HomeMy WebLinkAbout06911ORDINANCE NO. 6911
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 4 OF CHAPTER 2 OF TITLE XI OF THE PUEBLO
MUNICIPAL CODE INCREASING THE DAILY CREDIT FOR CONFINEMENT AND WORK
RELEASE IN SATISFACTION OF IMPOSED FINES
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF PUEBLO, that: (brackets indicate matter
omitted, underscoring indicates new matter)
SECTION 1
Section 4 of Chapter 2 of Title XI of the Pueblo Municipal Code is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Section 11 -2-4. Failure to pay fine; daily credit.
(a) Any person convicted of a municipal ordinance or Charter violation who
receives a fine or penalty and who is able to pay the fine but shall fail or refuse to pay the
same when demanded, shall be committed in default thereof to confinement in the City jail
or lockup County wail or community corrections facility, or may be granted work release until
such penalty or fine is satisfied as set forth below.
(b) Any person so confined for failure to pay a fine shall be allowed forty dollars
40.00 [thirty dollars ($30.00)] credit against his or her fine for each day so confined. Any
person so confined, and any person who is granted work release, who diligently and
satisfactorily performs such labor as is directed by the Municipal Judge [Chief of Police]
and whose behavior is otherwise good may be allowed by the Municipal Judge [Chief of
Police] a credit against his or her fine of twenty -five dollars ($25.00) [fifteen dollars
($15.00)] for each day he or she so works and conducts himself or herself. Thus, a work
release participant may satisfy his or her fine at the rate of twenty-five dollars ($25.00)
[fifteen dollars ($15.00)] per day, while a confined prisoner who labors may be allowed
sixty -five dollars ($65.00) [forty-five dollars ($45.00)] for each day in jail.
SECTION 2
If any provision of this Ordinance shall be held invalid, the invalidity of such provision shall
not affect any other provision of this Ordinance.
SECTION 3
This Ordinance shall become effective immediately upon final passage.
INTRODUCED November 11, 2002
M
Councilperson
APPROVED:
resident of City Council
ATTEST:
City C
IV
PASSED AND APPROVED: November 25. 2002