§ 9-17. Service enhancement fee.

(a)

There is hereby created a service enhancement fee, which shall be used exclusively to enhance the operational and program capabilities in the provision of non-mandatory criminal justice services by the city attorney's office for criminal defendants who choose to benefit from those services.

(b)

The service enhancement fee shall be a surcharge, which shall be in addition to any other penalty assessment provided by law, and shall be a penalty assessment levied in the amount of ten dollars ($10.00) on every fine, penalty and forfeiture imposed and collected by the courts for criminal offenses and any civil penalty imposed and collected for a civil traffic violation which shall be applied by the city court on all fines, sanctions, penalties and assessments imposed by the city court except for those involving civil parking. The service enhancement fee shall also apply to fees collected for court authorized diversion programs as defined in Section 9-7.2.

(c)

The city court shall collect enhancement fees and deposit them in the city's general fund.

(Ord. No. 4152, § 1, 5-13-14)