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SECTION 99-L
Fees in criminal actions and other proceedings
General Municipal (GMU) CHAPTER 24, ARTICLE 5
§ 99-l. Fees in criminal actions and other proceedings. 1. Towns and
villages, for their own respective benefits shall be entitled to receive
for the services of the town court and the village court in criminal
actions and other proceedings:

(a) For all services in each case of a misdemeanor or other offenses,
including misdemeanors and moving violations under the vehicle and
traffic law, instituted in and triable in such a court, wherein a fine,
if imposed, would be the property of the state, fifteen dollars.

(b) For all services in each criminal proceeding instituted before and
triable by such a court, wherein a fine, if imposed, would be the
property of the state, fifteen dollars.

(c) For all services in any case in which the court acts upon a felony
complaint, to be paid by the county, ten dollars.

(d) For all services in any case in which the defendant is held for
appearance before another court, no fee.

(e) For endorsing a warrant from another county, no fee.

(f) For furnishing copies of papers in any proceeding, at the rate of
twenty-five cents per folio of one hundred words.

(g) For return to any appeal to be paid by the county, ten dollars.

(h) For examination of any information and depositions and issuing a
search warrant, including any disposition upon the return thereof,
fifteen dollars.

(i) For issuing a license suspension or revocation order pursuant to
paragraph (d) of subdivision two of section eleven hundred ninety-three
of the vehicle and traffic law, providing the license suspension or
revocation order is forwarded to the commissioner along with the
certificates required in sections five hundred thirteen and five hundred
fourteen of the vehicle and traffic law within ninety-six hours, or for
suspending a license pursuant to clause a of subparagraph one of
paragraph (e) of subdivision two of section eleven hundred ninety-three
of such law, providing the license and the certificate of magistrate
required in section five hundred thirteen of such law are forwarded to
the commissioner within ninety-six hours, fifteen dollars.

* 2. The county of Nassau shall be entitled to receive the amounts set
forth in subdivision one of this section for the services of the Nassau
county traffic and parking violations agency and for all services in
each case of a parking violation, instituted and triable in such agency,
wherein a fine is imposed, a surcharge of ten dollars.

* NB Effective until December 31, 2025

* 2. The county of Nassau shall be entitled to receive the amounts set
forth in subdivision one of this section for the services of Nassau
county traffic and parking violations agency.

* NB Effective December 31, 2025

3. The county of Suffolk shall be entitled to receive the amounts set
forth in subdivision one of this section for the services of the Suffolk
county traffic and parking violations agency.