action shall be filed in the municipal court and shall be conducted in the same manner as civil actions in justice courts.

B. A peace officer may serve writs or other process that are issued pursuant to this section. The peace officer shall abide by the procedure for service of process that is established by court rule.

placed on probation in the county.

any underlying amount owed reasonable costs charged by the contracting agency or entity.

for civil and criminal traffic violations. 2. Assist in the enforcement of criminal traffic failure to appear offenses. B. The program established by this article shall not include collection of delinquent parking tickets.

delinquency notices, installment payment plan services, referral to the DSO/TIP program, referral to the TTEAP program, electronic skip tracing, case record data enhancement, and advanced collection services including credit bureau reporting, skip tracing, outbound calling, and wage garnishment when authorized by the court. 2. Processing of existing delinquent court cases. 3. Provision of staff support for the FARE Advisory Committee established by Administrative Order No. 2007-39. 4. Managing and directing of the FARE vendor in the provision of contracted services including all current and future program maintenance and enhancement. 5. Administering the DSO/TIP program. 6. Preparing fiscal projections and creating a budget based on those projections to fund the FARE and DSO/TIP programs. 7. Establishing a FARE fee schedule to provide for the services of the FARE and DSO/TIP programs. 8. Administering the FARE fund and expending revenues in the fund to pay the operational expenses incurred in the FARE and DSO/TIP programs. 9. Recommending allocation of excess FARE revenues in the FARE fund to the Arizona Judicial Council (AJC). 10. Maintaining operational oversight over all FARE and DSO/TIP software. 11. Maintaining oversight of data interface with the FARE vendor, the Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) the Department of Revenue (DOR) and the Arizona Lottery (AZL). 12. Overseeing the receipt of moneys from the DOR and AZL in response to finalized court claims and shall distribute those monies to the courts proportionately to the court claims processed. 13. Providing user training for the FARE and DSO/TIP programs to the courts. 14. Assisting the courts in resolving identity and data related discrepancies between the courts, the FARE vendor, MVD, DOR and AZL. 15. Ensuring connectivity between the FARE vendor, the administrative office, MVD and the local courts. The AOC shall also ensure connectivity between the administrative office and DOR.

E. General Provisions for FARE Participants. FARE participants shall: 1. Comply with the business and technical specifications established by the FARE court pioneers, available on the FARE web site. 2. Submit a court participation information form to the AOC on forms provided by the AOC when preparing to join the FARE program. 3. Be responsible for entering all applicable data into the case management system. 4. Be responsible for receipting all payments into the case management system. 5. Establish an account with a financial institution for the acceptance of funds received from Internet and telephone payments. 6. Refer all delinquent cases to the FARE vendor for special collection services, unless the court has an approved local collection plan and these cases are assigned to a vendor pursuant to the plan. The AOC shall determine which delinquent debt qualifies for special collection services according to criteria established by the AOC. 7. Transmit all FARE fees through the city or county treasurer, as appropriate, to the state treasurer. All fees collected/accumulated during the previous month shall be transmitted to the state treasurer by the fifteenth of the succeeding month.

F. General Provisions for DSO/TIP Participants. DSO/TIP participants shall: 1. Submit a DSO/TIP participant’s agreement in the form provided by the AOC. 2. Ensure that all social security number, case, person, and balance information submitted to the DSO/TIP program has been reviewed for accuracy and shall make all necessary corrections to ensure accurate and complete data is submitted timely. 3. Review interceptions by the DOR for validity within ten days of receipt. Erroneous interceptions shall be released immediately. DSO/TIP participants are responsible for all applicable DOR fees, penalties and interest per A.R.S. § 42-1122(O). 4. Finalize all interceptions within 30 days of receipt from DOR. DSO/TIP participants that do not comply with the 30-day finalization limit shall refund to the debtor any applicable DOR fees, penalties and interest incurred. 5. Receipt all valid interceptions into the case management system. 6. Remit to the AOC the DOR intercept fees upon receipt of the fee invoice.

