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PEN § 1463.28

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. Penal Code - PEN
  2. PART 2. OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE [681. - 1620.]
  3. TITLE 11. PROCEEDINGS IN MISDEMEANOR AND INFRACTION CASES AND APPEALS FROM SUCH CASES [1427. - 1471.]
  4. CHAPTER 1. Proceedings in Misdemeanor and Infraction Cases [1427. - 1465.9.]

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for each option county, as defined by Section 77004 of the Government Code, which has adopted the resolution specified in subdivision (b), that portion of fines and forfeitures, whether collected by the courts or by other processing agencies, which are attributable to an increase in the bail amounts adopted subsequent to the resolution pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 1269b which would otherwise be divided between the county and cities within the county shall be deposited into the county general fund up to the annual limit listed in subdivision (b) for that county. Fine and forfeiture increments which exceed the specified annual limit shall be divided between the county and the cities within the county as otherwise provided by law. The scheduled bail amounts in such a county may exceed the bail amounts established by the Judicial Council pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 1269b.

(b) The counties which may adopt a resolution directing that future increments in fines and forfeitures as specified in subdivision (a) be deposited in the county general fund and the annual limit applicable to those counties is as follows:

County Annual Limit

Alpine $ 300,000

Amador 200,000

Butte 900,000

Calaveras 300,000

Contra Costa 100,000

Del Norte 200,000

Fresno 700,000

Humboldt 200,000

Kings 300,000

Lake 400,000

Lassen 200,000

Los Angeles 15,000,000

Madera 600,000

Mariposa 200,000

Mendocino 600,000

Modoc 200,000

Mono 200,000

Plumas 200,000

San Benito 300,000

San Diego 5,200,000

San Joaquin 1,000,000

Santa Clara 3,200,000

Sierra 300,000

Stanislaus 1,900,000

Sutter 800,000

Trinity 200,000

Tulare 2,000,000

Tuolumne 400,000

Yolo 700,000

Yuba 900,000

(c) Except as provided in Sections 40200.3 and 40200.4 of the Vehicle Code, this section does not apply to the collection of parking penalties.

Collected 2026-09-14T05:56:33Z. Source file · JSON

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