Assessment and Collection of Sums; Deposit Into County Jail Fund; Failure to Remit Sums

The sums provided for in Code Section 15-21-93 shall be assessed and collected by the clerk or court officer charged with the duty of collecting moneys arising from fines and forfeited bonds and shall be paid over to the governing authority of the county in which the court is located or, in the case of a municipality which has contracted for jail services, to the governing authority of the county with which the municipality has contracted by the tenth day of the month following the month in which such sums are collected.

Collection of Fines and Authorized Expenditures of Funds from County Drug Abuse Treatment and Education Fund

The sums provided for in Code Section 15-21-100 shall be collected by the clerk or court officer charged with the duty of collecting moneys arising from fines and forfeited bonds and shall be paid over to the governing authority of the county in which the court is located upon receipt of the fine and assessment if paid in full at the time of sentencing or upon receipt of the final payment if the fine is paid in installments.

Fees

The judges or clerks of the probate courts of this state shall be entitled to charge and collect the sums enumerated in this Code section.

Fines; tribal law enforcement activities

1. Civil and criminal fines.  Except as provided in subsection 2, a fine for a civil violation, traffic infraction or Class D or Class E crime imposed for a violation of any tribal or state law must be remitted to the Passamaquoddy Tribe or the Penobscot Nation, as appropriate, when a tribal law enforcement agency issued the ticket, complaint, summons or warrant or made the arrest related to the violation.

Criminal and Traffic Assessment Act - Assessment Schedules: Schedule 1; generic felony offenses

SCHEDULE 1: Unless assessments are imposed by the court under another schedule of this Act, for a felony offense, the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall collect $549 and remit as follows:

(1) As the county’s portion, $354 to the county treasurer, who shall deposit the money as follows:

(A) $20 into the Court Automation Fund;

(B) $20 into the Court Document Storage Fund;

(C) $5 into the Circuit Court Clerk Operation and Administrative Fund;

(D) $255 into the county’s General Fund;

(E) $10 into the Child Advocacy Center Fund;

Source of Revenues - Allocation of Moneys

(1)  Each juvenile who is convicted as an adult of a violent crime shall be required to pay a surcharge to the clerk of the court in which the conviction occurs in an amount equal to any fine imposed by such court. (2)  The clerk of the court shall allocate the surcharge required by subsection (1) of this section as follows:(a) (I)  Five percent shall be retained by the clerk for administrative costs incurred pursuant to this section.

Criminal Justice Administrative Fees: Recovery of criminal justice administration fee from arrested person

Any city, special district, school district, community college district, college, university, or other local arresting agency whose officer or agent arrests a person is entitled to recover any criminal justice administration fee imposed by a county from the arrested person if the person is convicted of any criminal offense related to the arrest.

Proceedings in Misdemeanor and Infraction Cases: Establishment of task force; Task force responsibilities and duties; Chairperson; Membership; Report

(a) On or before June 30, 2011, the Judicial Council shall establish a task force to evaluate criminal and traffic-related court-ordered debts imposed against adult and juvenile offenders. The task force shall be comprised of the following members:(1) Two members appointed by the California State Association of Counties. (2) Two members appointed by the League of California Cities. (3) Two court executives, two judges, and two Administrative Office of the Courts employees appointed by the Judicial Council. (4) One member appointed by the Controller.

Proceedings in Misdemeanor and Infraction Cases: Allocation of fines and forfeitures collected under SNO-PARK permit program

Notwithstanding Section 1463, out of the moneys deposited with the county treasurer pursuant to Section 1463, there shall be transferred once a month into the State Treasury to the credit of the Winter Recreation Fund an amount equal to 50 percent of all fines and forfeitures collected during the preceding month upon conviction or upon the forfeiture of bail from any person of any violation of Section 5091.15 of the Public Resources Code, and an amount equal to the remaining 50 percent shall be transferred to the county general fund and deposited in a special account which shall be used exc

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