O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-21-131 (2019)

Imposition of additional fines

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) In every case in which any court of this state or any municipality or political subdivision of this state shall impose a fine, which shall be construed to include costs, for any criminal offense or any criminal ordinance violation, there shall be imposed as an additional penalty a sum equal to 5 percent of the original fine.

(b) Such sums shall be in addition to any amount required by Code Section 47-17-60 to be paid into the Peace Officers’ Annuity and Benefit Fund and in addition to any other amounts provided for in this chapter.

History

(Code 1981, § 15-21-131, enacted by Ga. L. 1995, p. 260, § 3; Ga. L. 1997, p. 551, § 1.)

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Traffic offenses. - Imposition of the five percent additional penalty includes chargeable traffic offenses. 1997 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U97-28. Additional penalty. - Additional penalty imposed under O.C.G.A. § 15-21-131

should be collected in traffic cases, unless there is a specific exception in which the accused posts a cash bond that is subsequently forfeited and applied as a fine in lieu of the accused appearing in court. 2006 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 2006-1.