2018 Tennessee Code
Title 40 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 24 - Fines
§ 40-24-101. Payment of fines -- Manner.
(a) When any court of this state, including municipal courts for violation of municipal ordinances, imposes a fine upon an individual, the court may direct as follows:
(1) That the defendant pay the entire amount at the time sentence is pronounced;
(2) That the defendant pay the entire amount at some later date;
(3) That the defendant pay the fine in specified portions or installments at designated periodic intervals and that the portions be remitted to a designated official, who shall report to the court in the event of any failure to comply with the order; or
(4) Where the defendant is sentenced to a period of probation as well as a fine, that payment of the fine be a condition of the sentence.
(b) For the clerk's services in administering any court-approved plan authorizing payment of a fine by installments, the clerk of court shall be entitled to a fee of five percent (5%) of the total amount to be collected, not to exceed fifteen dollars ($15.00); provided, that in counties having a population of more than seven hundred thousand (700,000), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census, the fee shall not exceed ten percent (10%) of the total amount to be collected, not to exceed fifteen dollars ($15.00). The clerk's fees shall be added to the defendant's bill of costs.
