(a)(1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, each person committed to any community correctional center upon conviction of any criminal offense, and held therein only for the payment of a fine, shall be discharged from confinement when the time served by such person at a per diem rate equal to the average daily cost of incarceration as determined by the Commissioner of Correction amounts to such fine or the balance thereof remaining unpaid. Such person shall earn an additional credit of fifty dollars toward such fine or balance thereof remaining unpaid for each day such person is employed at productive or maintenance work and has established a satisfactory work record. In computing the number of days to be served, credit shall be given for Sundays, holidays and the day of admission. Each person so committed shall be released during the day following that which completes the time to be served when computed in accordance with this subdivision, or immediately upon payment of the fine in full.

(2) Each person committed to any community correctional center upon conviction of any criminal offense, and held therein only for the payment of a fine, may be released from confinement by the Commissioner of Correction and, with the agreement of the Court Support Services Division within the Judicial Department, be transferred to said division subject to the requirement that such person perform community service under the supervision of said division until the period of community service performed by such person at the rate of fifty dollars a day amounts to such fine or the balance thereof remaining unpaid. Any person so transferred shall remain under the jurisdiction of the commissioner. Such person shall be discharged from the jurisdiction of the commissioner when such person completes the period of community service required to be performed when computed in accordance with this subdivision or immediately upon payment of the fine in full. If, at any time during such person’s release from confinement pursuant to this subdivision, the commissioner determines that the conduct of such person is unsuitable for continuation in such program of community service, such person may be returned to confinement.

(3) Payments of fines after commitment shall be made to the clerk of the court which imposed the sentence, and such clerk shall thereupon issue a certificate, which shall be delivered to the Community Correctional Center Administrator as evidence of such payment and shall be attached to and retained with the mittimus or other commitment process, except that, if payment is made at any time when the office of such clerk is not open, such payment shall be made to any person designated by the Community Correctional Center Administrator at the community correctional center where such person is confined, and such person so designated shall transmit the payment to the clerk of the court on the first court day thereafter. No person shall be held in confinement for failure to pay a fine after such a certificate showing that such fine has been fully paid has been delivered to the Community Correctional Center Administrator; provided, if a fine is paid to a person designated to accept it when the office of the clerk is not open, the person confined to the community correctional center shall immediately be released without requiring the prior issuance of such certificate.

(b) Payments by persons committed to community correctional centers of fees imposed under the provisions of § 51-56a or costs imposed under the provisions of § 54-143 or 54-143a shall be made to the clerk of the court location which imposed the sentence, except that if payment is made at any time when the office of such clerk is not open, such payment shall be made to any official at the correctional center where such person is confined and such official shall transmit the payment to the clerk of the court on the first court day thereafter.