HOUSE BILL 1078

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2005

INTRODUCED BY

Daniel P. Silva

AN ACT

RELATING TO MISDEMEANOR PENALTY ASSESSMENTS; EXPANDING THE ASSESSMENT FOR COSTS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT CORRECTIONS; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE NMSA 1978.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     Section 1. Section 66-8-116.3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1989, Chapter 318, Section 35, Laws 1989, Chapter 319, Section 14 and Laws 1989, Chapter 320, Section 5, as amended) is amended to read:

     "66-8-116.3. PENALTY ASSESSMENT MISDEMEANORS--ADDITIONAL FEES.--In addition to the penalty assessment established for each penalty assessment misdemeanor, there shall be assessed:

          A. [in a county without a metropolitan court] twenty dollars ($20.00) to help defray the costs of local government corrections;

          B. a court automation fee of ten dollars ($10.00);

          C. a traffic safety fee of three dollars ($3.00), which shall be credited to the traffic safety education and enforcement fund;

          D. a judicial education fee of two dollars ($2.00), which shall be credited to the judicial education fund;

          E. a brain injury services fee of five dollars ($5.00), which shall be credited to the brain injury services fund; and

          F. a court facilities fee as follows:

     in a county with a metropolitan court. . . . . . . $24.00;

     in any other county. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00."

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