2021 Georgia Code
Title 15 - Courts
Chapter 21 - Payment and Disposition of Fines and Forfeitures
Article 6 - County Drug Abuse Treatment and Education Fund
§ 15-21-101. Collection of Fines and Authorized Expenditures of Funds From County Drug Abuse Treatment and Education Fund

1. The sums provided for in Code Section 15-21-100 shall be collected by the clerk or court officer charged with the duty of collecting moneys arising from fines and forfeited bonds and shall be paid over to the governing authority of the county in which the court is located upon receipt of the fine and assessment if paid in full at the time of sentencing or upon receipt of the final payment if the fine is paid in installments. Those sums paid over to the governing authority shall be deposited thereby into a special account to be known as the "County Drug Abuse Treatment and Education Fund."
2. Moneys collected pursuant to this article and placed in the "County Drug Abuse Treatment and Education Fund" shall be expended by the governing authority of the county for which the fund is established solely and exclusively:
   1. For drug abuse treatment and education programs relating to controlled substances, alcohol, and marijuana;
   2. If a drug court division has been established in the county under Code Section 15-1-15, for purposes of the drug court division;
   3. If an operating under the influence court division has been established in the county under Code Section 15-1-19, for the purposes of the operating under the influence court division; and
   4. If a family treatment court division has been established in the county under Code Section 15-11-70, for the purposes of the family treatment court division.
3. This article shall not preclude the appropriation or expenditure of other funds by the governing authority of any county or by the General Assembly for the purpose of drug abuse treatment or education programs, drug court divisions, operating under the influence court divisions, or family treatment court divisions.

(Code 1981, §15-21-101, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2018, § 1; Ga. L. 2012, p. 899, § 2-4/HB 1176; Ga. L. 2016, p. 443, § 1-11/SB 367.)

The 2016 amendment, effective July 1, 2016, in subsection (b), deleted "and" at the end of paragraph (b)(1), substituted a semicolon for a period at the end of paragraph (b)(2), added paragraphs (b)(3) and (b)(4); designated the ending undesignated paragraph as subsection (c); and substituted "programs, drug court divisions, operating under the influence court divisions, or family treatment court divisions" for "programs or drug court divisions" near the end of present subsection (c).

- Ga. L. 2012, p. 899, § 9-1(a)/HB 1176, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2012, and shall apply to offenses which occur on or after that date. Any offense occurring before July 1, 2012, shall be governed by the statute in effect at the time of such offense and shall be considered a prior conviction for the purpose of imposing a sentence that provides for a different penalty for a subsequent conviction for the same type of offense, of whatever degree or level, pursuant to this Act."

- For article on the 2012 amendment of this Code section, see 29 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 290 (2012). For article on the 2016 amendment of this Code section, see 33 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 139 (2016).