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Dear Mr. Stutes:

This office is in receipt of your opinion request regarding the procedural requirements for a district attorney to dispose of forfeited property under the Louisiana Drug Racketeering Act, LSA-R.S. 15:1351 et seq. Specifically, you raise the following question:

Whether the district attorney may dispose of such forfeited property by notarial act upon receipt of a commercially feasible offer by a private citizen, with allocation of the proceeds from the sale of the disposed property to the law enforcement agencies recognized by virtue of the original judgment of forfeiture?

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