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Louisiana | CCRP 914.1 | Designation of record; payment of costs; sanction |
(2) Except in indigent cases, the costs for preparing the transcript must be paid to the court reporter or the appropriate agency and the costs as required for filing + See morethe appeal must be paid in the appellate court, both within twenty days of the mailing of notice, including the payment of any additional costs owed upon notice.
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costs for preparing the transcript
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Louisiana | RS 13: 847 | Fees in criminal cases; exceptions |
A. The clerks of court may charge the following fees and no more in all criminal cases:
(1) For filing, docketing, and registering an affidavit, thirty-five cents.
(2) For + See morefiling appearance bond, thirty-five cents.
(3) For filing testimony, thirty-five cents.
(4) For filing a bill of information, thirty-five cents.
(5) Orders bringing accused into court and remanding from court to prison in each case for one or more accused, fifty cents.
(6) For arraignment of one or more accused and entering the several pleas, in each case, seventy-five cents.
(7) For notice of trial to principal, fifty cents.
(8) For subpoenas to witnesses, copies, and seal, forty cents.
(9) For attachments to bring witnesses, summons, subpoenas, court orders for arrest, fifty cents.
(10) For calling, presenting, swearing, and impaneling petit jury, in each case, seventy-five cents.
(11) For copy of indictment or information and jury list, to be served on accused when required by law, in each case, one dollar twenty-five cents.
(12) For swearing witnesses, thirty cents.
(13) For reading indictments or information and plea to jury, fifty cents.
(14) For receiving, reading, recording, and filing indictment of grand jury, seventy-five cents.
(15) For notice of arraignment to principals and security, fifty cents.
(16) For issuing capias, seventy-five cents.
(17) For entering sentence of judgment, seventy-five cents.
(18) For copy of sentence with certificate and seal, seventy-five cents.
(19) For calling, forfeiting, and entering judgment on appearance bond, one dollar twenty-five cents.
(20) For notice of judgment, fifty cents.
(21) For calling and continuance in each case, thirty-five cents.
(22) For each and every order of court entered on the minutes not otherwise provided for, thirty-five cents.
(23) For copies of same, and certificate with seal, forty cents.
(24) For filing return on all writs, subpoenas and notices, thirty-five cents.
(25) For each commitment, seventy-five cents.
(26) For each subpoena duces tecum, seventy-five cents.
(27) For filing plea and abatement of special plea in bar or plea in quasi information or indictment, thirty-five cents.
(28) For appointment of counsel and copy of same, seventy-five cents.
(29) For motion asking for a new trial or in arrest of judgment, and copy, fifty cents.
(30) For taking affidavit and swearing to the same, fifty cents.
(31) For issuing any other notice not provided for above, fifty cents.
(32) For filing any other pleading not provided for above, per page, fifty cents.
(33) For affixing seal on any notice, act, or copy, not provided for above, fifty cents.
(34) For microfilming any of the above mentioned pleadings necessary, fifty cents.
(35) For copies of any of the above mentioned pleadings, per page, fifty cents.
(36) For certification of any of the above mentioned, per page, fifty cents.
(37) For postage on any notices mailed, each, fifty cents.
(38) For indexing any of the above mentioned, per name, fifty cents. B. The funds derived by the clerk of court in the parish of Calcasieu from that portion of the fees collectable pursuant to this Section above the amount of such fees collectable at the rates provided by R.S. 13:847 prior to the amendment thereof at the 1981 Regular Session of the Legislature shall be expended exclusively for the payment of additional salaries of deputy clerks of court in that parish.
C. Whenever the clerk of court receives an order to make a copy of the pleadings in a criminal case which has been appealed in a federal court, the clerk shall furnish the copies requested upon receipt of payment from the appellant, except an indigent, in accordance with the fee schedule.
D. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection A, and in addition to other fees fixed by law, the clerk of court in St. Landry Parish shall be entitled to demand and receive an additional five dollars for every traffic ticket that is processed by the office of the clerk. Fifty percent of these funds shall be used to defray the operational expenses of the criminal division of the clerk of court's office. The remaining fifty percent of the fee shall be used for the St. Landry Parish Police Jury Juror and Witness Fee Fund.
E.(1) Notwithstanding Subsection A and in addition to other fees fixed by law, the clerk of court in Jefferson Parish shall be entitled to demand and receive:
(a) A two-dollar processing fee for every extension of time granted for payment of a fine for a traffic ticket.
(b) A fee of seven dollars and fifty cents for every attachment issued to bring witnesses, summons, subpoenas, and court orders for arrest.
(c) A filing and processing fee of one hundred dollars for all felony expungement proceedings filed in the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 44:9, regardless of whether the expungement is filed after a conviction is set aside and the prosecution is dismissed pursuant to the provisions of Code of Criminal Procedure Article 893.
(d) A filing and processing fee of fifty dollars for all misdemeanor expungement proceedings filed in the First Parish Court for the parish of Jefferson, the Second Parish Court for the parish of Jefferson, and the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 44:9, regardless of whether the expungement is filed after a conviction is set aside and the prosecution is dismissed pursuant to the provisions of Code of Criminal Procedure Article 894.
(2) These funds shall be used to defray the operational expenses of the criminal division of the clerk of court's office.
F.(1) Notwithstanding Subsection A of this Section and in addition to other fees fixed by law, the clerk of a district court in a parish with a population of between forty-two thousand eight hundred and forty-three thousand five hundred according to the latest federal decennial census shall be entitled to demand and receive:
(a) A filing and processing fee of one hundred dollars for all felony expungement proceedings filed in the district court pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 44:9, regardless of whether the expungement is filed after a conviction is set aside and the prosecution is dismissed pursuant to the provisions of Code of Criminal Procedure Article 893.
(b) A filing and processing fee of fifty dollars for all misdemeanor expungement proceedings filed in the district court pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 44:9, regardless of whether the expungement is filed after a conviction is set aside and the prosecution is dismissed pursuant to the provisions of Code of Criminal Procedure Article 894.
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various fees in criminal cases
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North Carolina | N.C. Gen. Stat. Ann. § 15A-1374 | Continuous Alcohol Monitoring Fee (parolees only) |
The Commission must require as a condition of parole that the parolee pay a supervision fee of forty dollars ($40.00) per month. The Commission may exempt a parolee from this + See morecondition of parole only if it finds that requiring him to pay the fee will constitute an undue economic burden. The fee must be paid to the clerk of superior court of the county in which the parolee was convicted. The clerk must transmit any money collected pursuant to this subsection to the State to be deposited in the general fund of the State. In no event shall a person released on parole be required to pay more than one supervision fee per month.
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$40 - $0
$40 per month |
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North Carolina | N.C. Gen. Stat. Ann. § 15A-1368.4(f) | Supervision Fee | The Commission shall require as a condition of post-release supervision that the supervisee pay a supervision fee of forty dollars ($40.00) per month. |
$40 - $0
$40 per month |
All | Yes | Supervision agency | N/A |
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Oregon | Or. Rev. Stat. § 144.102 | conditions of post-prison supervisions |
(h) Attend a victim impact treatment session in a county that has a victim impact program. If the board or supervisory authority requires attendance under this paragraph, the board or + See moresupervisory authority may require the person, as an additional condition of post-prison supervision, to pay a reasonable fee to the victim impact program to offset the cost of the person’s participation. The board or supervisory authority may not order a person to pay a fee in excess of $5 under this paragraph.
