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The policy of fee reduction to the lowest whole dollar when accepting cash payments: AB77, effective January 1, 2022, eliminated the Installment Charge Fee and required courts to cease collecting its outstanding balances, leaving some fine balances not in whole dollars; the Court will not collect the cents owing on a fine when accepting a cash payment (G.C. 68083.5) - a balance of $35.16 is rounded to $35.00; cash payments only.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF DEL NORTE Standing Order 22-002 Regarding Fine/Fee Reduction The Del Norte Superior Court adopts this policy regarding de minimus fee reduction to the lowest whole dollar when accepting cash payments. Effective January 1, 2022, AB77 eliminated the Installment Charge Fee applied to case accounts when defendants requested to pay their fine balance with monthly payments. The passage of AB77 additionally required Courts to cease the collection of any outstanding balances of this fee. The enactment of AB77 has resulted in some fine balances not in whole dollars. Effort put into collecting the cents from a fine balance would result in a much higher cost to the court than the cents being collected. Eliminating the cent balance allows the court to remain efficient and also help with the national coin shortage. Therefore, the Court will not collect the cents owing on a fine when accepting a cash payment¹. Instead, the final amount owed will be reduced to the lower whole dollar amount in place of the actual balance. For example, a balance of $35.16 will be rounded to $35.00. This Order applies to cash payments only. DATED: FEB 03 2022 DARREN McELFRESH Presiding Judge ¹ G.C. 68083.5
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF DEL NORTE Standing Order 22-002 Regarding Fine/Fee Reduction The Del Norte Superior Court adopts this policy regarding de minimus fee reduction to the lowest whole dollar when accepting cash payments. Effective January 1, 2022, AB77 eliminated the Installment Charge Fee applied to case accounts when defendants requested to pay their fine
Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-10 (California T4 Del Norte build 2026-10-10) by eye from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-del-norte/docs/so-22-002.pdf (287552 bytes, sha256 4a53dd3c02a89ed9392d50011409d6c0cc12f0d0ab4c56af352b4ebc84d0782f; 1 page; a scan, page images, no text layer): read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi; checked against two machine readings never published (RapidOCR on each page and the file's own text layer, which this scan lacks): every 6-word window of the transcription looked up, and the 1 span the readings do not hold - the footnote's superscript mark - read again on the page images (evidence/vision-check-2026-10-10-resolved.txt). The date stamps and handwritten dates are carried as printed; the signatures and the pleading paper's line numbers are not part of the text; the transcription's closing note, which describes the page, is not published. Review note: Carried as printed: "de minimus".
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