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.
La. R.S. 15:592
Submission of fingerprints and identification data
Acts 1981, No. 449, §1, eff
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