Where criminal fines, assessments, or restitution payments are paid through installments, a collection cost charge of three percent of the payment also must be collected by the clerk of court, magistrate, or municipal court from the defendant and transferred to the county treasurer or city treasurer, as appropriate, for deposit to credit of the county or municipal general fund.

HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 435, Section 1, eff June 1, 1992; 1994 Act No. 497, Part II, Section 36I, eff January 1, 1995.

Effect of Amendment

The 1994 amendment rewrote this section which formerly read: "Where general sessions fines or restitution payments are paid through installments, a collection cost charge of three percent of the payment also must be collected by the clerk of court from the defendant and transferred to the county treasurer for deposit to credit of the county general fund in the same manner other funds collected by the clerk of court are transferred to the county treasurer for deposit to the county general fund."