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Dear Chief Hickman:

This office is in receipt of your recent request for an opinion of the Attorney General in regard to whether or not the Leeville City Council can adopt an ordinance, which mandates that the City Court of Leeville collect a specific amount, to be added to the cost of court and kept in a special fund, for the purpose of funding criminal justice technology.

The disposition of fines, forfeitures, penalties and costs in city courts is treated in LSA-R.S. 13:1898 and LSA-R.S. 13:1899. LSA-R.S. 13:1898, provides, in pertinent part, as follows:

A. Except as otherwise provided by…