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court may revoke probation as specified in section 1206, unless the
person shows that failure to pay was not attributable to a willful
refusal to pay or to a failure on that person's part to make a good
faith effort to obtain the funds required for the payment. The
court, if it determines that revocation of probation is not
warranted, shall issue a judgment for the total amount of the fees
and shall issue an order attaching a specified portion of money
received by or owed to the person on probation until the total
amount of the fees has been paid. If the person makes this
showing, the court may allow additional time for payment within the
remaining period of probation or reduce the size of the fees, but
may not revoke the requirement to pay the fees unless the remaining
period of probation is 30 days or less. Fees received from
probationers must be deposited into the department's Correctional
Program Improvement Fund adult community corrections account,
except that when authorized by the Department of Corrections, a
person on probation may be required to pay fees directly to a
provider of electronic monitoring, substance testing or other
services. Funds from this account, which may not lapse, must be
used to defray costs associated with the purchase and operation of
electronic monitoring and substance testing programs.

 
Sec. A-5. 17-A MRSA §1253, sub-§2, as amended by PL 2003, c. 205, §6,
is further amended to read:

 
2. Each person sentenced to imprisonment who has previously
been detained for the conduct for which the sentence is imposed
in any state facility or county institution or facility or in any
local lockup awaiting trial, during trial, post-trial awaiting
sentencing or post-sentencing prior to the date on which the
sentence commenced to run either to await transportation to the
place of imprisonment specified, or pursuant to court order, and
not in execution of any other sentence of confinement, is
entitled to receive a day-for-day deduction from the total term
of imprisonment required under that sentence. Each person is
entitled to receive the same deduction for any such period of
detention in any federal, state or county institution, local
lockup or similar facility in another jurisdiction, including any
detention resulting from being a fugitive from justice, as
defined by Title 15, section 201, subsection 4, unless the person
is simultaneously being detained for non-Maine conduct.

 
For the purpose of calculating the day-for-day deduction
specified by this subsection, a "day" means 24 hours.

 
The total term required under the sentence of imprisonment is
reduced by the total deduction of this subsection prior to
applying any of the other deductions specified in this section or
in Title 30-A, section 1606.


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