---
urn: urn:us-la:rs:15:592
citation: "R.S. 15:592"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 15 › Chapter 6"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1981, number: 449, section: 1, effective_date: 1981-07-01, role: enactment }
  - { year: 1991, number: 106, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: amendment }
---

# Submission of fingerprints and identification data

Each law enforcement agency empowered to arrest or take into custody any individual described in R.S. 15:590 shall obtain and forward to the bureau two sets of legible fingerprints and other identification data as required by the bureau within seventy-two hours after arrest and booking. However, this period may be extended to cover any intervening official holiday or weekend.