Except as provided in Sections 17-15-260, 34-11-90, 50-1-150;;;MI;;0000000;, 50-1-170;;;MI;;0000000;, and 56-5-4160, on January 1, 1995, fifty-six percent of all costs, fees, fines, penalties, forfeitures, and other revenues generated by the circuit courts and the family courts, except the seventy dollar filing fee prescribed in Section 8-21-310(11)(a) must be remitted to the county in which the proceeding is instituted and forty-four percent of the revenues must be delivered to the county treasurer to be remitted monthly by the fifteenth day of each month to the State Treasurer on forms and in a manner prescribed by him. When a payment is made to the county in installments, the state's portion must be remitted to the State Treasurer by the County Treasurer on a monthly basis. The forty-four percent remitted to the State Treasurer must be deposited as follows:

1. (1) 72.93 percent to the general fund;
2. (2) 16.73 percent to the Department of Mental Health to be used exclusively for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts within the department's addiction center facilities;

3. (3) 10.34 percent to the State Office of Victim Assistance under the South Carolina Victim's Compensation Fund.

   In any court, when sentencing a person convicted of an offense which has proximately caused physical injury or death to the victim, the court may order the defendant to pay a restitution charge commensurate with the offense committed, not to exceed ten thousand dollars, to the Victim's Compensation Fund.

HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 497, Part II, Section 36A, eff January 1, 1995; 1997 Act No. 155, Part II, Section 36C, eff July 1, 1997.

Effect of Amendment

The 1997 amendment, in the first sentence of the introductory paragraph, inserted ", except the seventy dollar filing fee prescribed in Section 8-21-310(11)(a)"; and made other nonsubstantive changes.