Poverty Penalties and Poverty Traps

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Maine Me. Rev. Stat. tit 15 §1942 Duty of clerks to collect fines and costs or to issue process for collection

Each clerk of court, in default of payment to him of fines, forfeitures and bills of costs, shall issue warrants of distress, or such other process therefor as the court

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finds necessary to enforce the execution of any order, sentence or judgment in behalf of the State, deliver them to the sheriff, or to such constable as the district attorney directs, and enter of record the name of the officer and the time when they are delivered to him.

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Maine Me. Rev. Stat. tit 15 §2061 Examination of records of clerks and treasurers by district attorney

District attorneys shall examine the records and files in the offices of clerks and the certificates and accounts in the offices of treasurers, relating to fines, forfeitures and bills of

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costs accruing to their counties; ascertain, so far as practicable, the cause of any delinquencies in paying over the same; and move the court for all necessary orders and processes to enforce the collection thereof.

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