REPORT TITLE:
Traffic Fines, Counties


DESCRIPTION:
Provides    % of the traffic fines generated in each county shall
go to that county.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           1527
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO TRAFFIC FINES.
 


BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 291C-171, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended to read as follows:
 
 3      "�291C-171  Disposition of fines and forfeitures.(a)  All
 
 4 fines and forfeitures collected upon conviction or upon the
 
 5 forfeiture of bail of any person charged with a violation of any
 
 6 section or provision of the state traffic laws and all
 
 7 assessments collected relating to the commission of traffic
 
 8 infractions shall be paid to the director of finance of the
 
 9 State[.] and shall be distributed by the director as follows:
 
10           per cent of all fines, forfeitures, and assessments
 
11 generated within a county shall be transferred to that county,
 
12 excluding monetary penalties resulting from offenses under
 
13 section 291-4, 291-4.3, and 291-4.4.  No later than forty-five
 
14 days after the close of each calendar quarter, the director of
 
15 finance for the State shall deposit into the general fund of each
 
16 county the fines, forfeitures, and assessments collected by the
 
17 district courts in that county in the percentage prescribed in
 
18 this section.
 
19      (b)  In addition to any monetary assessment imposed for a
 

 
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 1 traffic infraction, the court may impose penalties on all
 
 2 outstanding traffic citations and judgments.  The penalties shall
 
 3 be established pursuant to rules approved by the supreme court;
 
 4 provided that the amounts of the penalties shall be based upon a
 
 5 graduated scale that increases in proportion to the length of the
 
 6 delinquency.  Any interest penalty imposed as provided in this
 
 7 section may be waived by the court for good cause.  All penalties
 
 8 collected for such outstanding citations and judgments shall be
 
 9 paid to the director of finance of the State[.] and distributed
 
10 after collection as provided in subsection (a)."
 
11      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
12 New statutory material is underscored.
 
13      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.
 
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15                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________