§ 54-2. Additional penalties.

(a)

In every case in which the municipal court shall impose a fine, which shall be construed to include costs, for any offense against a criminal or traffic law of this state, or against an ordinance of this city, there shall be imposed by the judge of the municipal court at the time of sentencing an additional penalty in the amount set by ordinance.

(b)

The sums provided for in subsection (a) of this section shall be assessed and collected by the officer or agent of the court charged with the duty of collecting monies arising from such fines, and such funds shall be paid over to the city treasury at such time as may be required by the finance director.

(c)

An amount equal to all funds remitted to the city treasury as provided for in this section for the immediately preceding calendar year shall be appropriated to fund the acquisition, maintenance, and operation of information technology equipment and services to be used in the city police department. Such funds shall be exclusively expended for such purposes, and any funds not so expended in any calendar year shall not lapse, but shall be available for use for the same purposes in the next succeeding city fiscal year. Notwithstanding the foregoing, such funds, and the information technology equipment and services for which such funds are to be expended, shall be included as items in the city police department section of the annual operating budget of the city as approved by the city council on an annual basis.

(Code 1986, § 8-9; Ord. No. O-04-03-06, 3-18-2004)