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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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Delaware | 11 Del. C. § 4104(b) | Fines, Costs or Restitution; How Collected; Holding Operator's License as Security for Payment |
Any court, including a justice of the peace, may, in its discretion, permit any person sentenced to pay a fine upon conviction of crime, in lieu of the payment of the fine ordered, to execute a bond acknowledging the amount of the fine imposed upon the person as a debt due and owing to this State and binding the person unto this State in an amount equal to 10 times the fine imposed. The bond shall be so conditioned that, should the amount of the fine imposed be paid to this State on or before the tenth day next following the day on which the fine is imposed, then in that event the bond shall be null and void.
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Collection fee/interest | All | No |
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Illinois | 730 Ill. Comp. Stat. 5/5-9-3(e) | Fines: Default |
An additional fee of 30% of the delinquent amount and each taxable court cost including, without limitation, costs of service of process, shall be charged to the offender for any amount of the fine, fee, cost, restitution, or judgment of bond forfeiture or installment of the fine, fee, cost, restitution, or judgment of bond forfeiture that remains unpaid after the time fixed for payment of the fine, fee, cost, restitution, or judgment of bond forfeiture by the court.
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Collection fee/interest | All | Yes |
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Illinois | 730 Ill. Comp. Stat. 5/5-9-3(e) | Fines: Default |
A default in payment of a fine, fee, cost, restitution, or judgment of bond forfeiture shall draw interest at the rate of 9% per annum. |
Collection fee/interest | All | Yes |
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Illinois | 725 Ill. Comp. Stat. 5/113-3.1(g) | Payment for Court-Appointed Counsel |
A defendant who fails to obey any order of court entered under this Section may be punished for contempt of court. Any arrearage in payments may be reduced to judgment in the court's discretion and collected by any means authorized for the collection of money judgments under the law of this State.
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Collection fee/interest | All | No |
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