Session Laws Chapter 160

ENTITLED, An Act to increase liquidated court costs.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

Section 1. That § 23-3-52 be amended to read as follows:

23-3-52. In addition to any other penalty, assessment, or fine provided by law, there shall be levied liquidated costs in the amount of ~~twenty-seven~~ thirty dollars for partial reimbursement to state government and its subdivisions for law enforcement and judicial expenses incurred in providing the personnel, training, and facilities relative to the criminal justice system and to the 911 emergency reporting system, on each conviction for the following:

If a fine is suspended in whole or in part, the liquidated costs for law enforcement and training may not be reduced, except that the judge may waive all or any part of the payment of liquidated costs which would work a hardship on the person convicted or on the person's immediate family.

Section 2. That § 23-3-53 be amended to read as follows:

23-3-53. After a determination by the court of the amount due, the clerk of courts shall collect the amount due and transmit such amount monthly to the state treasurer. The state treasurer shall place ~~seventeen~~ twenty dollars of the ~~twenty-seven-dollar~~ thirty dollar fee into the law enforcement officers training fund, six dollars of the ~~twenty-seven-dollar~~ thirty dollar fee into the court appointed attorney and public defender payment fund, two dollars of the ~~twenty-seven-dollar~~ thirty dollar fee into the court appointed special advocates fund, one dollar of the ~~twenty-seven-dollar~~ thirty dollar fee into the 911 telecommunicator training fund, and one dollar of the ~~twenty-seven- dollar~~ thirty dollar fee into the abused and neglected child defense fund.