Title 255—LOCAL
COURT RULESMercer County County-Wide Booking Center Fee; No. 56 M.D. 2011 [41 Pa.B. 1763]
[Saturday, April 2, 2011]Order And Now, this 14th day of March 2011, the court hereby Approves, Adopts and Promulgates Mercer County Administrative Order 1 A. D. 2011, effective thirty (30) days after the date of publication of this Rule in the Pennsylvania Bulletin, pursuant to Rule 105 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure.
It is also Ordered and Directed the Court Administrator of Mercer County shall file seven (7) certified copies of this Rule with the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, furnish two (2) certified copies to the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin, and file one certified Copy with the Criminal Procedural Rules Committee.
It is further Ordered and Directed that Local Rules shall be kept continuously available for public inspection and copying in the Office of the Prothonotary of Mercer County. Upon request and payment of reasonable costs of reproduction and mailing, the Prothonotary shall furnish to any person a copy of the Local Rules.
A copy of this Administrative Order shall be published in the Mercer County Law Journal.
By the Court
FRANCIS J. FORNELLI,
President JudgeCounty-Wide Booking Center Fee; No. 1 A. D. 2011 Administrative Order And Now, this 28th day of February, 2011, It Is Hereby Ordered and Directed that the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, adopts a county wide regional booking center fee in accordance with a regional booking center plan adopted by the Mercer County Criminal Justice Advisory Board, and supported by the Mercer County Commissioners, the Mercer County Prison Board, the Mercer County Council of Governments and Mercer County Sheriff, District Attorney and county police chiefs. The plan was approved by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency on August 31, 2010. This fee is authorized by 42. Pa.C.S.A. Section 1725.5.
1. A booking fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) shall be assessed and collected by the Mercer County Clerk of Courts after sentencing upon a conviction of, or a plea to: a misdemeanor offense, felony offense, or acceptance into the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition Program. The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts is authorized to add a collections entry process on the appropriate computers to facilitate the collection of this fee.
2. The fee will not apply to those Defendants whose cases were dismissed by a Magisterial District Judge; withdrawn or nolle prossed by the Commonwealth; who enter a guilty plea to a summary offense, or a Rule of Criminal Procedure 586 disposition.
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 11-553. Filed for public inspection April 1, 2011, 9:00 a.m.]
