A. A person who has been convicted of a criminal offense, petty offense, found responsible of a civil offense, or placed in a court-authorized diversion program in the city court shall pay a Court Security Fee in the amount of $20 for each offense in which they were convicted, found responsible, or the prosecution was suspended.
B. There is hereby created a Court Security Fund, which shall be for the purpose of funding the court’s security measures and the Court Security Fee will be deposited into this Fund.
C. The Court Security Fund shall be established as a designated fund account with the city finance department. The city court shall collect Court Security Fees and deposit them in the Court Security 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 solely 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. “Court-authorized diversion program,” as used in this section, means a program in which an individual charged with any civil, criminal or petty offense is not prosecuted for the offense on successful completion of an authorized diversion program and it includes authorized defensive driving courses.
(Ord. 1397.02.16 § 1, 2021; Ord. 1397.02.12 § 1, 2014)