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12-116.10 - Assessment; law enforcement equipment fund
12-116.10. Assessment; law enforcement equipment fund
A. In addition to any other penalty assessment provided by law, a penalty assessment shall be levied in an amount of $4 on every civil penalty imposed and collected for a civil traffic violation and fine, penalty or forfeiture for a criminal violation of the motor vehicle statutes or for any local ordinance relating to the stopping, standing or operation of a vehicle.
B. The court shall transmit the assessments collected pursuant to this section and a remittance report of the fines, civil penalties and forfeitures collected pursuant to this section to the county treasurer, except that municipal courts shall transmit the assessments and the remittance report of the fines, civil penalties and forfeitures to the city or town treasurer.
C. The city, town or county treasurer shall transmit the assessment and the remittance report to the state treasurer. The state treasurer shall deposit the assessment in the law enforcement equipment fund established by section 41-1731.
D. The court may mitigate all or part of the assessment in the same manner and subject to the same limitations in the mitigation of a fine in section 13-825, subsection B.