(a) The Judge of the Municipal Court shall collect on behalf of the City such court costs, fees and/or fines as authorized by state law and these Codified Ordinances. There shall be added and included as additional court costs in every Municipal Court case conviction by adjudication of guilt or guilty plea or plea of nolo contendere to any violation of any ordinance, including traffic and moving violations, but excluding municipal parking ordinances, a mandatory fee of five dollars ($5.00) which shall be deposited into an account specifically for the operation and administration of a teen court program, which fees shall be collected by the Clerk of the Municipal Court, upon conviction by adjudication of guilt, guilty plea or plea of nolo contendere, who shall remit the fees to the teen court program established by the City.
(b) The Judge of the Municipal Court, in his or her discretion, may collect costs or fees on behalf of the City pursuant to guidelines adopted by the Municipal Court and filed with the City Clerk for elective alternative traffic school and for jail fees.
(Ord. 2009-23. Passed 12-21-09.)
(Ord. 2009-23. Passed 12-21-09.)
(c) There is hereby imposed a daily fee on persons sentenced to confinement in the South Central Regional Jail, when those persons have been found guilty of violating a municipal ordinance of the City of St. Albans. The daily fee shall be the equivalent in each case to the daily rate charged to the City by the South Central Regional Jail for the person incarcerated, and shall be collected prior to any other costs, penalties or fines, and may, in the discretion of the Municipal Judge, be prorated for periods of less than a day, or waived in whole, or in part by the Municipal Judge. The fee is to be used to offset the costs of housing such person in the South Central Regional Jail.
(d) (1) A municipal reinstatement fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) is hereby imposed upon a person whose driver’s (operator’s) license or privilege to operate a motor vehicle in this State is reinstated after having been suspended for not more than a year for either of the following reasons: Failure to timely pay costs, fines, forfeitures or penalties ordered to be paid by the municipal court; or default on a payment plan for such costs, fines, forfeitures or penalties.
(2) In cases where the suspension of a driver’s (operator’s) license or privilege to operate a motor vehicle in this State is reinstated after having been suspended for more than a year, a municipal reinstatement fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) is hereby imposed upon a person whose driver’s (operator’s) license or privilege to operate a motor vehicle in this State is reinstated after having been suspended for more than a year for either of the following reasons: Failure to timely pay costs, fines, forfeitures or penalties ordered to be paid by the municipal court; or default on a payment plan for such costs, fines, forfeitures or penalties.
(3) The fees imposed by this subsection are for the purpose of deferring the cost to the City associated with the administrative expenses related to suspension and reinstatement of driver’s (operator’s) licenses.
(Ord. 2009-13. Passed 9-8-09.)