§ 11-2. Assessment of additional court costs in criminal proceedings; disposition and use.

As authorized in subsection 8(5) of Chapter 74-386, Laws of Florida, 1974, there shall be assessed an additional one dollar ($1.00) as a court cost against every person convicted in the Circuit and County Courts in Miami-Dade County for violation of any municipal or County ordinance or State penal statute. In addition one dollar ($1.00) shall be deducted as an assessment from every bond estreature or forfeited bail bond related to such penal statutes or penal ordinances. Such additional assessments as are collected by the aforesaid courts shall be paid by the clerks of the courts into the general revenue fund of Miami-Dade County and earmarked specifically for law enforcement training and educational purposes. No such assessment shall be made against any person convicted for violation of any State statute, municipal ordinance or County ordinance relating to the parking of vehicles.

(Ord. No. 75-18, § 1, 3-18-75)

State law reference

Authority to levy above fee, F.S. § 943.25(13).

Editor's note

Ord. No. 75-18, § 1, amended this Code by adding provisions designated as § 2-95. Pursuant to § 3 of said ordinance the provisions were redesignated by the editors as § 11-2 for purposes of classification and inasmuch as this Code already contains a § 2-95.