Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 15, § 168. Judicial district indigent defender fund

B. (1)(a) Every court of original criminal jurisdiction, except in the town of Jonesville, in the city of Plaquemine, and in mayors' courts in municipalities having a population of less than five thousand, shall remit the following special costs to the district indigent defender fund for the following violations, under state statute as well as under parish or municipal ordinance, except a parking violation. Except as provided in Subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph, the sum of forty-five dollars shall be assessed in cases in which a defendant is convicted after a trial, a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, or after forfeiting bond and shall be in addition to all other fines, costs, or forfeitures imposed.

(b) In the parish of Orleans, in addition to all other fines, costs, or forfeitures imposed, the sum of forty-five dollars may be assessed in cases in which a defendant is convicted after a trial, a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, or after forfeiting bond.

(2)(a) Such amounts shall be remitted by the respective recipients thereof to the judicial district indigent defender fund monthly by the tenth day of the succeeding month.

(b) Such amounts remitted in the parish of Orleans shall include all of the following data for each case in which the costs required for in this Subsection are assessed:

(c) The office for the district public defender for the parish of Orleans shall notify the office of the inspector general, city of New Orleans, in writing, if such amounts and data required in Subparagraphs (a) and (b) of this Paragraph have not been remitted by the fifteenth day of the month.