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A. Any recovery of civil penalties for injury to fish, wild birds, wild quadrupeds, and other wildlife and aquatic life shall be immediately deposited to the Conservation Fund of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and credited to the enforcement emergency situation response account within the fund. If the balance in the enforcement emergency situation response account at the end of any fiscal year is one hundred thousand dollars or more, then no monies derived from civil penalties for injury to fish, wild birds, wild quadrupeds or other wildlife and aquatic life shall be deposited into the account until such time as the balance in the account at the end of a fiscal year is less than one hundred thousand dollars.
B. In any civil action brought by the district attorney pursuant to R.S. 56:40.4, the office of the district attorney shall receive forty percent of the amount collected.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 56, § 40.9. Disposition of recovery - last updated January 01, 2023 | https://codes.findlaw.com/la/revised-statutes/la-rev-stat-tit-56-sect-40-9/
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