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Oregon | Or. Rev. Stat. § 5.125 | Collection by state courts |
In the county court there shall be charged and collected in advance by the county clerk as clerk of the court, for the benefit of the county, the following fees, and no more, for the following purposes and services . . .
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Oregon | Or. Rev. Stat. § 137.450 | Enforcement of money judgment in criminal action |
A judgment against the defendant or complainant in a criminal action, so far as it requires the payment of a fine, fee, assessment, costs and disbursements of the action or restitution, may be enforced as a judgment in a civil action.
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Oregon | Or. Rev. Stat. § 137.118(1)-(2) | Assignment of judgments for collection of monetary obligation; costs of collection. [Effective January 1, 2020] |
(1) Judgments in criminal actions that impose monetary obligations, including judgments requiring the payment of fines, costs, assessments, compensatory fines, attorney fees, forfeitures or restitution, may be assigned by the state, by a municipal court or by a justice court for collection.
(2) (a) The state may assign a judgment to the Department of Revenue or a private collection agency. (b) A justice court may assign a judgment to a private collection agency or, in a criminal action, to the Department of Revenue for the purposes described in ORS 156.315. (c) A municipal court may assign a judgment to: (A) A private collection agency; or (B) The Department of Revenue for the purposes described in subsections (6) to (8) of this section, if the judgment was entered in a criminal action and part of the judgment is payable to the State of Oregon. (d) Nothing in this subsection limits the right of a municipal court or a justice court to assign for collection judgments in matters other than criminal actions. |
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Oregon | Or. Rev. Stat. § 1.202 | Fee for establishing and administering account for judgment that includes monetary obligation; fee for judgment referred for collection. |
(1) All circuit courts and appellate courts of this state, and all commissions, departments and divisions in the judicial branch of state government, shall add a fee of not less than $ 50 and not more than $ 200 to any judgment that includes a monetary obligation that the court or judicial branch is charged with collecting. The fee shall cover the cost of establishing and administering an account for the debtor and shall be added without further notice to the debtor or further order of the court. The fee shall be added only if the court gives the defendant a period of time in which to pay the obligation after the financial obligation is imposed. Fees under this subsection shall be deposited in the General Fund.
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Oregon | Or. Rev. Stat. § 305.830 | Collection of fines, penalties and forfeitures; disbursement; cost of collection |
(1) Amounts transferred to the Department of Revenue by justice and municipal courts under ORS 153.633, 153.645, 153.650 and 153.657 shall be deposited in a suspense account established under ORS 293.445 for the purpose of receiving criminal fines and assessments.
(2) In carrying out its duties under this section, the Department of Revenue shall have access to the records and dockets of those courts charged with the duty to transfer moneys to the department under ORS 153.633, 153.645, 153.650 and 153.657. (3) The Department of Revenue may retain from the funds transferred under ORS 153.633, 153.645, 153.650 and 153.657 an amount not to exceed two percent annually for its actual costs of collection and disbursement of funds under this section, including the cost of all examinations, investigations and searches, and of all traveling and other expenses in connection therewith. The department shall deposit the net amount of moneys in the suspense account described in subsection (1) of this section into the Criminal Fine Account. (4) All judicial, municipal and county officers shall cooperate with the Department of Revenue with respect to the collections, searches and investigations and shall furnish the Department of Revenue with any information contained in any of the records under their respective custodies relating thereto. (5) The Department of State Police shall cooperate in the investigation of fines, penalties and forfeitures. |
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Oregon | Or. Rev. Stat. § 156.310 | Payment of fines and costs |
If the fine and costs, or any part thereof, are paid before commitment, they shall be paid to the justice. Thereafter they shall be paid to the officer in whose custody the defendant is at the time of the payment, which officer shall immediately pay the same to the justice.
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 53.1-127.5 | Private collection - by contract with sheriff or jail superintendent | The sheriff or jail superintendent may (i) contract with private attorneys or private collection agencies |
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 53.1-127.5 | Collection agreement - local governing body | The sheriff or jail superintendent may...(ii) enter into an agreement with a local governing body |
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 53.1-127.5 | Collection agreement - county/city treasurer |
The sheriff or jail superintendent may...(iii) enter into an agreement with the county or city treasurer, upon such terms and conditions as may be established by guidelines promulgated by the + See moreBoard, to collect fees imposed under § 53.1-131.3.
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-349(B) | Duties of attorney for the Commonwealth |
B. It shall be the duty of the attorney for the Commonwealth to cause proper proceedings to be instituted for the collection and satisfaction of all fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties + See moreand restitution. The attorney for the Commonwealth shall determine whether it would be impractical or uneconomical for such service to be rendered by the office of the attorney for the Commonwealth. If the defendant does not enter into an installment payment agreement under § 19.2-354, the attorney for the Commonwealth and the clerk may agree to a process by which collection activity may be commenced 30 days after judgment.
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-349(B) | Attorney for Commonwealth - private collection contracts | If the attorney for the Commonwealth does not undertake collection, he shall contract with (i) private attorneys or private collection agencies |
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-349(B) | Attorney for Commonwealth - local governing body collection contracts | If the attorney for the Commonwealth does not undertake collection, he shall...(ii) enter into an agreement with a local governing body |
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-349(B) | Attorney for Commonwealth - county/city treasurer contract | If the attorney for the Commonwealth does not undertake collection, he shall…(iii) enter into an agreement with the county or city treasurer |
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-349(B) | Attorney for Commonwealth - services of the Department of Taxation |
If the attorney for the Commonwealth does not undertake collection, he shall…(iv) use the services of the Department of Taxation, upon such terms and conditions as may be established by + See moreguidelines promulgated by the Office of the Attorney General, the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court with the Department of Taxation and the Compensation Board
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-349(C) | Department of Taxation and State Compensation Board - duty to collect |
C. The Department of Taxation and the State Compensation Board shall be responsible for the collection of any judgment which remains unsatisfied or does not meet the conditions of § + See more19.2-354. Persons owing such unsatisfied judgments or failing to comply with installment payment agreements under § 19.2-354 shall be subject to the delinquent tax collection provisions of Title 58.1.
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-349(C) | Collection by private attorneys or agencies | The Department of Taxation and the State Compensation Board...may employ private attorneys or collection agencies |
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-349(C) | Collection by other state agencies | The Department of Taxation and the State Compensation Board...may...engage other state agencies to collect the judgment. |
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-349.1 | Collection agreement with Department of Motor vehicles |
At the direction of the Committee on District Courts or at the request of a circuit court clerk, the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court may enter into an agreement + See morewith the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles authorizing the Department of Motor Vehicles to receive, on behalf of a district or circuit court, payment of any delinquent fines, costs, forfeitures, and penalties, including any court-ordered restitution of a sum certain, imposed by a court for the violation of a state law or a local ordinance.
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-350 | When sheriff not to receive fines. | When sheriff not to receive fines.No sheriff or other law-enforcement officer shall receive any fine, penalty or costs imposed by a court not of record, except under process duly issued. |
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Wisconsin | Wis. Stat. § 757.05(1)(b) | Penalty surcharge |
(b) If a fine or forfeiture is imposed by a court of record, after a determination by the court of the amount due, the clerk of the court shall collect + See moreand transmit the amount to the county treasurer as provided in s. 59.40 (2) (m). The county treasurer shall then make payment to the secretary of administration as provided in s.59.25 (3) (f) 2.
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