06 LC 21
8635S
House
Bill 902 (COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE)
By:
Representative Stephens of the
164th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend an Act creating the State Court of Bryan County (formerly the City Court
of Pembroke), approved January 10, 1938 (Ga. L. 1937-38 Ex. Sess., p. 714), as
amended, so as to authorize the court to impose an additional surcharge for each
criminal fine imposed; to specify the uses to which said surcharge may be put;
to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other
purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
An
Act creating the State Court of Bryan County (formerly the City Court of
Pembroke), approved January 10, 1938 (Ga. L. 1937-38 Ex. Sess., p. 714), as
amended, is amended by designating the current provisions of Section 9 as
subsection (a) thereof and adding a new subsection (b) to read as
follows:
∀(b)
The clerk of the State Court of Bryan County shall be entitled to charge and
collect a juvenile diversion program surcharge equal to 10 percent of each
criminal fine imposed in each citation or accusation for which a defendant is
found guilty or enters a plea of guilty, nolo contendere, or other plea
resulting in the imposition of a fine in the State Court of Bryan County. The
moneys collected as a result of the juvenile diversion program surcharge shall
be used exclusively to provide for creating, implementing, and staffing a
juvenile diversion program for Bryan County. The funds collected pursuant to
this authorization shall be maintained in a segregated fund by the clerk of
court and shall be used only for the purposes authorized in this subsection at
the direction of the judge of the
court.∀
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective on July 1, 2006.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.