Bill Text: MO HB1738 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows Kansas City to impose an additional court cost of up to $5 for each municipal ordinance violation case to be used for the restoration, maintenance, and upkeep of the municipal courthouse
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-17 - HCS Voted Do Pass (H) [HB1738 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2014-HB1738-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES MIMS (Sponsor), HUBBARD, WALTON GRAY, COLONA, MORGAN, GARDNER AND MCMANUS (Co-sponsors).
5837L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 488, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to additional court costs for maintenance of the Kansas City municipal courthouse.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 488, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 488.2235, to read as follows:
488.2235. 1. In addition to all other court costs for municipal ordinance violations, any home rule city with more than four hundred thousand inhabitants and located in more than one county may provide for additional court costs in an amount up to five dollars per case for each municipal ordinance violation case filed before a municipal division judge or associate circuit judge.
2. The judge may waive the assessment of the cost in those cases where the defendant is found by the judge to be indigent and unable to pay the costs.
3. Such cost shall be collected by the clerk and disbursed to the city at least monthly. The city shall use such additional costs only for the restoration, maintenance and upkeep of the municipal courthouse. The costs collected may be pledged to directly or indirectly secure bonds for the cost of restoration, maintenance and upkeep of the courthouse.
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