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Dear Ms. Condon:

In response to your inquiry of recent date, note that a mayor's court has no jurisdiction over DWI (driving while intoxicated) prosecutions. Pursuant to R.S. 13; 1894.1(B), a mayor's court is without authority to review such cases, as the statute pertinently provides:

B. For purposes of this Section all city, parish, and municipal courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the district courts over violations otherwise subject to their jurisdiction provided for by R.S. 14:98, except in those cases wherein the person or defendant is charged as a third or subsequent offender…