ENGROSSED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 217
(By Senators Love, Schoonover, Hunter and Kessler)
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[Originating in the Committee on Finance;
reported March 3, 1999.]
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A BILL to amend article eight, chapter seven of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended,
by adding thereto a new section, designated section
thirteen, relating to imposing a processing fee on persons
committed to county or regional jails.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article eight, chapter seven of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section
thirteen, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 8. JAIL AND JAILER.
§7-8-13. Jail processing fee.
(a) A person committed to be housed in a regional or county jail by order of magistrate, circuit judge or by temporary
commitment order shall, at the time of booking into the jail, pay
a processing fee of twenty dollars. If the person is unable to
pay at the time of booking, the fee shall be deducted, at a rate
of fifty percent, from any new deposits made into the person's
jail trust account until the jail processing fee is paid in full.
The fee shall be credited, as appropriate, to the regional jails
authority's or county jail's operating budget.
(b) A refund of a fee collected under this section shall be
made to a person who has paid the fee if the person is not
convicted of the offense for which the person was booked. In the
case of multiple offenses, if the person is convicted of any of
the offenses the fee may not be refunded. If the person is
convicted of a lesser included offense or a related offense, no
refund may be made.
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