24. A judge may authorize service otherwise than as in this division where circumstances so require.
Where a judge’s authorization is required under this division, the prosecutor or the person who must serve the proceeding may obtain the authorization from a judge of the district where service is to be made if it is not the district where the proceeding is issued or from a judge of the judicial district referred to in the second paragraph of article 187 or the second paragraph of article 218.3.
1987, c. 96, a. 24; 1995, c. 51, s. 4; 2005, c. 27, s. 1; 2020, c. 122020, c. 12, s. 91.