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$0.00 - $5.00 | All | No | Supervision agency | No |
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 42A.607 | Confinement as part of community supervision - disposition of salary |
If a defendant who is required as a condition of community supervision to serve a term of confinement. . . is not required by the judge to deliver the defendant's + See moresalary to the restitution center director, the employer of the defendant shall deliver the salary to the director. The director shall deposit the salary into a fund to be given to the defendant on release after the director deducts:(1) the cost to the center for the defendant's food, housing, and supervision;(2) the necessary expense for the defendant's travel to and from work and community service projects, and other incidental expenses of the defendant;(3) support of the defendant's dependents; and(4) restitution to the victims of an offense committed by the defendant.
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cost of housing, plus travel, plus child support, plus victim restitution, plus other incidental expenses
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All | Yes | Supervision agency | N/A |
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Vermont | Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 13 § 301 | Posting utility poles | A person who paints or posts a sign, advertisement, or notice on a telegraph, telephone, or electric light pole shall be fined $5.00 for each offense. | $5.00 - $5.00 | Misdemeanor | Yes | All | N/A |
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Vermont | Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 13 § 302 | Advertising littering streets |
A person who by himself, herself, servant or agent, advertises an entertainment or occupation, by throwing posters, bills, or advertising sheets of any kind, loose in a public street or + See morehighway, shall be fined not more than $50.00 nor less than $5.00, with costs.
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$5.00 - $50.00 | Misdemeanor | Yes | All | N/A |
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Arkansas | Ark. Code Ann. § 16-93-104 | Supervision fee -- Direct payment by offender -- Failure to pay | (a) (1) Any offender on probation, parole, or transfer under supervision of the Department of Community Correction shall pay to the department a monthly fee of thirty-five dollars ($35.00). |
$35
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All | Yes | Supervision agency | N/A |
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Connecticut | Conn. Gen. Stat. § 18-100e(d) | Pilot zero-tolerance drug supervision program urinalysis fee |
(d) Any person who has submitted to a urinalysis drug test pursuant to subsection (c) of this section that produced a positive result may request that a second urinalysis drug + See moretest be administered, at such persons expense, to confirm the results of the first test, except that if the participant is determined to be indigent, based upon financial affidavits, the Department of Correction shall pay the cost of the test. The second drug test shall be a urinalysis drug test, separate and independent of the initial test.
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cost of the test
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All | No | Supervision agency | no |
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Connecticut | Conn. Gen. Stat. § 18-84a(c) | Discharge savings account deduction |
(c) Whenever the amount in the inmates discharge savings account equals one thousand dollars, the commissioner shall impose a deduction of ten per cent on all deposits credited to the + See moreinmates individual account to the extent necessary to reimburse the state for the costs of the inmates incarceration pursuant to section 18-85a and regulations adopted in accordance with said section.
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$10
+ See more10% of any deposits made when the account is over $1000 |
All | Yes | Supervision agency | no |
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Connecticut | Conn. Gen. Stat. § 18-85a(a) | Assessment for costs of incarceration |
(a) The Commissioner of Correction shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, concerning the assessment of inmates of correctional institutions or facilities for the costs of + See moretheir incarceration
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costs of incarceration as set by the commissioner
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All | Yes | Supervision agency | delegation to commissioner of department of corrections |
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Connecticut | Conn. Gen. Stat. § 18-85a(b) | Program Fees | the commissioner may assess a fee for participation in any such job training, skill development or career opportunity or enhancement program |
fee assessed for participation in program
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All | No | Supervision agency | delegation to commissioner of department of corrections |
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Connecticut | Conn. Gen. Stat. § 51-33 | Punishment for contempt of court |
Any court, including a family support magistrate, may punish by fine and imprisonment any person who in its presence behaves contemptuously or in a disorderly manner; but no court or + See morefamily support magistrate may impose a greater fine than one hundred dollars or a longer term of imprisonment than six months or both.
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$0 - $100
no court or family support magistrate may impose a greater fine than one hundred dollars or a longer term of imprisonment than six months or both
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Florida | Fla. Stat. §828.27(4)(b) | Local animal control or cruelty ordinances; penalty |
The governing body of a county or municipality may impose and collect a surcharge of up to $5 upon each civil penalty imposed for violation of an ordinance relating to + See moreanimal control or cruelty. The proceeds from such surcharges shall be used to pay the costs of training for animal control officers.
