACILITIES
• § 15:1252 — Statement of purpose
• § 15:1253 — Powers and duties of the commission
• § 15:1254 — Grant funds; appropriation; distribution and allocation of grant funds
• § 15:1255 — Applications for grants; eligibility; standards; procedures
• § 15:1256 — Program review; reports; on-site inspections
• § 15:1301 — ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE
• § 15:1302 — Definitions
• § 15:1303 — Interception and disclosure of wire, electronic, or oral communications
• § 15:1304 — Manufacture, distribution, or possession of wire, electronic, or oral communication intercepting devices prohibited
• § 15:1305 — Confiscation of wire or oral communication intercepting devices
• § 15:1306 — Immunity of witnesses
• § 15:1307 — Prohibition of use as evidence of intercepted wire or oral communications
• § 15:1308 — Authorization for interception of wire, electronic, or oral communications
• § 15:1309 — Authorization for disclosure and use of intercepted wire, electronic, or oral communications
• § 15:1310 — Procedure for interception of wire, electronic, or oral communications
• § 15:1311 — Reports concerning intercepted wire, electronic, or oral communications
• § 15:1312 — Recovery of civil damages authorized
• § 15:1312.1 — Assistance in installation and use of a wire, oral, or electronic intercepting device
• § 15:1313 — Pen registers, trap and trace devices, and cellular tracking devices; use prohibited
• § 15:1314 — Application for an order for a pen register or a trap and trace device
• § 15:1315 — Issuance of an order for a pen register or a trap and trace device
• § 15:1316 — Assistance in installation and use of a pen register, a trap and trace device, or a cellular tracking device
• § 15:1317 — Application for an order for use of a cellular tracking device
• § 15:1318 — Issuance of an order for a cellular tracking device
• § 15:1351 — Short title
• § 15:1352 — Definitions
• § 15:1353 — Prohibited activities
• § 15:1354 — Penalties
• § 15:1355 — Arrest; warrant
• § 15:1356 — Civil remedies
• § 15:1401 — CRIMINAL STREET GANGS
• § 15:1402 — Legislative findings and declaration
• § 15:1403 — Criminal street gangs and patterns of criminal street gang activity; prohibitions and criminal penalties
• § 15:1403.1 — Solicitation of membership in a criminal street gang; penalty
• § 15:1404 — Definitions
• § 15:1405 — Premises used by criminal street gang; nuisances; actions for injunction, abatement, and damages; other remedies for unlawful use; exceptions
• § 15:1405.1 — Civil cause of action by state and political subdivisions against criminal street gangs
• § 15:1405.2 — Possession of firearms, ammunition, and dangerous weapons by criminal street gangs; forfeiture
• § 15:1405.3 — Notification of the release of a member of a criminal street gang
• § 15:1406 — Mutual aid activities; labor organizations
• § 15:1407 — Local laws; no preemption
• § 15:141 — Short title
• § 15:142 — Legislative findings
• § 15:1421 — JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND
• § 15:1422 — Legislative findings and declaration
• § 15:1423 — Definitions
• § 15:1424 — Juvenile delinquency and gang prevention advisory boards; membership
• § 15:1425 — Purposes
• § 15:1426 — Powers and duties
• § 15:1427 — Establishment
• § 15:1428 — Delinquency prevention plan; programs; grants
• § 15:1429 — Grant application procedures
• § 15:143 — Definitions
• § 15:1430 — Restrictions
• § 15:144 — Repealed by Acts 2007, No. 307, §11.
• § 15:1441 — Short title
• § 15:1442 — Louisiana Juvenile Jurisdiction Planning Implementation Committee; composition; authority; responsibilities
• § 15:145 — Repealed by Acts 2007, No. 307, §11.
• § 15:145.1 — Repealed by Acts 2007, No. 307, §11.
• § 15:146 — Office of the state public defender
• § 15:1461 — Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 119, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.
• § 15:1462 — Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 119, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.
• § 15:1463 — Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 119, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.
• § 15:1464 — Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 119, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.
