PRINTER'S NO. 3963
No. 2656 Session of 2004
INTRODUCED BY D. EVANS, THOMAS, DeWEESE, ARMSTRONG, BEBKO-JONES,
BLAUM, CRAHALLA, CURRY, DeLUCA, EACHUS, FABRIZIO, FRANKEL,
GOODMAN, HALUSKA, HENNESSEY, HERSHEY, JAMES, JOSEPHS, KOTIK,
LAUGHLIN, LYNCH, MANDERINO, McCALL, MELIO, MUNDY, PALLONE,
PISTELLA, RUBLEY, SCRIMENTI, STABACK, TIGUE, WASHINGTON,
WATERS, WHEATLEY AND YOUNGBLOOD, JUNE 7, 2004
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 7, 2004
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 (a.1) Order for community service.--
16 (1) Upon plea and proof that a person is unable to make
1 a payment pursuant to subsection (a), the court may order
2 that such person perform a reasonable period of community
3 service in lieu of payment or portion thereof and shall fix
4 the amount, time and manner of performance of service. The
5 court may establish a reasonable deadline for satisfactory
6 completion of community service ordered under this
7 subsection. The court may impose a fee up to $25 for
8 administrative or other supervision costs associated with
9 this subsection.
10 (2) Upon plea and proof that a person who is delinquent
11 in making a payment is unable to make a payment pursuant to
12 previous fines and costs pursuant to this chapter, the court
13 may order that such person perform a reasonable period of
14 community service in lieu of payment or portion thereof and
15 shall fix the amount, time and manner of performance of
16 service. The court may establish a reasonable deadline for
17 satisfactory completion of community service ordered under
18 this subsection. The court may impose a fee up to $25 for
19 administrative or other supervision costs associated with
20 this subsection.
21 (a.2) A person who is unable to make a payment or is
22 delinquent in a payment pursuant to this chapter may petition
23 the court for a revision of any order for the installment
24 payments under subsection (a) or to receive a sentence of
25 community service under subsection (a.1)(2).
26 (b) Imprisonment for nonpayment or failure to satisfy a
27 community service order.--Any person who does not comply with an
28 order entered under this section may be imprisoned for a number
29 of days equal to one day for each $40 of the unpaid balance of
30 the fine and costs.
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1 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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