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(1) The clerk of
the district court may accept payment of a debt owed to the court by a credit
card or debit card. Any person making payment on a debt owed to the court by a
credit card or debit card shall be assessed an electronic payment convenience
fee established by the supreme court, which shall include, among other costs,
the amount charged the court by the issuer for the use of the card. This fee
may also be paid by credit card or debit card and included in the transaction
for the payment of the debt owed to the court. The electronic payment
convenience fee shall be separate from the debt owed to the court and shall be
deposited into the district court fund. The debt owed to the court shall not
be expunged, canceled, released, discharged or satisfied and any receipt or
other evidence of payment shall be deemed conditional until the court has
received final and unconditional payment of the full amount due from the
financing agency or card issuer for the transaction. If an electronic payment
once made is subsequently denied, revoked or otherwise canceled for any
reason, and the payment is withdrawn from the court, the court may proceed as
though payment had never been made.
(2) Definitions. As used in this section:
(a) "Cardholder" means the person or organization named on the face of a
credit card or debit card to whom or for whose benefit the credit card or
debit card is issued by an issuer.
(b) "Credit card" means any instrument or device, whether known as a
credit card or credit plate or by any other name, issued with or without a
fee by an issuer for the use of the cardholder in obtaining money,
property, goods, services or anything else of value on credit.
(c) "Debit card" means any instrument or device, whether known as a debit
card or by any other name, issued with or without a fee by an issuer for
the use of the cardholder in depositing, obtaining or transferring funds.
(d) "Debt owed to the court" means any assessment of fines, court costs,
surcharges, penalties, fees, restitution, cash deposit of bail, moneys
expended in providing counsel and other defense services to indigent
defendants, or other charges which a court judgment has ordered to be paid
to the court or which a party has agreed to pay in criminal or civil cases
and includes any interest or penalty on such unpaid amounts as provided
for in the judgment or by law.
(e) "Issuer" means a business organization, financial institution or
authorized agent of a business organization or financial institution that
issues a credit card or debit card.
(3) The supreme court may adopt rules as deemed appropriate for the
administration of this section and may enter into contracts with an issuer or
other organization to implement the provisions of this section.

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