P-15 - Summary Convictions Act

Section 64.2 Disposition versions

1983-01-01

64.2. The director of the house of detention or the person in charge of the compensatory work programs may, notwithstanding a warrant of commitment issued by a judge or a clerk of a municipal court contemplated in section 56.1, offer the defendant, according to the availability of the compensatory work programs, to pay the fine then due by means of such work, in accordance with Schedule A.

Where the defendant agrees thereto, sections 63.1 to 63.7, 63.17 and 63.18 apply, and the person who offered the work then acts as collector for the purposes of those sections.

If the defendant refuses or fails to do the compensatory work he has agreed to do, a justice of the peace, on a motion made verbally and exparte, may issue a new warrant of imprisonment, and sections 63.13 to 63.19 apply.

1982, c. 32, s. 9; 1982, c. 58, s. 61.