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02 LC 9 1125

House Bill 1325
By: Representatives Lunsford of the 109th, Sanders of the 107th, Cash of the 108th and Maddox of the 72nd



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend an Act creating the State Court of Henry County, approved March 27, 1998 (Ga. L. 1998, p. 3954), as amended, so as to authorize the court to charge a technology fee for each civil case filed and each criminal fine imposed; to specify the uses to which said technology fees may be put; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.
An Act creating the State Court of Henry County, approved March 27, 1998 (Ga. L. 1998, p. 3954), as amended, is amended by striking Section 6 of said Act and inserting in its place the following:

"SECTION 6.
(a) The clerk of the state court shall be entitled to charge and collect the same fees as the clerk of the superior court is entitled to charge and collect for the same or similar services. All such fees shall be paid into the county treasury, except those sums which are directed by law to be paid otherwise.
(b) The clerk of the state court shall be entitled to charge and collect a technology fee to be set by the court in an amount not to exceed $5.00 for the filing of each civil action and not to exceed $5.00 as a surcharge to each fine paid. Technology fees shall be used exclusively to provide for the technological needs of the court. Such uses shall include only the following:
(1) Computer hardware and software purchases;
(2) Lease, maintenance, and installation of computer hardware and software; and
(3) Purchase, lease, maintenance, and installation of imaging, scanning, facsimile, communications, projection, and printing equipment and software.
The funds collected pursuant to this subsection shall be maintained in a segregated fund by the clerk of the court and shall be used only for the purposes authorized in this subsection at the direction of the chief judge of the court."

SECTION 2.
This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2002.

SECTION 3.
All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.