05 LC
18 3887/AP
House
Bill 413 (AS PASSED HOUSE AND SENATE)
By:
Representatives Amerson of the
9th
and Reece of the
27th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
authorize the Probate Court of Lumpkin County to charge a technology fee for
each criminal fine imposed; to specify the uses to which said technology fees
may be put; to provide for review and reports; to provide for adjustment of such
fee; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other
purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
(a)
The clerk of the Probate Court of Lumpkin County shall be entitled to charge and
collect a technology fee to be set by the probate court in the amount of $8.00
as a surcharge to each fine paid in a criminal or traffic case before the
probate court. Technology fees shall be used exclusively to provide for the
technological needs of the probate court. Such uses shall include only the
following:
(1)
Computer hardware and software purchases;
(2)
Lease, maintenance, and installation of computer hardware; and
(3)
Purchase, lease, maintenance, and installation of imaging, scanning, facsimile,
communications, projection, and printing equipment and software.
(b)
The funds collected pursuant to this section shall be maintained in a segregated
fund by the clerk of the probate court and shall be used only for the purposes
authorized in this section at the direction of the judge of the probate
court.
(c)
The clerk shall collaborate with the finance director of Lumpkin County to
ensure the effective implementation of this Act.
(d)
At the end of each calendar year, the finance director shall provide a detailed
report of all income and expenditures of the fund to the probate judge and to
the governing authority of Lumpkin County.
(e)
Beginning July 1, 2007, and every two years thereafter, the finance director
shall review the fund history and any excess sums not expended or earmarked for
the purposes specified in this Act shall be paid into the general fund of the
county.
(f)
On July 1, 2006, the finance director and the judge of the probate court shall
review the fund history and the probate judge shall be authorized, with the
advice and consent of the governing authority of Lumpkin County, to set the
technology fee at an even dollar figure less than $8.00 by an order filed with
the clerk of the probate court.
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective on July 1, 2005.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.