Title 255—LOCAL
COURT RULESBUCKS COUNTY Order Amending Administrative Order No. 38; Administrative Order No. 38 [41 Pa.B. 5154]
[Saturday, October 1, 2011]Order And Now, this 15th day of September, 2011, Bucks County Criminal Division Administrative Order No. 40 is hereby rescinded.
Further, Bucks County Criminal Division Administrative Order No. 38 is hereby amended to read in its entirety as follows:
1. A probation supervision fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per month is hereby imposed on all probation and/or parole sentences where the defendant is placed under the supervision of the Bucks County Adult Probation Department on or after the effective date hereof. All dispositions of violations of probation/parole shall be governed by this order. All such fees shall be paid to the Office of the Clerk of Courts of Bucks County.
2. Except upon special order of the sentencing judge, only sentences of intermediate punishment are exempt from the probation supervision fee.
3. On or after the effective date of this order, any defendant transferred by another Court or jurisdiction for supervision in Bucks County shall be required to pay the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per month to the Bucks County Clerk of Courts for those months that the defendant is under the supervision of the Bucks County Adult Probation Department.
4. Fees for administration in the amount of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) and supervision in the amount one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) are hereby imposed on all Accelerated Rehabilitative Dispositions (ARD) and sentences of probation without verdict.
5. The Clerk shall, by the tenth working day of each month, transfer 50 percent of the supervision fees so collected to the Treasurer of Bucks County to be credited to the Bucks County Offender Supervision Fund* and to be allocated as may be directed by the President Judge. The balance of the supervision fees so collected shall be remitted to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as required by law. The ARD administration fee of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) shall be payable to the Office of the District Attorney.
This Order shall become effective November 1, 2011.
* Currently designated as Budget Account No. 151 470 48.
By the Court
SUSAN DEVLIN SCOTT,
President Judge[Pa.B. Doc. No. 11-1689. Filed for public inspection September 30, 2011, 9:00 a.m.]
