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SENATE BILL NO. 775
Offered January 12, 2011
Prefiled December 21, 2010
A BILL to amend and reenact § 19.2-353.5 of the Code of
Virginia, relating to interest on unpaid fines and costs.
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Patrons-- Marsh; Delegate: Dance
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Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 19.2-353.5 of the Code of Virginia is
amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 19.2-353.5. Interest on fines and costs.
No interest shall accrue on any fine or costs imposed in a
criminal case or in a case involving a traffic infraction for a period of forty 40
days from the date of the final judgment imposing such fine or costs or during
any period the defendant is incarcerated as a result of that case. Interest on fines and costs imposed by judgments in
other criminal cases or cases involving a traffic infraction that have accrued for any period the defendant was incarcerated shall be purged upon
submission to the court of documentation establishing such incarceration using
a form prepared by the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court. In
no event shall interest accrue in such cases during any period in which a fine,
costs, or both a fine and costs are being paid in deferred or installment
payments pursuant to an order of the court. Whenever interest on any unpaid
fine or costs accrues, it shall accrue at the judgment rate of interest set
forth in § 6.1-330.54 6.2-302.
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