Bail Calculation and Parking Citations

• Bail is calculated one violation at a time and only for undisposed violations.

• General ledger entries are not made when bail is calculated, because until the violation is disposed, the bail is not considered part of the case. If the fees are accrual-based, the general ledger entries are made when the violation is disposed; if the fees are cash-based, the entries are made when the violation is disposed and payment is taken against the fees.

• You must be set up to create fees for the case before you can calculate bail; otherwise, you receive an error advising you that you do not have permission to create fees for the case.

• The bail calculation process calculates bail based on rules established on the Uniform Bail/Penalty Rule form (CTRUBPS). Bail for a violation can be a set amount or it can be a percentage of all fees, both real and assessed. The bail calculation process determines which rule to use based on:

• Court and location.

• Violation.

In the case of a rule that calculates bail based on a percentage of all fees, the process determines assessed fees based on the date used to assess fees. This is set as either Violation Date or Filing Date for all detail codes on the Accounts Receivable Control form (CBACTRL), but that setting can be overridden for individual detail codes on the Uniform Bail/Penalty Schedule Rule form (CTRUBPS). The choices for individual detail codes on CTRUBPS are: Violation Date, Filing Date, or Assessed Date. If the violation has not been disposed, "Assessed Date" uses the current date to calculate bail.

If no rules exist with an effective date range that includes the violation date, filing date, or assessed date (synonymous with current date for the purposes of bail calculation), then bail calculation returns a zero amount.

• If bail has been previously calculated and then needs to be re-calculated, the process removes the original bail amount and replaces it with the new amount.