Ohio § 2951.021

§ 2951.021.

(A)(1) If a court places a misdemeanor offender under a community control sanction under section 2929.26 , 2929.27 , or 2929.28 of the Revised Code or places a felony offender under a community control sanction under section 2929.16 , 2929.17 , or 2929.18 of the Revised Code and if the court places the offender under the control and supervision of a probation

agency, the court may require the offender, as a condition of community control, to

pay a monthly supervision fee of not more than fifty dollars for supervision services.  If the court requires an offender to pay a monthly supervision fee and the offender

will be under the control of a county department of probation, a multicounty department

of probation, or a municipal court department of probation established under section 1901.33 of the Revised Code , the court shall specify whether the offender is to pay the fee to the probation

agency that will have control over the offender or to the clerk of the court for which

the supervision agency is established.  If the court requires an offender to pay a monthly probation fee and the offender

will be under the control of the adult parole authority, the court shall specify that

the offender is to pay the fee to the clerk of the court of common pleas. (2) No person shall be assessed, in any month, more than fifty dollars in supervision

fees. (3) The prosecuting attorney of the county or the chief legal officer of a municipal

corporation in which is located the court that imposed sentence upon an offender may

bring a civil action to recover unpaid monthly supervision fees that the offender

was required to pay.  Any amount recovered in the civil action shall be paid into the appropriate county

or municipal probation services fund in accordance with division (B) of this section. (4) The failure of an offender to comply with a condition of community control that requires

the offender to pay a monthly supervision fee and that is imposed under division (A)(1)

of this section shall not constitute the basis for the modification of the offender's

community control sanctions pursuant to section 2929.15 or 2929.25 of the Revised Code but may be considered with any other factors that form the basis of a modification

of a sanction for violating a community control sanction under those sections.  If the court determines that a misdemeanor offender on community control failed

to pay a monthly supervision fee imposed under division (A)(1) of this section and

that no other factors warranting the modification of the offender's community control

sanction are present, the court shall remand the offender to the custody of the probation

agency and may impose any additional conditions of community control upon the offender,

including a requirement that the offender perform community service, as the ends of

justice require.  Any requirement imposed pursuant to division (A)(4) of this section that the offender

perform community service shall be in addition to and shall not limit or otherwise

affect any order that the offender perform community service pursuant to division (B) of section 2951.02 of the Revised Code . (B) Prior to the last day of the month in each month during the period of community control,

an offender who is ordered to pay a monthly supervision fee under this section shall

pay the fee to the probation agency that has control and supervision over the offender

or to the clerk of the court for which the probation agency is established, as specified

by the court, except that, if the probation agency is the adult parole authority,

the offender shall pay the fee to the clerk of the court of common pleas.  Each probation agency or clerk of a court that receives any monthly supervision

fees shall keep a record of the monthly supervision fees that are paid to the agency

or the clerk and shall give a written receipt to each person who pays a supervision

fee to the agency or clerk. (C) Subject to division (E) of this section, all monthly supervision fees collected under

this section by a probation agency or the clerk of a court shall be disposed of in

the following manner: (1) For offenders who are under the control and supervision of a county department of

probation or a municipal court department of probation in a county-operated municipal

court, on or before the fifth business day of each month, the chief probation officer,

the chief probation officer's designee, or the clerk of the court shall pay all monthly

supervision fees collected in the previous month to the county treasurer of the county

in which the county department of probation or municipal court department of probation

is established for deposit into the county probation services fund established in

the county treasury of that county pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 321.44 of the Revised Code . (2) For offenders who are under the control and supervision of a multicounty department

of probation, on or before the fifth business day of each month, the chief probation

officer, the chief probation officer's designee, or the clerk of the court shall pay

all monthly supervision fees collected in the previous month to the county treasurer

of the county in which is located the court of common pleas that placed the offender

under a community control sanction under the control of the department for deposit

into the county probation services fund established in the county treasury of that

county pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 321.44 of the Revised Code and for subsequent appropriation and transfer in accordance with division (A)(2)

of that section to the appropriate multicounty probation services fund established

pursuant to division (B) of that section. (3) For offenders who are under the control and supervision of a municipal court department

of probation in a municipal court that is not a county-operated municipal court, on

or before the fifth business day of each month, the chief probation officer, the chief

probation officer's designee, or the clerk of the court shall pay all monthly supervision

fees collected in the previous month to the treasurer of the municipal corporation

for deposit into the municipal probation services fund established pursuant to section 737.41 of the Revised Code . (4) For offenders who are under the control and supervision of the adult parole authority,

the clerk of the court of common pleas, on or before the fifth business day of January,

April, July, and October, shall pay all monthly supervision fees collected by the

clerk in the previous three months to the treasurer of the county in which is located

the court of common pleas that placed the offender under a community control sanction

under the control of the authority for deposit into the county probation services

fund established in the county treasury of that county pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 321.44 of the Revised Code . (D) Not later than the first day of December of each year, each probation agency or the

court of common pleas of a county in which the court has entered into an agreement

with the adult parole authority pursuant to section 2301.32 of the Revised Code shall prepare a report regarding its use of money from a county probation services

account, a multicounty probation services account, or a municipal probation services

account, whichever is applicable.  The report shall specify the amount appropriated from the fund to the probation

agency or court during the current calendar year, an estimate of the amount that the

probation agency or court will expend by the end of the year, a summary of how the

amount appropriated has been expended for probation services, and an estimate of the

amount of supervision fees that the probation agency or court will collect and pay

to the appropriate treasurer for deposit in the appropriate fund in the next calendar

year.  The report shall be filed with one of the following: (1) If the probation agency is a county department of probation or a municipal court

department of probation in a county-operated municipal court, with the board of county

commissioners of that county; (2) If the probation agency is a multicounty department of probation, with the board

of county commissioners of the county whose treasurer, in accordance with section 2301.27 of the Revised Code , is designated as the treasurer to whom supervision fees collected under this section

are to be appropriated and transferred under division (A)(2) of section 321.44 of the Revised Code ; (3) If the probation agency is a department of probation of a municipal court that is

not a county-operated municipal court, with the legislative authority of the municipal

corporation that operates the court; (4) If the court of common pleas has entered into an agreement with the adult parole

authority, with the director of rehabilitation and correction, the chief of the adult

parole authority, and the board of county commissioners in each county for which the

adult parole authority provides probation services. (E) If the clerk of a court of common pleas or the clerk of a municipal court collects

any monthly supervision fees under this section, the clerk may retain up to two per

cent of the fees so collected to cover any administrative costs experienced in complying

with the clerk's duties under this section.