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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="7-503" title_number="7" title_name="Costs, Fines, and Forfeitures" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Fines and Forfeitures">
  <level label="a">
    <text>When a court imposes a fine, the court may order the defendant to pay the fine:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>When the court imposes sentence; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In specified installments at designated intervals.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If a fine is payable in installments, the court may order that the payments be made to a probation agency or officer.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The probation agency or officer shall report to the court a failure to comply with the order.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If a court sentences a defendant to probation, the court may make payment of a fine a condition of the sentence.</text>
  </level>
</section>
