(a) Each person found guilty or responsible or who enters a plea of guilty or responsible for any charge in a city court case shall be assessed a processing fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) for each charge to cover part of the cost of processing that person's charge through the city court system.
(b) The case processing fee may be waived or suspended when such waiver would be in the interest of justice. No person who is found to be indigent by the city court shall be required to pay the case processing fee.
(c) The case processing fee 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 any criminal case, or any civil penalty in cases where a civil penalty is imposed. The city court shall set forth the requirement and amount of such case processing fee as a separate item in all orders and judgments.
(d) In addition to any other rights and remedies available to the city, the city attorney is authorized to institute any appropriate civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction for recovery of the case processing fee authorized under this section.
(Ord. No. 9851, § 1, 5-12-03; Ord. No. 10585, § 1, 10-7-08, eff. 1-1-09)