2.30.050 Municipal Court fees.
(A) Municipal Court Enhancement Fee. Persons convicted of criminal traffic or misdemeanor offenses, or found responsible for civil traffic offenses, with an offense date of the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter or after, shall pay a Municipal Court enhancement fee plus surcharges for each offense.
(B) Municipal Court Default Cost Recovery Fee. A default cost recovery fee shall be imposed on each default judgment entered for failure to appear in a civil traffic case, or for failure to satisfy in full a civil sanction imposed in a civil traffic case.
(C) Municipal Court Warrant Cost Recovery Fee. When a City Magistrate issues a warrant for noncompliance with court orders, failure to pay a fine, or failure to pay any other fees, the City Magistrate shall impose a Municipal Court warrant cost recovery fee upon the person for whom the arrest warrant is issued, and this fee shall be added to the amount set forth in the arrest warrant.
(D) Municipal Court Deferred Prosecution Cost Recovery Fee. A deferred prosecution fee shall be imposed on each criminal charge for which the court defers prosecution pursuant to Rule 38 of the State Rules of Criminal Procedure (or its substitute).
(E) Probation Fees. The following court fees will be assessed unless, under the procedures of SLCC 2.30.030, the Magistrate determines a lesser amount based on the person’s inability to pay.
(1) Any person whose sentence or execution of a sentence is suspended by acceptance of probation and ordered to be screened for probation qualification shall pay the cost of such screening to be conducted by a court compliance officer of this court; the probation qualification fee shall be $25.00 once per case.
(2) Unsupervised Probation. The San Luis Municipal Court shall assess each defendant whose sentence or execution of a sentence is suspended by acceptance of unsupervised probation a fee of $50.00 which will be assessed once per case. A $20.00 completion verification fee shall be assessed at the successful completion of unsupervised probation. A court compliance officer shall verify compliance for completion for unsupervised probationers.
(3) Standard/Supervised Probation. The San Luis Municipal Court shall assess each defendant placed on standard probation a monitoring fee of $65.00 to be paid for each month that the defendant remains on probation. Monitoring will include activities designed to verify whether or not the probationer is successfully complying with sentencing, which may include alcohol breath tests and drug tests. For those cases which the court has ordered drug testing as part of the standard probation, the court will assess a $50.00 drug test fee, which will be assessed once per case. A $20.00 completion verification fee shall be assessed at the successful completion of probation. A court compliance officer shall conduct monitoring including alcohol breath tests, and drug tests as appropriate, and shall verify compliance for completion for standard probationers.
(4) Any and all fees collected under this section shall be deposited into the San Luis Municipal Court’s enhancement fund.
(F) Fees. All fees established by subsections (A) through (E) of this section shall be as prescribed by City Council as it deems appropriate. (Ord. 157 § 1, passed 5-12-1999; Ord. 235 §§ 1, 2, passed 11-9-2005; Ord. 255 §§ 1, 2, passed 11-28-2007; Ord. 308 §§ 1, 2, passed 9-28-2011; Ord. 345 § 1, passed 1-13-2016. Code 1982 § 5-2-6. Code 2012 § 34.05.)