§ 14-2. Additional court costs for local criminal justice training fund.

(a)

Title. This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Orange County Local Criminal Justice Training Fund Ordinance."

(b)

Authority. This section is enacted pursuant to F.S. § 318.21, which provides for the apportionment of civil penalties received by a county court pursuant to the Florida Uniform Disposition of Traffic Infractions Act [F.S. ch. 318] and the payment of a portion of such penalties into a fund for criminal justice education degree programs and training courses. This section is enacted, further, to memorialize past practice of the county in accord with and under the provisions of F.S. § 945.25, which authorizes counties to erect a fund for criminal justice education degree programs and training courses and, further, to assess additional court costs to support such a fund.

(c)

Scope. This section shall be effective throughout the unincorporated area of the county.

(d)

Construction. The provisions of this section shall be liberally construed in order to effectively carry out the purpose of this section.

(e)

Memorializing county local criminal justice training fund. It is hereby memorialized that the county established, by virtue of a resolution enacted July 9, 1981, that certain fund referred to in F.S. § 943.25 as "a fund for criminal justice education degree programs and training courses." Such fund is hereinafter referred to as the "Orange County Local Criminal Justice Training Fund."

(f)

Memorializing levy of additional court costs to support fund. It is hereby memorialized that the county has and shall continue to levy certain discretionary additional court costs to provide revenue to support the county local criminal justice training fund. Such additional court costs are in the amount of two dollars ($2.00) and are levied by virtue of F.S. § 943.25(13) and 943.25(3) for each conviction for violation of a state penal or criminal statute or conviction for violation of a municipal or county ordinance and further, such levy also shall be made against any person whose adjudication is withheld pursuant to the provisions of F.S. § 318.14(9) or 318.14(10), and, further, such levy also shall be made upon and paid from every bond estreature or forfeited bail bond related to such penal statutes or penal ordinances.

(g)

Payment to fund by parties of F.S. ch. 318. Two dollars ($2.00) from each civil penalty or forfeiture received by the county court pursuant to the provisions of F.S. ch. 318, entitled "Disposition of Traffic Infractions," shall be remitted, pursuant to the provisions of F.S. § 318.21(3)(c), to the county local criminal justice training fund.

(h)

Apportionment of the funds. Such funds as are received into the county local criminal justice training fund shall, from time to time, be equally divided and disbursed, one-half to the sheriff of the county for training and education of county law enforcement officers and one-half to the county division of corrections, for training and education of county correctional officers.

(Code 1965, § 8-15; Ord. No. 88-4, §§ 1—8, 3-14-88)

Charter reference

Conflicts between county ordinances and municipal ordinances, § 704.

Cross reference

Law enforcement impact fee, § 23-26 et seq.