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State | