PRINTER'S NO. 207
No. 215 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY PUNT, HELFRICK AND AFFLERBACH, JANUARY 27, 1997
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JANUARY 27, 1997
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for costs of
3 assigned counsel.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1725.1 of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
8 § 1725.1. Costs.
9 * * *
10 (g) Public defender or private counsel assigned.--If a
11 public defender or private attorney, assigned as counsel in
12 accordance with the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
13 furnishes legal counsel to a defendant, the defendant shall, if
14 convicted, in addition to any other fine or costs imposed, be
15 ordered to pay $50 in a misdemeanor case and $100 in a felony
16 case.
17 Section 2. Section 3572 of Title 42 is amended to read:
18 § 3572. County portion of fines, etc.
1 (a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided in this
2 subchapter, all fines, forfeited recognizances and other
3 forfeitures imposed, lost or forfeited and fees and costs
4 collected in the court of common pleas, or community court
5 established for a judicial district embracing a county, or in a
6 magisterial district within the county, or in the Philadelphia
7 Municipal Court, shall be payable to such county.
8 (b) Public defender or private attorney provided by
9 county.--Costs collected under section 1725.1(g) (relating to
10 costs) shall be payable to the county which incurred the costs
11 associated with furnishing legal counsel.
12 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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