• § 15:147 — Powers; duties; responsibilities
• § 15:148 — Rulemaking; considerations in developing rules
• § 15:149 — Authority of supreme court not affected
• § 15:149.1 — Domicile of office; venue
• § 15:149.2 — Offices; meetings
• § 15:150 — Executive staff for office; general qualifications
• § 15:1501 — Citation
• § 15:1502 — Legislative findings and declaration
• § 15:1503 — Definitions
• § 15:1504 — Mandatory reports and immunity
• § 15:1505 — Contents of report and agency to receive report
• § 15:1506 — Receipt of reports
• § 15:1507 — Investigation of reports, assessment, actions taken, and court orders
• § 15:1508 — Petition for hearing, criminal proceedings, and subpoenas
• § 15:1509 — Hearing
• § 15:151 — Repealed by Acts 2024, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 22, §3, eff. March 20, 2024.
• § 15:1510 — Implementation
• § 15:1511 — Emergency protective services; ex parte order
• § 15:152 — State public defender; qualifications; powers and duties; salary
• § 15:153 — Repealed by Acts 2024, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 22, §3, eff. March 20, 2024.
• § 15:154 — Repealed by Acts 2024, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 22, §3, eff. March 20, 2024.
• § 15:155 — Repealed by Acts 2024, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 22, §3, eff. March 20, 2024.
• § 15:156 — Repealed by Acts 2024, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 22, §3, eff. March 20, 2024.
• § 15:157 — Repealed by Acts 2024, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 22, §3, eff. March 20, 2024.
• § 15:158 — Repealed by Acts 2024, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 22, §3, eff. March 20, 2024.
• § 15:159 — Repealed by Acts 2024, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 22, §3, eff. March 20, 2024.
• § 15:160 — Repealed by Acts 2024, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 22, §3, eff. March 20, 2024.
• § 15:1601 — Repealed
• § 15:1602 — Repealed
• § 15:1603 — Repealed
• § 15:1604 — Repealed
• § 15:1605 — Repealed
• § 15:1606 — Repealed
• § 15:1607 — Repealed
• § 15:1608 — Repealed
• § 15:1609 — Repealed
• § 15:161 — District public defender; powers; duties; accounting; audit reporting; existing district public defenders continued; establishment of office of the district public defender
• § 15:1610 — Repealed
• § 15:1611 — Repealed
• § 15:1612 — Repealed
• § 15:1613 — Repealed
• § 15:1614 — Repealed
• § 15:162 — Vacancies in position of district public defender; formation of district public defender selection committee; powers and duties of committee; process for filling vacancy for district public defender; interim district public defender
• § 15:162.1 — Repealed by Acts 2024, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 22, §3, eff. March 20, 2024.
• § 15:163 — Regionalization of district public defender services by office
• § 15:164 — Regional defense service centers
• § 15:165 — Methods of delivery of public defender services; selection of methods; emergency circumstances
• § 15:166 — Disbursement of funds
• § 15:167 — Louisiana Public Defender Fund
• § 15:168 — Judicial district indigent defender fund
• § 15:169 — Representation of capital defendants
• § 15:170 — Disciplinary action; sanctions of district public defenders; just cause; hearing
• § 15:171 — (Reserved).
• § 15:172 — (Reserved)
• § 15:173 — Right of action not created
• § 15:174 — Special reporting requirements; penalties
• § 15:175 — Proceedings to determine indigency
• § 15:176 — Partial reimbursement by indigents
• § 15:177 — (Reserved)
• § 15:178 — Appointment of appellate and post-conviction counsel in death penalty case
• § 15:179 — Appointment of counsel at parole revocation and prerevocation hearings
• § 15:180 — Special reporting requirements
• § 15:181 — Limited effect
• § 15:182 — Limited effect in capital cases
• § 15:183 — Effect of signing of pleadings
• § 15:184 — Reserved
• § 15:185.1 — Purpose
• § 15:185.2 — Definitions
• § 15:185.3 — Indigent Parents' Representation Program; duties of the office; subject to appropriation
• § 15:185.4 — Standards and guidelines for representation of indigent parents; rulemaking
• § 15:185.5 — Repealed by Acts 2018, No. 612, §22, eff. July 1, 2020.
• § 15:185.6 — Special reporting requirements; indigent parent representation cases; penalties
• § 15:185.7 — Rights of action; interpretation of Part
• § 15:185.8 — Auditing; district reporting
• § 15:185.9 — Repealed by Acts 2024, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 22, §3, eff. March 20, 2024.
• § 15:186.1 — Purpose
• § 15:186.2 — Definitions