1809-C - Additional surcharge required for certain violations relating to driving while intoxicated and driving while impaired.

§   1809-c.  Additional  surcharge  required  for  certain  violations  relating to driving while intoxicated and  driving  while  impaired.  1.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of law, whenever proceedings in a  court of this state result in a conviction pursuant  to  section  eleven  hundred  ninety-two  of this chapter, there shall be levied, in addition  to any sentence or other surcharge required  or  permitted  by  law,  an  additional surcharge of twenty-five dollars.    2.  The  additional  surcharge provided for in subdivision one of this  section shall be paid to the  clerk  of  the  court  that  rendered  the  conviction.  Within the first ten days of the month following collection  of the surcharge the collecting authority shall determine the amount  of  surcharge collected and it shall pay such money to the state comptroller  who  shall  deposit such money in the state treasury pursuant to section  one hundred twenty-one of the state finance law to  the  credit  of  the  general fund.    3.  The  provisions  of  subdivision  three  of  section  two  hundred  twenty-seven, subdivision  four-a  of  section  five  hundred  ten,  and  subdivision  three  of  section  five  hundred  fourteen of this chapter  governing actions which may be taken  for  failure  to  pay  a  fine  or  penalty shall be applicable to the additional surcharge imposed pursuant  to this section.    4.  For  the  purposes  of this section, the term conviction means and  includes the conviction of a felony or a misdemeanor for a violation  of  section  eleven  hundred ninety-two of this chapter for which a youthful  offender finding was substituted and upon such a finding there shall  be  levied  an  additional  surcharge,  in addition to any sentence or other  surcharge required or permitted by law, to the same extent  and  in  the  same  manner  and  amount provided by this section for conviction of the  felony or misdemeanor, as the case  may  be,  for  which  such  youthful  offender finding was substituted.