(a) Where the city court sentences a person to a term of incarceration in the Pima County Jail, or makes a term of incarceration a condition of the person's probation for an offense, the city court shall order the person to reimburse the city for all or part of the actual incarceration costs to the city; EXCEPT THAT no person found by the city court to be indigent shall be required to reimburse the city for such incarceration costs.
(b) The city court shall determine the amount of incarceration costs to be reimbursed to the city based on the actual per diem per person cost of incarceration incurred by the city and on the person's ability to pay all or part of the incarceration costs.
(c) The reimbursement of incarceration costs provided for in this section is hereby declared to be a cost recovery measure, administrative in nature, separate from and in addition to any sentence or probation conditions imposed by the city court in the criminal case. The city court shall set forth the requirement and amount of such reimbursement of incarceration costs as a separate item in all orders and judgments.
(d) In addition to any other rights and remedies available to the city, where a person fails to reimburse the city for costs of incarceration in accordance with an order of the city court pursuant to this section the city attorney is authorized to institute any appropriate civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction for recovery of such costs of incarceration.
(Ord. No. 8557, § 1, 8-7-95)