(a) The director shall deposit all money received from participants pursuant to a consolidated repayment schedule into the Second Chance Driver’s License Program Account. The director shall prorate, separate and identify the portion of each payment that constitutes payment of a fine, forfeiture or penalty in accordance with the information provided to the director pursuant to subsection (c), section five of this article.
(b) After deposit of a participant’s monthly payment into this account, the director shall make disbursements from this account as follows:
(1) Portions of payments identified as payment of a fine, forfeiture or penalty shall be disbursed to the courts identified in the repayment schedule;
(2) Ninety-five percent of the portions of the payments remaining after payment as required in subdivision (1) of this subsection shall be disbursed to the courts identified in the participant’s consolidated repayment schedule. Courts shall accept and document these payments of ninety-five percent of the total unpaid court costs, not including court costs received pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection, as payment in full of the amount owed by the participant to the court for this portion of court costs owed; and
(3) The portion of the payments remaining in the account after payment of the court costs in subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection may be appropriated by the Legislature to be expended for costs incurred by the director in the administration of this article.
(c) Courts that receive disbursements pursuant to subsection (b) of this section are responsible for making statutory disbursements of amounts received in satisfaction of unpaid court costs according to the requirements of the code.
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