17-10-8. Payment of fine in felony case; rebate or refund of fine not permitted upon revocation of probation.

Ga. L. 1957, p. 477, § 1; Ga. L. 1964, p. 496, § 1; Ga. L. 1979, p. 848, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1408, § 1; Ga. L. 2018, p. 550, § 2-7/SB 407. The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, substituted the present provisions of this Code section for the former provisions, which read: ‘‘In any case where the judge may, by any law so authorizing, place on probation a person convicted of a felony, the judge may in his discretion impose a fine on the person so convicted as a condition to such probation. The fine shall not exceed $100,000.00 or the amount of the maximum fine which may be imposed for conviction of such a felony, whichever is greater. In any case where probation is revoked, the defendant shall not be entitled to any rebate or refund of any part of the fine so paid.’’

Probation generally, T. 42, C. 8.

For article surveying judicial developments in Georgia Criminal Law, see 31 Mercer L. Rev. 59 (1979). For article on the 2018 amendment of this Code section, see 35 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 45 (2018).