The sums provided for in Code Section 15-21-112 shall be assessed and collected by the court officer charged with the duty of collecting moneys arising from fines and shall be paid over by the last day of the following month to the Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority for remittance to the Georgia Crime Victims Compensation Board, to be deposited into the Georgia Crime Victims Emergency Fund. The authority shall, on a quarterly basis, make a report and accounting of all funds collected pursuant to this article and shall submit such report and accounting to the Office of Planning and Budget, the House Budget and Research Office, and the Senate Budget and Evaluation Office no later than 60 days after the last day of the preceding quarter.
(Code 1981, §15-21-113, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 1836, § 1; Ga. L. 2004, p. ES3, § 6/HB 1EX; Ga. L. 2008, p. VO1, § 1-7/HB 529; Ga. L. 2014, p. 866, § 15/SB 340.)
The 2014 amendment, effective April 29, 2014, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted "House Budget and Research Office" for "House Budget Office" and substituted "Senate Budget and Evaluation Office" for "Senate Budget Office" in the last sentence of this Code section.
Editor's notes.- Ga. L. 2008, p. VO1, § 1-7/HB 529, which amended this Code section, was passed by the General Assembly as HB 529 at the 2007 regular session but vetoed by the Governor on May 30, 2007. The General Assembly overrode that veto on January 28, 2008, and the Act became effective on that date.
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Priority of disbursement.
- In the event of partial or installment payments of funds, the payments must be allocated proportionally between money attributable to the fine and to the surcharges, and the amount applicable to the surcharges allocated proportionally to the fund. 1996 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U96-8.