A. In order to help recover the costs of conducting hearings related to apparent failures to follow the orders of the city court, a Court Compliance Recovery Fee in the amount of $50 shall be assessed against persons who have been determined by the court, after notice and opportunity to be heard, to have failed to comply with the orders of the court without good cause.
B. There is hereby created a Court Compliance Recovery Fund which will provide a funding source to help recover the costs of the city court’s enforcement efforts and will also help ensure that the court possesses the resources to devote adequate attention to fulfilling its responsibility to ensure compliance with its orders, and the Court Compliance Recovery Fee will be deposited into this Fund.
C. The Court Compliance Recovery Fund shall be established as a designated fund account with the city finance department. The city court shall collect Court Compliance Recovery Fees and deposit them in the Court Compliance Recovery Fund account. The city finance department shall invest the monies in the fund in the same manner as city funds. Interest earned on fund monies shall be deposited in the Fund.
D. The city court shall administer the Fund and shall make expenditures from the fund for the purposes provided in this section. Monies from the Fund shall supplant monies already provided to the city court for the general purposes stated in this section.
E. A city judge may waive all or a portion of the Court Compliance Recovery Fee when the judge determines that such waiver would be in the interest of justice, or after finding that the person has a substantial financial hardship or is indigent based on sworn testimony or affidavits of the person.
(Ord. 1397.02.13 § 1, 2014)