600.4801 Definitions. Sec. 4801. As used in this chapter: (a) “Costs” means any monetary amount that the court is authorized to assess and collect for prosecution, adjudication, or processing of criminal offenses, civil infractions, civil violations, and parking violations, including court costs, the cost of prosecution, and the cost of providing court-ordered legal assistance to […]
600.4803 Penalty, fee, or costs; failure to pay as subject to late penalty; waiver; disposition of late penalty; “funding unit” defined. Sec. 4803. (1) A person who fails to pay a penalty, fee, or costs in full within 56 days after that amount is due and owing is subject to a late penalty equal to […]
600.4805 Penalty; recovery. Sec. 4805. (1) Unless otherwise specially provided for by law, if a penalty is incurred by any person and the act or omission for which the penalty is imposed is not also a felony, misdemeanor, or civil infraction, the penalty may be recovered in a civil action. (2) Unless otherwise specially provided […]
600.4811 Penalty; amount not specified, action. Sec. 4811. When a penalty is imposed by law for any act or omission, not exceeding any specified sum, an action may be brought for the highest sum so specified. The jury, or court before whom the trial is had, shall award the sum deemed proportionate to the offense, […]
600.4815 Fines and costs; execution. Sec. 4815. Execution may issue for the collection of fines and costs imposed for misdemeanors, or offenses punishable by fine or imprisonment, or fine and imprisonment, in all cases where no alternative sentence or judgment of imprisonment has been rendered. No person may be imprisoned under and by virtue of […]
600.4821 Execution on forfeited recognizance; redemption of real estate. Sec. 4821. If any recognizance to the people of this state is forfeited, judgment shall be for the amount of the penalty of the recognizance. Execution shall be awarded and executed upon such judgment in the same manner as upon judgments in personal actions, and with […]
600.4825 Penalty; township officers; notice to prosecuting attorney. Sec. 4825. Every township officer who knows, or has good reason to believe, that any penalty has been incurred within his township, shall forthwith give notice thereof to the prosecuting attorney of the county. History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
600.4831 Penalty; prosecution by prosecuting attorney. Sec. 4831. (1) Where the prosecuting attorney knows, or has reason to believe, that a penalty has been incurred within his county, or has been notified of such penalty by a township officer, he shall prosecute for such penalty without delay. (2) If the township supervisor has commenced a […]
600.4835 Penalty; remission by circuit court. Sec. 4835. The circuit court for the county in which such court was held, or in which such recognizance was taken, may, upon good cause shown, remit any penalty, or any part thereof, upon such terms as appear just and equitable to the court. But this section does not […]
600.4841 Collections; payment to county treasurer. Sec. 4841. (1) All officers or other persons who collect or receive any moneys on account of any penalty shall pay over the same to the county treasurer on or before the last day of the month following. (2) Upon learning that any person has neglected to pay over […]
600.4845 Moneys from fines and penalties; duties of county treasurer. Sec. 4845. (1) The county treasurer shall credit all fines for the violation of the penal laws to the library fund and all other penalties to the general fund; and he shall account therefor to the board of supervisors annually. (2) In case of the […]
600.4851 County law library fund; maximum sums credited from library fund; payment upon order of circuit judge or presiding judge; annual report. Sec. 4851. (1) In each county the county treasurer shall credit semiannually to a fund to be known as the county law library fund, from the library fund, an amount as follows: (a) […]
