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Delaware | 11 Del. C. § 9006 | Function of the Agency |
The Agency, subject to the approval of the Department of Justice, shall have the following functions, powers and duties: ...(8) To reimburse other governmental agencies pursuant to this chapter for emergency awards to victims, secondary victims, or claimants;(9) To recover through reimbursement by the criminal defendant the full amount of compensation paid to victims of crimes committed by the defendant; (10) To recover through reimbursement from victims, claimants, and their dependents funds received from other sources of payment, as set forth herein
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Delaware | 11 Del. C. § 9014(a) | Recovery From the Criminal |
Whenever any person is convicted of an offense and a payment of compensation is, or has been, made under this chapter for a personal injury or death resulting from the act constituting such offense, the State may institute an action against such person for the recovery of the whole or any specified part of the compensation in any Superior Court within the State, or in any other court, either state or federal, if such court has custody or control of funds of the criminal or which may be awarded to the criminal. Any amounts recovered under this section shall be deposited to the fund which finances the administration of this chapter.
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Delaware | 10 Del. C. § 9708 | Duties with Respect to Fees; Limitations on Fees |
The justice shall tax the fee for every service specified in this chapter. No other fee shall be allowed and no mileage shall be allowed unless it is expressly given. In no case shall a fee be charged for a service not performed; and every officer or person receiving a fee, shall, upon demand give a receipt specifying the items.
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Delaware | 11 Del. C. § 4101 | Payment of Fines, Costs and Restitution Upon Conviction |
Immediately upon imposition by a court, including a justice of the peace, of any sentence to pay a fine, costs, restitution or all 3, the same shall be a judgment against the convicted person for the full amount of the fine, costs, restitution or all 3, assessed by the sentence. Such judgment shall be immediately executable, enforceable and/or transferable by the State or by the victim to whom such restitution is ordered in the same manner as other judgments of the court.
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Montana | Mont. Code Ann. § 46-17-302(1) | Execution of judgment | The judgment must be executed by the sheriff, constable, marshal, or police officer of the jurisdiction in which the offender was convicted. |
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Montana | Mont. Code Ann. § 46-17-303(2) | Deposit of fines--collection |
(a) The court may contract with a private person or entity for the collection of any final judgment that requires a payment to the court.
(b) In the event that a + See moreprivate person or entity is retained to collect a judgment, the court may assign the judgment to the private person or entity and the private person or entity may, as an assignee, institute suit or other lawful collection procedure and other postjudgment remedies in its own name.
(c) The court, after deducting the charges provided for in 46-18-236, may pay the private person or entity a reasonable fee for collecting the judgment. The fee incurred by the court must be added to the judgment amount.
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Montana | Mont. Code Ann. § 46-17-402(2) | Fees and fines--collection | The municipal court may contract with a private person or entity for the collection of any final judgment that requires a payment to the municipal court. |
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Montana | Mont. Code Ann. § 3-10-601(4) | Collection and disposition of fines, penalties, forfeitures, and fees |
(a) The justice's court may contract with a private person or entity for the collection of any final judgment that requires a payment to the justice's court.
(b) In the event + See morethat a private person or entity is retained to collect a judgment, the justice's court may assign the judgment to the private person or entity and the private person or entity may, as an assignee, institute a suit or other lawful collection procedure and other postjudgment remedies in its own name.
(c) The justice's court may pay the private person or entity a reasonable fee for collecting the judgment. The fee incurred by the justice's court must be added to the judgment amount.
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Montana | Mont. Code Ann. § 46-19-102(3) | Execution of judgment |
(a) The court may contract with a private person or entity for the collection of any fine portion of a judgment.
(b) In the event that a private person or entity + See moreis retained to collect the fine portion of a judgment, the court may assign the fine portion of the judgment to the private person or entity and the private person or entity may, as an assignee, institute suit or other lawful collection procedures and postjudgment remedies in the private person's or entity's own name.
(c) The court, after deducting the charges provided for in 46-18-236, may pay the private person or entity a reasonable fee for collecting the fine portion of a judgment. The fee incurred by the court must be added to the fine portion of the judgment amount.
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Montana | Mont. Code Ann. § 17-4-103 | Collection of claims by department |
The department [of revenue] may examine the collection of money due an agency and institute suits: (i) in its name for official delinquencies in relation to the assessment, collection, and + See morepayment of the revenue; (ii) against persons who possess public money or property and fail to pay over or deliver the money or property; and (iii) against debtors of the agencies.
The courts of the county where the seat of government is located have jurisdiction, without regard to the residence of the defendants, over the collection suits authorized by this section.
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Montana | Mont. Code Ann. § 46-18-241 | Condition of restitution |
The department may contract with a government agency or private entity for the collection of the payments for restitution and the cost of collecting the payments for restitution during the + See moreperiod following state supervision or state custody of the offender.
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Montana | Mont. Code Ann. § 46-18-241 | Condition of restitution |
The department may contract with a government agency or private entity for the collection of the payments for restitution and the cost of collecting the payments for restitution during the + See moreperiod following state supervision or state custody of the offender.
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North Carolina | N.C. Gen. Stat. Ann § 7A-321(b)(2) | Collection of offender fines and fees assessed by the court; collection assistance fee |
(b) In attempting to collect the fines, fees, costs, and restitution owed by offenders not sentenced to supervised probation or active time, the Administrative Office of the Courts may do the following: . . . (2) Enter into contracts with a collection agency, agencies, or municipal or county government agencies to collect unpaid amounts owed. The Administrative Office of the Courts may provide by such contract for the collection assistance fee to be retained by the agency or agencies that collect the amounts owed.
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