Administrative fees.

(a) The Madison County Work Release and Pre-Trial Release Commission may establish administrative fees to fund alternative sentencing programs, educational programs, intervention programs, treatment programs, and other programs to serve the courts of the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit, and may collect the fees from any person ordered by the courts to complete an alternative sentencing program, or other program administered by the commission.

(b) The commission shall have sole authority to establish administrative fees to fund the programs that serve the courts of the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit.

(c) Any person who, upon court order, enrolls in any educational program, intervention program, or treatment program, administered by the commission shall at the time of enrollment be notified of any fees associated with the program, and shall be notified of the location and cost of any equivalent program offered in their home county. Any program that meets applicable certification criteria and fully satisfies the order of the court shall be deemed equivalent. Enrollment in equivalent programs in lieu of programs administered by the commission shall be at the discretion of the defendant.

(d) Any judge in the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit may waive any administrative fee, or any portion thereof, associated with a defendant's assignment to a program administered by the commission.

(e) All administrative fees collected shall be given to the Madison County Commission for deposit into the Madison County Work Release and Pre-Trial Release Fund as provided in Act 488 of the 1978 Regular Session (Acts 1978, p. 530), and expended in accordance with that act.

(Act 2001-964, 3rd Sp. Sess., p. 852, §§ 1-5.)