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Infraction, penalties.

Any person guilty of an infraction when a penalty is not otherwise specified shall: (1) For the first offense be fined not more than one hundred dollars; (2) upon a second conviction for the same infraction within a two-year period be fined not less than one hundred dollars and not more than three hundred dollars; and (3) upon a third or subsequent conviction for the same infraction within a two-year period be fined not less than two hundred dollars and not more than five hundred dollars.

Sentencing alternatives--Credit for time in custody--Diagnostic testing

1. After a defendant has been convicted of a felony, the court may order the defendant to repay all or part of any reward paid by a qualified local program. . . . 2. "A qualified local program" means a program approved by the attorney general to receive repayment of rewards. The attorney general shall consider the organization, continuity, leadership, community support, and general conduct of the program to determine whether the repayments will be spent to further crime prevention purposes of the program.

Judgment for fines--Court administration fee--Community service supervision fee--Special funds--Docketing and enforcement

Of the additional one hundred dollar court administration fee, the first seven hundred fifty thousand dollars collected per biennium must be deposited in the indigent defense administration fund, which must be used for indigent defense services in this state, and the next four hundred sixty thousand dollars collected per biennium must be deposited in the court facilities improvement and maintenance fund. After the minimum thresholds have been collected, one-half of the additional court administration fee must be deposited in each fund.

Books of account to be kept by officers

Each of the officers named in the preceding section [§ 59-1-29] shall keep full and regular accounts, subject at all times to the examination of the county court [county commission], or tribunal in lieu thereof, the State Tax Commissioner or any individual, of all sums charged or collected by such officers on account of official fees, costs, percentages, penalties, commissions, allowances, compensation, income and all other perquisites of whatever kind, and such book of accounts shall be a part of the records of the respective offices herein named belonging to the county, and shall be trans