HB 1435: Mount Airy, Town of; Municipal Court; authorize assessment and collection of a technology fee

House Bill 1435 (AS PASSED HOUSE AND SENATE)

By: Representatives Anderson of the 10th and Erwin of the 32nd

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

To authorize the assessment and collection of a technology fee by the Municipal Court of the Town of Mount Airy; to identify the authorized uses of such fee; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

(a) The clerk of the Municipal Court of the Town of Mount Airy is authorized to charge and collect a technology fee as a surcharge to each criminal and quasi-criminal fine paid to the court. The technology fee shall be set by order of the judge of the court, provided that the fee shall not exceed $10.00. Such fee shall be used exclusively to provide for the following technological needs of the court. Such uses shall include only the following:

(1) The purchase, lease, maintenance, and installation of computer hardware and software; and

(2) The purchase, lease, maintenance, and installation of equipment and software used for imaging, scanning, facsimile, communications, projections, and printing.

(b) Funds collected pursuant to this section shall be maintained in a segregated account by the chief financial officer of the town and the clerk of court, separate from other funds of the town, and shall be expended only for purposes authorized in this section upon direction of the town manager. The funds may be used to reimburse the town's information technology department for services provided to the court.

SECTION 2.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.