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FROM: Phil Batchelor Contra
County Administrator
Costa
DAT9'. February 25, 1987 Cour
SUBJECT:
Legislation: Senate Bill 458 (Petris)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACFWROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION-
Adopt a position of support for SB 458 by Senator Petris which
would extend to Contra Costa County the authority San Diego and
Alameda counties now have to impose an administrative fee for the
cost of recording and maintaining a record of the defendant' s
prior convictions for violations of the Vehicle Code, and for
notifying the Department of Motor Vehicles that a defendant' s
driver' s license or automobile registration is attached, or
restricted. SB 458 would also authorize Contra Costa County to
establish a fee in both municipal and superior court for the cost
of processing accounts receivable for fines owed in criminal
cases.
BACKGROUND:
Under current law, only Alameda and San Diego counties have this
authority to impose the administrative assessment for DMV
notification and to impose a fee for accounts receivable. Last
year, Senator Petris carried SB 1740 which provided this
authorization for Alameda County. We had initially asked that
Contra Costa County be added to SB 1740. So many counties asked.
to be added to SB 1740 that Senator Petris amended the bill to
include any county. The bill later had to be amended back to
only Alameda County. It had been Senator Petris' intent to leave
Contra Costa County in the bill. Through an error, our County
was left out so that the final bill added only Alameda County.
This year Senator Petris has agreed to carry legislation similar
to last year' s SB 1740 to include only Contra Costa County. The
administrative fee for DMV records and. notification could not
exceed $10, and the fee for processing accounts receivable in
municipal and superior courts for criminal fines could not exceed
$30. It is estimated that passage of SB 458 would generate
additional revenue in the County of $300,000 per year.
Passage of this legislation is a part of the Board' s 1987
Legislative Program. We are, therefore, recommending that the
Board support SB 458 .
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CC: County Administrator ATTESTED MAR 3 1987
Clerk-Administrator, Muni Courts --
Superior Court Administrator PHIL BATCHELOR. CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Director, Office of Revenue Collections SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Senator Nick Petris
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