31-3221. PAYMENTS TO COURT BY CREDIT CARD OR DEBIT CARD. (1) The clerk of the district court may accept payment of a debt owed to the court by a credit card or debit card. Any person making payment on a debt owed to the court by a credit card or debit card shall be assessed an electronic payment convenience fee established by the supreme court, which shall include, among other costs, the amount charged the court by the issuer for the use of the card. This fee may also be paid by credit card or debit card and included in the transaction for the payment of the debt owed to the court. The electronic payment convenience fee shall be separate from the debt owed to the court and shall be deposited into the court technology fund created in section 1-1623, Idaho Code, and shall be used for the implementation of the provisions of this section. The debt owed to the court shall not be expunged, canceled, released, discharged or satisfied and any receipt or other evidence of payment shall be deemed conditional until the court has received final and unconditional payment of the full amount due from the financing agency or card issuer for the transaction. If an electronic payment once made is subsequently denied, revoked or otherwise canceled for any reason, and the payment is withdrawn from the court, the court may proceed as though payment had never been made.
(2) Definitions. As used in this section:
(a) "Cardholder" means the person or organization named on the face of a credit card or debit card to whom or for whose benefit the credit card or debit card is issued by an issuer.
(b) "Credit card" means any instrument or device, whether known as a credit card or credit plate or by any other name, issued with or without a fee by an issuer for the use of the cardholder in obtaining money, property, goods, services or anything else of value on credit.
(c) "Debit card" means any instrument or device, whether known as a debit card or by any other name, issued with or without a fee by an issuer for the use of the cardholder in depositing, obtaining or transferring funds.
(d) "Debt owed to the court" means any assessment of fines, court costs, surcharges, penalties, fees, restitution, cash deposit of bail, moneys expended in providing counsel and other defense services to indigent defendants, or other charges which a court judgment has ordered to be paid to the court or which a party has agreed to pay in criminal or civil cases and includes any interest or penalty on such unpaid amounts as provided for in the judgment or by law.
(e) "Issuer" means a business organization, financial institution or authorized agent of a business organization or financial institution that issues a credit card or debit card.
(3) The supreme court may adopt rules as deemed appropriate for the administration of this section and may enter into contracts with an issuer or other organization to implement the provisions of this section.
History:
[31-3221, added 2003, ch. 287, sec. 1, p. 777; am. 2006, ch. 73, sec. 2, p. 226; am. 2014, ch. 190, sec. 8, p. 513.]
Structure Idaho Code
Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW
Section 31-3201 - CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT — FEES.
Section 31-3201A - COURT FEES.
Section 31-3201B - PEACE OFFICERS STANDARDS AND TRAINING — FEE.
Section 31-3201C - COMMUNITY SERVICE FEE.
Section 31-3201D - COUNTY MISDEMEANOR PROBATION SUPERVISION FEE.
Section 31-3201E - DRUG COURT AND MENTAL HEALTH COURT FEE — DRUG COURT AND MENTAL HEALTH COURT FUND.
Section 31-3201F - ABANDONED VEHICLE FEE.
Section 31-3201G - GUARDIANSHIP AND CONSERVATORSHIP PROJECT FUND.
Section 31-3201H - SURCHARGE FEE.
Section 31-3201I - DISTRIBUTION OF PAYMENTS IN CRIMINAL AND INFRACTION CASES.
Section 31-3201J - PRETRIAL SUPERVISION FEE.
Section 31-3202 - CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT — EXCEPTIONS TO FEE SCHEDULE.
Section 31-3203 - SHERIFF’S FEES.
Section 31-3204 - VICTIM NOTIFICATION — FEE.
Section 31-3205 - RECORDER’S FEES.
Section 31-3206 - RECORDER — EXCEPTIONS TO FEE SCHEDULE.
Section 31-3207 - AUDITOR’S FEES.
Section 31-3211 - FEES TO BE PREPAID — EXCEPTION — PENALTY FOR OFFICIAL DERELICTION.
Section 31-3213 - PENSIONERS EXEMPT FROM PAYING FEE — PENALTY FOR CHARGING.
Section 31-3214 - TABLE OF FEES — OFFICERS TO PUBLISH — PENALTY FOR NEGLECT.
Section 31-3215 - EXECUTION FOR FEES.
Section 31-3217 - LIMITATION ON MILEAGE OF OFFICER.
Section 31-3218 - RECEIPT FOR FEES.
Section 31-3219 - PHOTOGRAPHIC COPIES OF RECORDS — FEES.
Section 31-3220 - INABILITY TO PAY FEES — DEFINITIONS — AFFIDAVIT.
Section 31-3221 - PAYMENTS TO COURT BY CREDIT CARD OR DEBIT CARD.