§1831.6. Criteria for making awards; prohibitions; authority to deny or reduce awards

            A. The board shall order the payment of reparations in an amount determined by it if, upon receipt of the application and without hearings, it finds by a preponderance of the evidence that loss was sustained by reason of death and that the loss was proximately caused by the crime of vehicular homicide, pursuant to R.S. 14:32.1.

            B. A finding by the board, for purposes of considering an application for award under this Chapter, that the charge or indictment of a crime enumerated in R.S. 46:1831.4 resulted in a loss covered by this Chapter shall be a sufficient finding with respect to the crime giving rise to the application for a reparations award.

            C. No person shall be denied or otherwise deemed ineligible for reparations pursuant to this Chapter, nor shall any award for reparations pursuant to this Chapter be reduced, on the basis that the person has any conviction or adjudication of delinquency, on the basis that the person is currently on probation or parole, or on the basis that the person has previously served any sentence of incarceration, probation, or parole unrelated to the offense for which reparations would otherwise be awarded pursuant to this Chapter.

            Acts 2023, No. 451, §2.

NOTE: Pursuant to R.S. 46:1831.16, this Chapter will terminate Aug. 1, 2027.