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1994 SESSION

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HB 1208 Payment of fines and costs.

Introduced by: Whittington W. Clement | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Payment of fines and costs. Provides for specific procedures to collect fines and court costs and to improve the rate of recovery currently realized under the present system. Among other things, the bill restricts persons with outstanding fines and costs from registering or renewing registration of their motor vehicle, and provides for the suspension of their driving privileges as well. The bill also (i) requires the acceptance of checks and credit cards in the circuit and district courts, (ii) allows the court to require a defendant to appear in court on a future date certain to show cause for failure to pay fines/costs if there has been such a failure to pay, (iii) requires the collection of fines/costs from persons on home/electronic incarceration work release by the program administrator in the same manner as is done in jail work release programs, and (iv) requires courts to provide a community service option as a means of satisfying such fines and costs. In the event an offender on work release or home/electronic incarceration is the subject of multiple demands on his wages, the bill establishes the following priorities: (1) support orders, (2) fines, restitution or costs as ordered by the court, (3) travel and other expenses necessitated by the offender's work release or other program status, (4) defraying of the costs of keeping the prisoner, and (5) to the prisoner's account or his family.

For purposes of implementing this new system, the attorney for the Commonwealth, the Department of Taxation, the Compensation Board, and the Executive Secretary for the Supreme Court are given specific roles, along with the local clerks and jailers.


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