602.8108 Distribution of court revenue — court technology and modernization fund.

1. The clerk of the district court shall establish an account and deposit in this account all revenue and other receipts. Not later than the fifteenth day of each month, the clerk shall distribute all revenues received during the preceding calendar month. Each distribution shall be accompanied by a statement disclosing the total amount of revenue received during the accounting period and any adjustments of gross revenue figures that are necessary to reflect changes in the balance of the account, including but not limited to reductions resulting from the dishonor of checks previously accepted by the clerk.

2. Except as otherwise provided, the clerk of the district court shall report and submit to the state court administrator, not later than the fifteenth day of each month, the fines and fees received during the preceding calendar month. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the state court administrator shall deposit the amounts received with the treasurer of state for deposit in the general fund of the state. The state court administrator shall report to the legislative services agency within thirty days of the beginning of each fiscal quarter the amount received during the previous quarter in the account established under this section.

3. The clerk of the district court shall remit to the state court administrator, not later than the fifteenth day of each month, ninety-five percent of all moneys collected from the criminal penalty surcharge provided in section 911.1 during the preceding calendar month. The clerk shall remit the remainder to the county treasurer of the county that was the plaintiff in the action or to the city that was the plaintiff in the action. Of the amount received from the clerk, the state court administrator shall allocate seventeen percent to be deposited in the victim compensation fund established in section 915.94, and eighty-three percent to be deposited in the general fund.

4. The clerk of the district court shall remit all moneys collected from the drug abuse resistance education surcharge provided in section 911.2 to the state court administrator for deposit in the general fund of the state and the amount deposited is appropriated to the governor’s office of drug control policy for use by the drug abuse resistance education program and other programs directed for a similar purpose.

5. The clerk of the district court shall remit all moneys collected from the assessment of the law enforcement initiative surcharge provided in section 911.3 to the state court administrator no later than the fifteenth day of each month for deposit in the general fund of the state.

6. The clerk of the district court shall remit all moneys collected from the assessment of the human trafficking victim surcharge provided in section 911.2A to the state court administrator no later than the fifteenth day of each month for deposit in the human trafficking victim fund created in section 915.95.

7. The clerk of the district court shall remit all moneys collected from the assessment of the surcharges provided in sections 911.2B and 911.2C to the state court administrator for deposit in the address confidentiality program revolving fund created in section 9.8.

8. The clerk of the district court shall remit all moneys collected from the county enforcement surcharge pursuant to section 911.4 to the county where the citation was issued for deposit in the county general fund no later than the fifteenth day of each month.

9. A court technology and modernization fund is established as a separate fund in the state treasury. The state court administrator shall allocate one million dollars of the moneys received under subsection 2 to be deposited in the fund, which shall be administered by the supreme court and shall be used to enhance the ability of the judicial branch to process cases more quickly and efficiently, to electronically transmit information to state government, local governments, law enforcement agencies, and the public, and to improve public access to the court system.

10. The state court administrator shall allocate all of the fines and fees attributable to commercial vehicle violation citations issued by motor vehicle division personnel of the state department of transportation to the treasurer of state for deposit in the road use tax fund.

11. The state court administrator shall allocate fifty percent of all of the fines attributable to littering citations issued pursuant to sections 321.369, 321.370, and 461A.43 to the treasurer of state for deposit in the general fund of the state and such moneys are appropriated to the state department of transportation for purposes of the cleanup of litter and illegally discarded solid waste.

12. The clerk of the district court shall remit to the treasurer of state, not later than the fifteenth day of each month, all moneys collected from the sex offender civil penalty provided in section 692A.110 during the preceding calendar month. Of the amount received from the clerk, the treasurer of state shall allocate ten percent to be deposited in the court technology and modernization fund established in subsection 9. The treasurer of state shall deposit the remainder into the sex offender registry fund established in section 692A.119.

83 Acts, ch 186, §9108, 10201; 91 Acts, ch 116, §15; 94 Acts, ch 1074, §7; 96 Acts, ch 1216, §31; 96 Acts, ch 1218, §38, 39, 71; 98 Acts, ch 1047, §61; 98 Acts, ch 1090, §73, 84; 98 Acts, ch 1212, §8; 2000 Acts, ch 1222, §15; 2001 Acts, ch 168, §3; 2001 Acts, ch 182, §10; 2002 Acts, ch 1175, §44; 2003 Acts, ch 35, §45, 49; 2004 Acts, ch 1111, §3; 2004 Acts, ch 1119, §5; 2005 Acts, ch 3, §103; 2005 Acts, ch 143, §1, 2; 2005 Acts, ch 165, §5, 6; 2005 Acts, ch 179, §138; 2006 Acts, ch 1030, §76; 2006 Acts, ch 1087, §2, 3; 2006 Acts, ch 1166, §6 – 8; 2006 Acts, ch 1182, §64; 2007 Acts, ch 215, §65; 2009 Acts, ch 119, §46, 47; 2014 Acts, ch 1097, §3, 4; 2015 Acts, ch 30, §176; 2015 Acts, ch 96, §14; 2016 Acts, ch 1073, §163

Referred to in §9.8, 321.210B, 331.427, 364.3, 602.1302, 602.1304, 602.8107, 602.8108A, 602.11101, 625.8, 631.6, 633.20, 633.31, 692A.110, 907.14, 911.1, 911.2, 911.2A, 911.2B, 911.2C, 911.3, 911.4

Use of court technology and modernization fund; 2016 Acts, ch 1136, §2; 2017 Acts, ch 166, §7

Section not amended; editorial change applied