RS 16:513 Assistant district attorneys
§513. Assistant district attorneys
A. The offices of first, second, third, fourth, and fifth assistant district attorney for the Twenty-Third Judicial District are hereby created. Each assistant district attorney shall receive the same annual salary from the state, payable monthly by the state treasurer on his own warrant, as is provided by law for all other assistant district attorneys.
B. The third assistant district attorney shall be assigned to the Parish Court for the parish of Ascension to prosecute criminal cases and represent the state in civil and juvenile matters before said court, including investigations, appeals, writs, and other matters incidental thereto, subject to the supervision of the district attorney for the Twenty-Third Judicial District. However, said district attorney may himself, or through another of his assistant district attorneys, prosecute such cases and represent the state in such matters in addition to or in lieu of the third assistant district attorney. The third assistant district attorney shall not prosecute criminal cases or represent the state in civil or juvenile matters in trials in any court other than the Twenty-Third Judicial District Court in and for the parish of Ascension and the Parish Court for the parish of Ascension.
C. The fifth assistant district attorney shall represent the state only in those criminal, civil, and juvenile matters prosecuted or instituted in the parish of St. James, including investigations, appeals, writs, and other matters incidental thereto. He shall act as the regular attorney and counsel only to those political subdivisions in the parish of St. James as is required of the district attorney in R.S. 16:2. Said assistant district attorney shall be subject to the supervision of the district attorney for the Twenty-Third Judicial District. The district attorney may himself or through another of his assistant district attorneys represent the state or political subdivisions in the parish of St. James in addition to or in lieu of representation by the fifth assistant district attorney.
Amended by Acts 1966, No. 185, §1; Acts 1976, No. 307, §5, eff. Jan. 3, 1977; Acts 1979, No. 146, §1; Acts 1981, No. 806, §1.