577.520. License reinstatement, substance abuse traffic offender program--professional assessment--supplemental fee, disposition, failure to remit, penalty.
License reinstatement, substance abuse traffic offenderprogram--professional assessment--supplemental fee, disposition,failure to remit, penalty.
577.520. 1. No person who has had his license suspended or revokedunder the provisions of sections 577.500 and 577.505 shall have thatlicense reinstated until he has paid a twenty-dollar reinstatement fee andhas successfully completed a substance abuse traffic offender program asdefined in section 577.001.
2. The fees for the substance abuse traffic offender program, or aportion thereof to be determined by the division of alcohol and drug abuseof the department of mental health, shall be paid by the person enrolled inthe program. Any person who is enrolled in the program shall pay, inaddition to any fee charged for the program, a supplemental fee to bedetermined by the department of mental health for the purposes of fundingthe substance abuse traffic offender program defined in section 302.010,RSMo, and section 577.001, or a program determined to be comparable by thedepartment of mental health. The administrator of the program shall remitto the division of alcohol and drug abuse of the department of mentalhealth on or before the fifteenth of each month the supplemental fees forall persons enrolled in the program, less two percent for administrativecosts. Interest shall be charged on any unpaid balance of the supplementalfees due the division of alcohol and drug abuse pursuant to this sectionand shall accrue at a rate not to exceed the annual rates establishedpursuant to the provisions of section 32.065, RSMo, plus three percentagepoints. The supplemental fees and any interest received by the departmentof mental health pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the mentalhealth earnings fund which is created in section 630.053, RSMo.
3. Any administrator who fails to remit to the division of alcoholand drug abuse of the department of mental health the supplemental fees andinterest for all persons enrolled in the program pursuant to this sectionshall be subject to a penalty equal to the amount of interest accrued onthe supplemental fees due the division pursuant to this section. If thesupplemental fees, interest, and penalties are not remitted to the divisionof alcohol and drug abuse of the department of mental health within sixmonths of the due date, the attorney general of the state of Missouri shallinitiate appropriate action of the collection of said fees and interestaccrued. The court shall assess attorney fees and court costs against anydelinquent program.
(L. 1987 S.B. 230 § 5, A.L. 1991 S.B. 125 & 341, A.L. 1993 S.B. 167, A.L. 1996 H.B. 1169 & 1271 merged with S.B. 722, A.L. 2003 H.B. 600)Effective 7-01-03