Texas Code of Criminal Procedure

§ 103.0025 — ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT PROCEDURE FOR CERTAIN PAST DUE FINES AND COSTS

CR § 103.0025Title 2. CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Ch. 103. PAYMENT, COLLECTION, AND RECORDKEEPING

Statute text

(a)This article applies to a defendant's past due payment on a judgment for a fine and related court costs if a capias pro fine has been issued in the case.

(b)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the court may adopt an alternative procedure for collecting a past due payment described by Subsection (a). Under the procedure, a peace officer who executes a capias pro fine or who is authorized to arrest a defendant on other grounds and knows that the defendant owes a past due payment described by Subsection (a):

(1)shall inform the defendant of:

(A)the possibility of making an immediate payment of the fine and related court costs by use of a credit or debit card; and

(B)the defendant's available alternatives to making an immediate payment; and

(2)may accept, on behalf of the court, the defendant's immediate payment of the fine and related court costs by use of a credit or debit card, after which the peace officer may release the defendant as appropriate based on the officer's authority for the arrest.

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 450 (H.B. 121), Sec. 2, eff. June 15, 2015.