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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 12-1081

THE COURTS

ALLEGHENY COUNTY

Pretrial Services Department Court Reporting Network (CRN) Fee; No. AD-2012-121-CR

[42 Pa.B. 3439]
[Saturday, June 16, 2012]

Order of Court

 And Now, to-wit, this 11th day of May, 2012, the court hereby orders an increase of the Court Network Reporting (CRN) fee from seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per Driving Under the Influence (DUI) case to one hundred dollars ($100.00) per DUI case assessed for offenders convicted of DUI or permitted to enter the court's Accelerated Rehabilitation Disposition (ARD) program for a DUI offense. Said increase in the CRN fee is to be effective thirty days after publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin and applied only to offenders sentenced or placed on ARD on or after the publication requirement has been satisfied.

 In support of this order increasing the CRN fee, the court finds the following:

 1. That pursuant to 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3816(a), every offender convicted of DUI or permitted to enter the court's ARD program for a DUI offense must receive a CRN evaluation.

 2. That the Pretrial Services Department employs four full-time CRN evaluators and expends significant time and resources administering CRN evaluations each year.

 3. That the court, through the Pretrial Services Department, can no longer sustain the costs of administering all of the required CRN evaluations at the current fee, and that it is fair and reasonable to assess offenders a CRN fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the purpose of defraying the costs of administering CRN evaluations

 The following guidelines shall be implemented in the assessment and collection of the CRN fee:

 1. All offenders shall be subject to a CRN evaluation fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for every ARD case resulting from a DUI arrest or non-ARD case resulting in a DUI conviction.

 2. Payment of said CRN evaluation fee shall be considered a condition of the offender's ARD or probation requirements, and failure to pay the CRN evaluation fee shall be considered by the court to be a technical violation of an offender's conditions of ARD or probation and may result in the revocation of an ARD or probation sentence.

By the Court

DONNA JO McDANIEL, 
President Judge

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 12-1081. Filed for public inspection June 15, 2012, 9:00 a.m.]


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