PRINTER'S NO. 785
No. 704 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY HERSHEY, PITTS, MORRIS, HALUSKA, SCHULER, BOYES,
GEIST, DEMPSEY, JOHNSON, LEH, DISTLER, BARLEY, DeLUCA AND
GODSHALL, MARCH 13, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 13, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for inability to pay fine and
3 costs.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 6504 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 6504. Inability to pay fine and costs.
9 (a) Order for installment payments.--Upon plea and proof
10 that a person is unable to pay any fine and costs imposed under
11 this title, a court may, in accordance with 42 Pa.C.S. § 9758
12 (relating to fine), order payment of the fine and costs in
13 installments and shall fix the amounts, times and manner of
14 payment.
15 (b) Imprisonment for nonpayment.--Any person who does not
16 comply with an order entered under this section may be
17 imprisoned for a number of days equal to one day for each [$10]
18 $40 of the unpaid balance of the fine and costs.
1 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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