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$5
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Misdemeanor | No | Local jurisdiction | The governing body of a county or municipality |
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Florida | Fla. Stat. §828.27(7) | Local animal control or cruelty ordinances; penalty |
Nothing contained in this section shall prevent any county or municipality from enacting any ordinance relating to animal control or cruelty which is identical to the provisions of this chapter + See moreor any other state law, except as to penalty. However, no county or municipal ordinance relating to animal control or cruelty shall conflict with the provisions of this chapter or any other state law. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, the governing body of any county or municipality is authorized to enact ordinances prohibiting or regulating noise from any domesticated animal, violation of which shall be punishable upon conviction by a fine not to exceed $500 or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed 60 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for each violation of such ordinance. This subsection shall not apply to animals on land zoned for agricultural purposes.
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$0 - $500
per each violation of the ordinance |
Misdemeanor | No | Local jurisdiction | The governing body of a county or municipality |
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Florida | Fla. Stat. §318.18(14) | Amount of penalties |
In addition to any penalties imposed for noncriminal traffic infractions under this chapter or imposed for criminal violations listed in s. 318.17, any unit of local government that is consolidated + See moreas provided by s. 9, Art. VIII of the State Constitution of 1885, as preserved by s. 6(e), Art. VIII of the State Constitution of 1968, and that is granted the authority in the State Constitution to exercise all the powers of a municipal corporation, and any unit of local government operating under a home rule charter adopted pursuant to ss. 10, 11, and 24, Art. VIII of the State Constitution of 1885, as preserved by s. 6(e), Art. VIII of the State Constitution of 1968, that is granted the authority in the State Constitution to exercise all the powers conferred now or hereafter by general law upon municipalities, may impose by ordinance a surcharge of up to $15 for any infraction or violation. Revenue from the surcharge shall be transferred to such unit of local government for the purpose of replacing fine revenue deposited into the clerks fine and forfeiture fund under s. 142.01. The court may not waive this surcharge. Proceeds from the imposition of the surcharge authorized in this subsection shall not be used for the purpose of securing payment of the principal and interest on bonds.
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$0 - $15 | Traffic | No | Local jurisdiction | Local government |
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Kentucky | Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 31.211 | Public Advocate Fee |
At arraignment, the court shall conduct a nonadversarial hearing to determine whether a person who has requested a public defender is able to pay a partial fee for legal representation, + See morethe other necessary services and facilities of representation, and court costs. The court shall order payment in an amount determined by the court and may order that the payment be made in a lump sum or by installment payments to recover money for representation provided under this chapter. This partial fee determination shall be made at each stage of the proceedings.
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Costs of representation
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Montana | Mont. Code Ann. § 46-23-1022 | Parole services |
(1)To assist parolees the department may, in addition to other services, provide the following: (a) employment counseling, job placement, and assistance in residential placement; (b) family and individual counseling and + See moretreatment placement; (c) financial counseling; (d) vocational and educational counseling and placement; and (e) referral services to any other state or local agencies.
(2) The department may purchase necessary services for a parolee if they are otherwise unavailable and the parolee is unable to pay for them. It may assess all or part of the costs of such services to a parolee in accordance with the parolee's ability to pay for them.
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New York | N.Y. Exec. Law § 257-c | Probation Administrative Fee (DWI) |
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every county and the city of New York, may adopt a local law requiring individuals currently serving or who shall be sentenced to a + See moreperiod of probation upon conviction of any crime under article thirty-one of the vehicle and traffic law to pay to the local probation department with the responsibility of supervising the probationer an administrative fee of thirty dollars per month.
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$30.00 - $30.00 | All | No | Supervision agency | Delegation to counties |
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