STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 52nd Legislature (2009)

SENATE BILL 682	By:	Ballenger

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to fees; authorizing the Sheriff or jail trust to recover certain fee; stating use for certain fee; authorizing the court clerk to retain certain percent of certain fee for certain purposes; authorizing sheriff to remit certain portion of certain fee for training certain persons; providing for codification; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 153.4 of Title 28, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
In any criminal case in which a defendant is admitted into a jail facility and is subsequently convicted for a violation of state law, the sheriff or jail trust authority responsible for operating the jail facility in the county in which the conviction was obtained shall be authorized to recover a jail booking fee of Twenty-Five Dollars ($25.00).  The jail booking fee shall be used to defer any costs associated with processing the defendant into the jail facility.  The court clerk shall collect the fee amount and may retain five percent (5%) of such monies to be deposited in the Court Clerk Revolving Fund to cover administrative costs and shall remit the remainder to the Sheriff’s Service Fee Account of the sheriff or the general fund of the jail trust authority of the county in which the conviction was obtained.  The sheriff or trust authority shall remit Three Dollars ($3.00) of the booking fee to the Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association’s Training Council to be used to help defray the cost of training county deputies and detention officers.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 2009.
SECTION 3.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

52-1-1539	JT	1/14/2009 10:25:57 AM