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urn: urn:us-la:rs:40:2261
citation: "R.S. 40:2261"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 40 › Chapter 13-A"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1981, number: 168, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
  - { year: 2001, number: 630, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: amendment }
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# Creation; purpose; change of name; successor to former commission

The North Louisiana Criminalistics Laboratory Commission is hereby created to maintain and operate the North Louisiana Criminalistics Laboratory, as the successor to the Northwest Louisiana Criminalistics Laboratory Commission, which has been established in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, the said commission and laboratory to serve the north Louisiana parishes of Avoyelles, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, DeSoto, Lincoln, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine, Webster, Caldwell, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Madison, Morehouse, Ouachita, Rapides, Richland, Tensas, Union, Vernon, West Carroll, and Winn, said commission to operate the North Louisiana Criminalistics Laboratory for the purpose of crime detection, prevention, investigation, and other related activities in connection with criminal investigations.