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	State	Statute	Description/Statute Name	Statutory language	Amount	Level of offense	Mandatory	Imposed by	Delegation of authority
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Rhode Island	R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-21-23	Seizure and retention of forfeited property	Whenever any personal property shall be forfeited for any violation of law, any deputy sheriff, town sergeant, or town constable, or any person by law authorized to seize the property, + See more may take and retain the property until he or she shall deliver it to a proper officer having a warrant to take and detain the property.	Personal property	All	No	All	N/A
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Rhode Island	R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-20-8	Payment of costs where defendant committed to correctional institutions	The costs of prosecution and conviction of persons imprisoned in the adult correctional institutions shall be paid by the state, and the payment of those costs shall form no part + See more of the sentence of convicts. Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to prevent the imposition of costs provided for in chapter 25 of this title. The cost of commitment shall be paid by the state except as otherwise provided by the general laws; provided, that persons imprisoned in the adult correctional institutions shall be responsible for any assessments made pursuant to § 23-1-3.	Prosecution costs for defendants committed to adult correctional institutions shall not be charged to the defendant but paid for by + See more the state	All	Yes	All	N/A
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Rhode Island	R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-20-7(a)	Witness fees	(1) For every day's attendance before the supreme or superior court, or before any other tribunal or magistrate, including attendance in giving depositions, except that no officer or other employee + See more of the state or of any city or town shall be entitled to receive a fee for attendance if he or she attends during his or her regular hours of employment for which he or she is entitled to receive his or her ordinary salary or if he or she appears outside his or her regular hours of employment and is entitled to receive additional compensation from his or her employer for attendance: $10.00(2) For every mile's travel: $0.10 (3) For every day's commitment in jail upon default to enter into recognizance with surety: $2.00 (4) For any witness who shall come from without the jurisdiction of the state to testify in behalf of the state, in any criminal proceedings, any sum, in addition to this travel and attendance, that the court before which the proceedings are had shall deem proper.	Fee varies based on several factors, including number of miles traveled by witness to appear in court, number of days appearing in + See more court, etc.	All	Yes	All	N/A
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Rhode Island	R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-20-6	Fees of city and town police departments and state agencies	For each criminal complaint filed in the district court by a city or town police department, the state police, or a state agency, the clerk of the district court shall + See more assess against the defendant and remit to the city or town or the state the sum of three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50), to be taxed as costs against the defendant.	$3.50 - $0 Fee is per criminal complaint filed against the defendant + See more	All	Yes	All	N/A
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Rhode Island	R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-20-4	Sheriff's fees on scire facias.	The fees chargeable by deputy sheriffs for serving writs and executions in scire facias against bail in criminal cases shall be the same as provided for similar service of writs + See more and executions in civil cases.	Fee equivalent to the cost of fees charged for similar services in civil cases	All	Yes	All	N/A
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Rhode Island	R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-20-3	Sheriff's fees on commitments and habeas corpus.	All commitments upon process issued in criminal cases by the supreme court, the superior court within and for the counties of Providence and Newport, and the district court for the + See more second and sixth divisions shall be made by deputy sheriffs attending upon the courts respectively, and all writs of habeas corpus issued by the supreme court, the superior court within and for the counties of Providence and Newport, and the district court for the second and sixth divisions shall be served by deputy sheriffs attending upon the courts respectively, and the deputy sheriffs shall receive no fees for making the commitments or for serving the writs, but shall receive their actual expenses of travel, to be allowed by the court, and which shall not form a part of the bill of costs taxed against a convict under § 12-20-9.	Fee based on the actual expenses of shriff's travel in serving the writ, not for the act of serving the writ + See more	All	Yes	All	Court has the discretion to determine fees
