York Cnty. Pa. 1200

As amended through April 1, 2024
Rule 1200 - Disposition of Fines, Costs, Restitution and Other Fees Collected
(A) The Clerk of Courts and the York County Department of Probation shall be the designated entities responsible for the collection and allocation of all costs, fines, reparation, restitution, penalties, and other remittances imposed and collected as a result of criminal cases in the Court of Common Pleas of York County.
(B) All criminal cases requiring payment of costs, fines, reparation, restitution, penalties, and other remittances by a single defendant shall be placed into a single individualized payment plan within the Common Pleas Criminal Court Case Management System (CPCMS), unless directed otherwise by court order.
(1) Such payment plans shall be created by the Office of the Clerk of Courts or the Department of Adult Probation.
(2) Any criminal cases requiring payment of costs, fines, reparation, restitution, penalties, and other remittances by a defendant who has a pre-existing payment plan, shall be incorporated into the defendant's pre-existing payment plan, whereby one payment plan may include multiple cases, unless otherwise ordered by the Court.
(3) Each payment of costs, fines, reparation, restitution, penalties and other remittances made by a defendant or by the PA Department of Corrections or the York County Prison as per Act 84 of 1998 on behalf of the defendant to the Office of the Clerk of Courts or the Department of Probation shall be distributed according to the defendant's individualized payment plan within CPCMS, whereby each payment shall be applied to the defendant's individual payment plan and shall then be divided and applied equally among each of the cases within the payment plan.
(4) In accordance with the CPCMS Uniform Disbursement Schedule (UDS) for the Criminal Division of the Courts of Common Pleas Using the Common Pleas Criminal Court Case Management System (CPCMS) found in 204 Pa. Code § 29.405, the Clerk of Courts and the Department of Probation shall distribute all fines costs, reparations, restitution, penalties, and other remittances imposed and collected in the prioritized order as set forth in the above-mentioned schedule.
(5) Each payment of costs, fines, reparation, restitution, penalties, and other remittances made by a defendant that is equally distributed among all the defendant's cases within that defendant's individualized CPCMS payment plan, shall be allocated in the order proscribed by the CPCMS UDS.

York Cnty. Pa. 1200

Amended effective through 4/1/2024.