Current through August 26, 2024
(1) APPLICABILITY.
A person who is required to register as a sex offender under s.
301.45,
Stats., shall be charged a registration fee to partially offset the costs of
monitoring registrants.
(2)
DEFINITIONS. In this section:
(a) "Custody"
means being under the authority of the department as an inmate, a probationer,
parolee, or person subject to extended supervision under s.
302.113,
Stats.
(b) "Offender" means a
person on probation, parole, or extended supervision under s.
302.113,
Stats.
(c) "Registrant" means a
person required to register as a sex offender under s.
301.45,
Stats.
(3) FEE. The sex
offender registration fee shall be $100.00 on an annual basis.
(4) RECORDING OF REGISTRATION FEE. With
reference to the sex offender registration fee under sub. (3), the department
shall do the following:
(a) Record all
registration fees paid by a registrant.
(b) Provide the registrant access to a copy
of the record of payments to verify receipt of payments.
(c) Advise the registrant of nonpayment of
registration fees.
(d) Audit the
record of payment of registration fees.
(5) COLLECTION OF REGISTRATION FEE. In
collecting the sex offender registration fee, all of the following shall occur:
(a) The department shall do the following:
1. Establish a registration fee payment
schedule including all of the following:
a. A
grace period for the initial registration fee payment.
b. A deadline for payment for each subsequent
year of registration.
2.
Approve procedures for the collection of registration fees.
3. Provide the registrant with a copy of the
sex offender registration fee payment procedures.
4. Credit those moneys collected to the
appropriation account under s.
20.410(1) (gd), Stats.
(b) The registrant shall pay the sex offender
registration fee to the department according to the procedures established by
the department.
(6)
DEPARTMENT ACTION WHEN A REGISTRANT FAILS TO PAY REGISTRATION FEE. The
department may use any of the following actions in any order when a registrant
fails to pay the sex offender registration fee:
(a) Counseling.
(b) Wage assignment.
(c) Review of supervision or custody level to
determine if more restrictive sanctions are needed, including an increase in
the level of supervision, increase in the security level of custody, or
electronic monitoring or detention in a jail, correctional facility or house of
correction for those on probation, parole or extended supervision.
(d) Issue a recommendation for revocation of
parole, probation, or extended supervision for an offender's willful failure to
pay the sex offender registration fee.
(e) Any other appropriate means of obtaining
the sex offender registration fee.
