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- RS 15:499 · Certificates of analysis
- RS 15:500 · Admissibility
- RS 15:501 · Notice of opposing party and opportunity to cross-examine expert; certification of subpoena request
- RS 15:502 · Testimony by simultaneous broadcast
- RS 15:511 · Court reporters, retention and destruction of notes and recordings of criminal cases
- RS 15:521 · Certificates of official driving records
- RS 15:522 · Admissibility
- RS 15:523 · Notice of opposing party and opportunity to cross-examine expert; certification of subpoena request
- RS 15:529.1 · Sentences for second and subsequent offenses; certificate of warden or clerk of court in the state of Louisiana as evidence
- RS 15:529.2 · Intensive parole supervision for certain habitual offenders
- RS 15:535 · Blood and saliva testing; AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases; victim's testing and services
- RS 15:536 · Definitions
- RS 15:537 · Sentencing of sexual offenders; serial sexual offenders
- RS 15:538 · Conditions of probation, parole, and suspension or diminution of sentence
- RS 15:539 · Notification by school superintendents of allegations of the commission of a sex offense
- RS 15:539.1 · Forfeited property related to certain sex crimes; exempt property; allocation of forfeited property
- RS 15:539.2 · Survivor Special Fund
- RS 15:539.3 · Mandatory restitution
- RS 15:539.4 · Fines related to solicitation of prostitutes and purchase of commercial sexual activity
- RS 15:540 · Findings; purpose
- RS 15:541 · Definitions
- RS 15:541.1 · Posting of the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline; content; languages; notice; civil penalty
- RS 15:542 · Registration of sex offenders and child predators
- RS 15:542.1 · Notification of sex offenders and child predators
- RS 15:542.1.1 · In-person periodic renewal of registration by offenders
- RS 15:542.1.2 · Duty of offenders to notify law enforcement of change of address, residence, or other registration information
- RS 15:542.1.3 · Procedures for offenders convicted or adjudicated under the laws of another state, or military, territorial, foreign, tribal, or federal law; procedures for Louisiana offenders with out-of-state activities
- RS 15:542.1.4 · Failure to register and notify as a sex offender or child predator; penalties
- RS 15:542.1.5 · State Sex Offender and Child Predator Registry; duties of the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information
- RS 15:542.1.6 · Repealed by Acts 2009, No. 205, §2.
- RS 15:542.1.7 · Court records; disclosure
- RS 15:543 · Duties of the courts, sheriffs, and the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and the office of juvenile justice; informing the offender of the registration and notification requirements
- RS 15:543.1 · Written notification by the courts; form to be used
- RS 15:543.2 · Sex offenders; emergency situations
- RS 15:544 · Duration of registration and notification period
- RS 15:544.1 · Petitions for injunctive relief or declaratory judgments
- RS 15:544.2 · Registration and notification period end date; determination; procedures
- RS 15:545 · Duty of law enforcement
- RS 15:545.1 · Duty of interactive computer service
- RS 15:546 · Release of information
- RS 15:547 · Committee on parole
- RS 15:548 · Dissemination policy
- RS 15:549 · Notification of release or escape of inmate
- RS 15:550 · Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 2, §1.
- RS 15:551 · Harboring or concealing a sexual offender, sexually violent predator, or child predator; penalties
- RS 15:552 · Sexual Predator Apprehension Team
- RS 15:553 · Prohibition of employment for certain sex offenders
- RS 15:555 · Louisiana Sexual Assault Oversight Commission; creation; membership; meetings
- RS 15:556 · Duties of the commission
- RS 15:560 · Legislative findings
- RS 15:560.1 · Definitions
- RS 15:560.2 · Louisiana Sex Offender Assessment Panel
- RS 15:560.3 · Effects of determination of status as a sexually violent predator or as a child sexual predator; lifetime registration; notification
- RS 15:560.4 · Electronic monitoring of sexually violent predators or child sexual predators
- RS 15:560.5 · Appeal of decision
- RS 15:560.6 · Rights of action
- RS 15:561 · Legislative findings
- RS 15:561.1 · Applicability
- RS 15:561.2 · Supervised release upon expiration of sentence
- RS 15:561.3 · Supervised release; division of probation and parole
- RS 15:561.4 · Duty to inform offender
- RS 15:561.5 · Conditions of supervised release
- RS 15:561.6 · Adoption of rules
- RS 15:561.7 · Failure to comply with provisions of supervised release
- RS 15:562 · Findings; purpose
- RS 15:562.1 · Definitions
- RS 15:562.2 · Powers and duties of state fire marshal
- RS 15:562.3 · Registration of arson offenders
- RS 15:562.4 · Duty of offenders to notify law enforcement of change of address, residence, or other registration information
- RS 15:562.5 · Failure to register; penalties
- RS 15:562.6 · Duration of registration and notification period
- RS 15:563 · Registration of persons convicted of child abuse or neglect
- RS 15:563.1 · Duties of the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information
- RS 15:563.2 · Duration of registration and notification period
- RS 15:563.3 · Subject to appropriation
- RS 15:563.4 · Short title
- RS 15:565 · Duty of sheriff
- RS 15:566 · Pendency of appeal, payments; delivery to penitentiary
- RS 15:566.1 · Repealed by Acts 1966, No. 310, §5, eff. Jan. 1, 1967.
- RS 15:566.2 · Commencing of sentence to state penitentiary
- RS 15:567 · Conditions precedent to execution
- RS 15:567.1 · Mental incompetence to proceed to execution
- RS 15:568 · Execution of death sentence; prior confinement of offender
- RS 15:569 · Place for execution of death sentence; manner of execution
- RS 15:569.1 · Repealed by Acts 2025, No. 193, §2, eff. June 8, 2025.
- RS 15:570 · Execution; officials and witnesses; minors excluded; time of execution; notice to victim's relatives
- RS 15:571 · Proces verbal of execution; attesting and filing
- RS 15:571.1 · Repealed by Acts 1966, No. 310, §5, eff. Jan. 1, 1967.
- RS 15:571.3 · Diminution of sentence for good behavior
- RS 15:571.3.1 · Eligibility and applicability of diminution of sentence for crimes committed on or after August 1, 2024
- RS 15:571.4 · Forfeiture of diminution of sentence
- RS 15:571.5 · Supervision upon release after diminution of sentence for good behavior; conditions of release; revocation
- RS 15:571.6 · Repealed by Acts 2011, No. 186, §4.
- RS 15:571.7 · Supervision upon release from parish prison after diminution of sentence for good behavior; conditions of release; revocation
- RS 15:571.8 · Repealed by Acts 2011, No. 186, §4.
- RS 15:571.9 · Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 138, §3.
- RS 15:571.10 · Repealed by Acts 1991, No. 138, §3.
- RS 15:571.11 · Dispositions of fines and forfeitures
- RS 15:571.12 · Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children to receive fines
- RS 15:571.13 · Supervised release of parish prisoners; rules of conduct; revocation