SENATE BILL 277

50th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2011

INTRODUCED BY

Michael S. Sanchez

ENDORSED BY THE COURTS, CORRECTIONS AND JUSTICE COMMITTEE

AN ACT

RELATING TO COURTS; INCREASING THE MAGISTRATE COURTS OPERATIONS FEE.

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 also 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 three dollars ($3.00), which shall be credited to the judicial education fund;

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

          F. a juvenile adjudication fee of one dollar ($1.00), which shall be credited to the juvenile adjudication fund;

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

           H. a court facilities fee as follows:

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

in any other county. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00;

and

          I. until May 31, 2014, a magistrate courts operations fee of [four dollars ($4.00)] seven dollars ($7.00), which shall be credited to the magistrate courts operations fund."

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