Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any county or court that implements or has implemented a comprehensive program to identify and collect delinquent fees, fines, forfeitures, penalties, and assessments, including, but not limited to, public defender fees, with or without a warrant having been issued against the alleged violator, if the base fees, fines, forfeitures, penalties, and assessments are delinquent, may deduct and deposit in the county treasury or in the trial court operations fund the cost of operating that program, excluding capital expenditures, from any revenues collected thereby prior to making any distribution of revenues to other governmental entities required by any other provision of law. Any county or court may establish a minimum base fee, fine, forfeiture, penalty, or assessment amount for inclusion in the program. This section applies to costs incurred by a court or a county on or after June 30, 1997, and prior to the implementation of a time payments agreement, and shall supersede any prior law to the contrary. This section does not apply to a defendant who is paying fees, fines, forfeitures, penalties, or assessments through time payments, unless he or she is delinquent in making payments according to the agreed-upon payment schedule. For purposes of this section, a comprehensive collection program is a separate and distinct revenue collection activity and shall include at least 10 of the following components:
(a) Monthly bill or account statements to all debtors.
(b) Telephone contact with delinquent debtors to apprise them of their failure to meet payment obligations.
(c) Issuance of warning letters to advise delinquent debtors of an outstanding obligation.
(d) Requests for credit reports to assist in locating delinquent debtors.
(e) Access to Employment Development Department employment and wage information.
(f) The generation of monthly delinquent reports.
(g) Participation in the Franchise Tax Board’s Interagency Intercept Collections Program.
(h) The use of Department of Motor Vehicle information to locate delinquent debtors.
(i) The use of wage and bank account garnishments.
(j) The imposition of liens on real property and proceeds from the sale of real property held by a title company.
(k) The filing of a claim or the filing of objections to the inclusion of outstanding fines and forfeitures in bankruptcy proceedings.
(l) Coordination with the probation department to locate debtors who may be on formal or informal probation.
(m) The initiation of driver’s license suspension actions where appropriate.
(n) The capability to accept credit card payments.
(o) Participation in the Franchise Tax Board’s Court-Ordered Debt Collections Program.
(p) Contracting with one or more private debt collectors.
(q) The use of local, regional, state, or national skip tracing or locator resources or services to locate delinquent debtors.
(r) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2012, and, as of January 1, 2013, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2013, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.