Arizona § 12-116 - Time payment fee

§ 12-116. Time payment fee

A. In addition to any other assessment authorized by law, a fee of $20 shall be assessed on each person who pays a court ordered penalty, fine or sanction on a time payment basis, including parking penalties and restitution.  The fee may not be assessed on a penalty, fine or sanction that is ordered by the court pursuant to title 8. A time payment basis shall be any penalty, fine or sanction not paid in full on the date the court imposed the fine, penalty or sanction. Notwithstanding any other law, the time payment fee shall be collected first after restitution. A judge may not waive or suspend a time payment fee.

B. $11 of the time payment fee shall be deposited, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, in the judicial collection enhancement fund established by section 12-113. $2 of the time payment fee shall be deposited, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, in the judicial collection enhancement fund and shall be allocated by the supreme court to the public defender training fund established by section 12-117. $7 of the time payment fee shall be kept by the court imposing the fee to be used by the court to improve, maintain and enhance the ability to collect and manage monies assessed or received by the courts, to improve court automation and to improve case processing or the administration of justice. For amounts over an amount determined by the supreme court, the court shall submit a plan to the supreme court that must be approved by the supreme court before the court spends such monies. If the proposed project was described in the information technology strategic plan submitted by the court and approved by the supreme court, including the proposed budget for the project, the project may proceed without further approval of the supreme court.  In the case of the superior court, the presiding judge and clerk of the superior court must agree on the project or it shall be submitted to and approved by the supreme court.