§1805. Crimes to which Chapter applies

A. The board may make an award and order the payment of reparations for pecuniary loss in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter for personal injury, death, or catastrophic property loss resulting from any act or omission to act that is defined as a misdemeanor under any local ordinance or as a crime under state or federal law and involves the use of force or the threat of the use of force or any human trafficking-related offense.

B.(1) For the purposes of this Chapter, the operation of a motor vehicle, boat, or aircraft that results in personal injury or death shall not constitute a crime unless the personal injury or death was intentionally inflicted through the use of such vehicle, boat, or aircraft, or was caused by an operator in violation of R.S. 14:98, 98.1, or 100.

(2) "Intentionally inflicted" includes, but is not limited to personal injury or death resulting due to operation of a motor vehicle, boat, or aircraft used to flee the scene of a crime in which the operator of the motor vehicle, boat, or aircraft knowingly participated.

(3) "Human trafficking-related offense" shall include the perpetration or attempted perpetration of R.S. 14:46.2 or 46.3 or any other crime involving commercial exploitation including R.S. 14:81.1, 81.3, 82, 82.1, 82.2, 83, 83.1, 83.2, 83.3, 83.4, 84, 85, 86, 89.2, 104, 105, and 282.

C. For the purposes of this Chapter, a person shall be deemed to have committed a criminal act or omission notwithstanding that by reason of age, insanity, drunkenness, or other reason he was legally incapable of committing a crime.

Added by Acts 1982, No. 250, §1, eff. July 17, 1982. Acts 1984, No. 844, §2, eff. July 13, 1984; Acts 1985, No. 542, §1; Acts 1987, No. 474, §1; Acts 1989, No. 255, §1; Acts 1989, No. 306, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1296, §6, eff. July 15, 1997; Acts 2014, No. 564, §4.