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Rhode Island	R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-25-23(c)	Terms of the award	Any person who: (1) submits a false or fraudulent application; (2) intentionally makes or causes to be made any false statement or representation of a material fact in relation to + See more any claim pending before the office; or (3) intentionally conceals or fails to disclose information affecting the amount or the initial or continued right to any award; shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both.	$0.00 - $1000.00	All	Yes	All	N/A
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Virginia	Va. Code Ann. § 53.1-116.1:02	Jailer issued identification	Prior to the release or discharge of any prisoner, if the prisoner does not already possess a government-issued identification card, the sheriff, jail superintendent, or other jail administrator may issue + See more that prisoner a special identification card to be given to the prisoner upon his release. The sheriff, jail superintendent, or other jail administrator may establish a procedure for securing such identification through the Department of Motor Vehicles. All costs and fees associated with obtaining such special identification card shall be paid by the prisoner.	Costs and fees of I.D. card	All	No	Law enforcement	Delegation to Sheriff or jail superintendent/administrator
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Virginia	Va. Code Ann. § 53.1-127.2.	Fees for electronic visitation and messaging with prisoners in local correctional facilities.	Each sheriff or jail superintendent who operates a correctional facility that utilizes an electronic visitation system or electronic messaging system, including Voice-over-Internet Protocol technology and web-based communication systems, for communication + See more between prisoners and third parties is authorized to provide for the establishment and collection of a fee for the system utilized.	Fee for communication system	All	No	Law enforcement	Delegation to Sheriff or jail superintendent
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Virginia	Va. Code Ann. § 53.1-131.1.	Provision for sentencing of person to nonconsecutive days in jail; payment to defray costs; penalty.	A person sentenced pursuant to this section shall pay an amount to defray the cost of his keep, which amount shall be the actual cost of incarceration but shall not + See more exceed that amount charged to the Compensation Board for purposes of reimbursement as provided in the general appropriation act. Such amount shall be collected by the sheriff, if he is responsible for operating a jail, or by the regional jail superintendent, and remitted by the sheriff to the treasurer of the appropriate county or city, or by the regional jail superintendent to the regional jail board or authority, solely for the purposes of defraying the costs of such weekend or nonconsecutive incarceration	Cost of incarceration	All	Yes	Law enforcement	Delegation to Sheriff or jail superintendent
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Virginia	Va. Code Ann. § 53.1-131.2	Assignment to a home/electronic incarceration program; payment to defray costs; escape; penalty.	G. The director or administrator of a home/electronic incarceration program shall charge the offender or accused a fee for participating in the program to pay for the cost of home/electronic + See more incarceration equipment. The offender or accused shall be required to pay the program for any damage to the equipment which is in his possession or for failure to return the equipment to the program.	cost of home/electronic incarceration equipment	All	Yes	Law enforcement	Delegation to director or administrator of a home/electronic incarceration program
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Virginia	Va. Code Ann. § 53.1-131.3	Payment of costs associated with prisoners' keep	Any sheriff or jail superintendent may establish a program to charge inmates a reasonable fee, not to exceed $3 per day, to defray the costs associated with the prisoners' keep. + See more The Board shall develop a model plan and adopt regulations for such program, and shall provide assistance, if requested, to the sheriff or jail superintendent in the implementation of such program. Such funds shall be retained in the locality where the funds were collected and shall be used for general jail purposes; however, in the event the jail is a regional jail, funds collected from any such fee shall be retained by the regional jail.	$0 - $3	All	No	Law enforcement	Delegation to Sheriff or jail superintendent
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Virginia	Va. Code Ann. § 53.1-133.4	Participant compensation	In addition, participants working in the jail industry program may have payroll deductions withheld and may be required by the sheriff, jail superintendent or his designee to contribute to victim + See more restitution funds and to operating costs associated with the jail industry program. The total deductions must not total more than eighty percent of the participant's gross wages. The amount so deducted shall be deposited in the jail industries revenue fund	Operating cost of jail industry program	All	No	Law enforcement	Delegation to Sheriff or jail superintendent/designee

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