0001|                            HOUSE BILL 89
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                          R. DAVID PEDERSON
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0008|      FOR THE COURTS, CORRECTIONS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE
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0009|                                   
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO MUNICIPAL COURTS; INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF THE
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0012|     COURT AUTOMATION FEE ASSESSED AND COLLECTED BY THE MUNICIPAL
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0013|     COURTS; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE
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0014|     NMSA 1978; REPEALING LAWS 1994, CHAPTER 69, SECTION 2.
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0015|     
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  Section 35-14-11 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1983,
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0018|     Chapter 134, Section 6, as amended) is amended to read:
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0019|          "35-14-11.  MUNICIPAL ORDINANCE--COURT COSTS--
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0020|     COLLECTION--PURPOSE.--
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0021|               A.  Every municipality shall enact an ordinance
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0022|     requiring assessment of corrections fees, judicial education
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0023|     fees and court automation fees to be collected as court costs
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0024|     and used as provided in this section.
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0025|               B.  As used in this subsection, "convicted" means
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0001|     the defendant has been found guilty of a criminal charge by a
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0002|     municipal judge, either after trial, a plea of guilty or a
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0003|     plea of nolo contendere.  A municipal judge shall collect the
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0004|     following costs:
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0005|                    (1)  a corrections fee of ten dollars
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0006|     ($10.00);
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0007|                    (2)  a judicial education fee of one dollar
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0008|     ($1.00); and
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0009|                    (3)  a court automation fee of <s>[three dollars
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<s></s>0010| <s>    ($3.00)]</s> <u>ten dollars ($10.00)</u>.
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0011|               C.  The fees are to be collected upon conviction
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0012|     from persons convicted of violating any ordinance relating to
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0013|     the operation of a motor vehicle or any ordinance that may be
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0014|     enforced by the imposition of a term of imprisonment.
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0015|               D.  All money collected pursuant to Paragraph (1)
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0016|     of Subsection B of this section shall be deposited in a
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0017|     special fund in the municipal treasury and shall be used for
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0018|     municipal jailer or juvenile detention officer training, for
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0019|     the construction planning, construction, operation and
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0020|     maintenance of a municipal jail or juvenile detention
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0021|     facility, for paying the cost of housing municipal prisoners
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0022|     in a county jail or housing juveniles in a detention facility
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0023|     or for complying with match or contribution requirements for
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0024|     the receipt of federal funds relating to jails or juvenile
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0025|     detention facilities.
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0001|               E.  All money collected pursuant to Paragraph (2)
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0002|     of Subsection B of this section shall be remitted monthly to
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0003|     the state treasurer for credit to the judicial education fund
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0004|     and shall be used for the education and training, including
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0005|     production of bench books and other written materials, of
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0006|     municipal judges and other municipal court employees.
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0007|               F.  All money collected pursuant to Paragraph (3)
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0008|     of Subsection B of this section shall be remitted monthly to
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0009|     the state treasurer for credit to the municipal court
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0010|     automation fund and shall be used for the purchase and
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0011|     maintenance of court automation systems in the municipal
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0012|     courts.  The court automation systems shall have the
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0013|     capability of providing, on a timely basis, electronic records
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0014|     in a format specified by the judicial information system
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0015|     council."
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0016|          Section 2.  REPEAL.--Laws 1994, Chapter 69, Section 2 is
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0017|     repealed.
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0018|          Section 3.  EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the
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0019|     provisions of this act is July 1, 1998.
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