California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from City of Victorville v. County of San Bernardino, 233 Cal.App.3d 1312, 285 Cal.Rptr. 206 (Cal. App. 1991):
The county suggests, however, that we should ignore the unambiguous language of the statutes and conclude that the revenue allocation provision of section 1203.1 applies to conditional sentence fines payable through the county probation department because a contrary construction would create "absurd results." (See People v. Clark (1990) 50 Cal.3d 583, 605, 268 Cal.Rptr. 399, 789 P.2d 127.)
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