Opinion ID: 1813636
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Heading: Legality of Fine.

Text: The defendant asserts the district court was without authority to impose a fine because neither the robbery statute nor the habitual-offender statute provides for a fine. The State agrees, and so do we. Second-degree robbery is a class C felony. See Iowa Code § 711.3. Section 902.9(4) provides that a class `C' felon, not a habitual offender, . . . shall be sentenced to a fine of at least one thousand dollars but not more than ten thousand dollars. Id. § 902.9(4) (emphasis added). The sentencing statute for a habitual offender simply provides that an offender shall be confined for no more that fifteen years. Id. § 902.9(3). Therefore, the applicable statutes do not authorize a fine as part of the sentence for a habitual offender convicted of second-degree robbery. A sentence not permitted by statute is illegal and void. See State v. Woody, 613 N.W.2d 215, 217 (Iowa 2000). Accordingly, the unauthorized fines imposed as part of the defendant's sentences must be vacated.