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Poverty Penalties and Poverty Traps
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Below are the poverty penalties and poverty traps that meet your search criteria. Many include a See related provisions prompt which searches our database for laws that may pertain to your result.
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Ohio | Ohio Rev. Code § 2947.23(C) | Judgment for costs and jury fees |
The court retains jurisdiction to waive, suspend, or modify the payment of the costs of prosecution, including any costs under section 2947.231 of the Revised Code, at the time of sentencing or at any time thereafter.
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Payment plan/installment plan | All | No |
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Ohio | Ohio Rev. Code § 1901.44(A)(2) | Community service in lieu of court costs; failure to pay |
Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code, if at the time of sentencing or at any time after sentencing a municipal court finds that a person who is found guilty of an offense will not be able to pay costs in full when they are due, the court may order the offender to pay the costs in installments according to a schedule set by the court.
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Payment plan/installment plan | All | No |
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Ohio | Ohio Rev. Code § 2929.37(B)(1) | Policy requiring prisoner to pay costs of confinement |
Each prisoner covered by a repayment policy adopted as described in division (A) of this section shall receive at the end of the prisoner's confinement an itemized bill of the expenses to be reimbursed. The policy shall allow periodic payments on a schedule to be implemented upon a prisoner's release.
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Payment plan/installment plan | All | Yes |
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Ohio | Ohio Rev. Code § 2929.37(D) | Policy requiring prisoner to pay costs of confinement |
The reimbursement coordinator may collect any amounts remaining unpaid on an itemized bill and any costs associated with the enforcement of the judgment and may enter into a contract with one or more public agencies or private vendors to collect any amounts remaining unpaid. For enforcing a judgment issued under this section, the reimbursement coordinator may assess an additional poundage fee of two per cent of the amount remaining unpaid and may collect costs associated with the enforcement of the judgment.
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Increased fine | All | No |
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Ohio | Ohio Rev. Code § 1907.25(A)(2) | Community service in lieu of court costs; failure to pay |
Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code, if at the time of sentencing or at any time after sentencing a county court finds that a person who is found guilty of an offense will not be able to pay costs in full when they are due, the court may order the offender to pay the costs in installments according to a schedule set by the court.
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Payment plan/installment plan | All | No |
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Ohio | Ohio Rev. Code § 2929.18(A)(1) | Financial sanctions; restitution; reimbursements |
If the court imposes restitution, the court may order that the offender pay a surcharge of not more than five per cent of the amount of the restitution otherwise ordered to the entity responsible for collecting and processing restitution payments.
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Increased fine | All | No |
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