G. Local Collection Services. 1. Courts planning expansion of existing collection services, independent of or separate from the FARE program, shall submit such plan to the AJC for approval prior to proceeding with development and implementation. 2. Courts that did not have collection services prior to August 12, 2003, shall not develop a program or contract with a private vendor for collection services without approval of the plan by the AJC. 3. Courts planning development or expansion of a collection program shall provide the AJC a report that describes the following information, at a minimum: a. A comparison of the court’s existing collection program (if any) versus expansion. b. Consistency of the local court plan with the goals of FARE. c. Replication of the current services offered by FARE. d. Replication of future services planned for FARE. 5 e. Ability of FARE to timely provide the needed services. f. Time line for implementation of the local court plan. g. Impact of subsequent transition of the court to FARE. h. Resource investment (personnel and financial) to implement the local court program. i. Efficiency of resources of local court plan. j. Opportunity for the FARE vendor to compete with other vendors for the court’s collection services needs. k. Compare the local court plan cost of collection with FARE. 4. Approval of court development or expansion plans is delegated to the administrative director in periods between AJC meetings

by a person appointed by the clerk of the district court for this purpose. If it appears that there is a necessity for such fees to be collected by persons other than the clerk of the district court or a person designated by the clerk for such purpose, the supreme court by rule or administrative order may provide for the designation of persons authorized to receive such fees. Persons so designated shall account for such fees in the same manner required of the clerk of the district court and shall pay such fees to the clerk of the district court of the county in which such fees are collected.

by the clerk for that purpose, the Supreme Court by rule or administrative order may provide for the designation of persons to receive such fines and forfeitures. Persons so designated shall account for such fines and forfeitures in the same manner required of the clerk of the district court and shall pay such fines and forfeitures to the clerk of the district court of the county in which such fines and forfeitures are collected.

services for debts owed to courts. The cost of collection shall be paid by the defendant as an administrative surcharge when the defendant fails to pay any amount ordered by the court and the court utilizes the services of a contracting agent pursuant to this section. (2) As used in this section: (a) "Contracting agent" means a person, firm or other entity who contracts to provide collection services. (b) "Cost of collection" means the fee specified in contracts to be paid to or retained by a contracting agent for collection services. (c) "Debts owed to courts" means any assessment of fines, court costs, surcharges, penalties, fees, restitution, moneys expended in providing counsel and other defense services to indigent defendants or other charges which a court judgment has ordered to be paid to the court in criminal cases, and which remain unpaid in whole or in part, and includes any interest or penalties on such unpaid amounts as provided for in the judgment or by law. (3) The supreme court may adopt rules as deemed appropriate for the administration of this section, including procedures to be used in the negotiation and execution of contracts pursuant to this section, procedures to be followed by courts which utilize collection services under such contracts, and procedures for the compromise of debts owed to courts in criminal cases. (4) Each contract entered into pursuant to this section shall specify the scope of work to be performed and provide for a fee to be paid to or retained by the contracting agent for collection services. Such fee shall be designated as the cost of collection, and shall not exceed thirty-three percent (33%) of the amount collected. The cost of collection shall be deducted from the amount collected but shall not be deducted from the debts owed to courts. (5) Contracts entered into shall provide for the payment of any amounts collected to the clerk of the district court for the court in which the debt being collected originated after first deducting the collection fee. In accounting for amounts collected from any person pursuant to this section, the district court clerk shall credit the person’s amount owed in the amount of the net proceeds collected and shall not reduce the amount owed by any person by that portion of any payment which constitutes the cost of collection pursuant to this section. (6) With the appropriate cost of collection paid to the contracting agent as agreed upon in the contract, the clerk shall then distribute the amounts collected in accordance with the law.

may use the procedures set forth in section 19-4708, Idaho Code, for the collection of the restitution

owed to the court by the juvenile offender.

may use the procedures set forth in section 19-4708, Idaho Code, for the collection of the restitution.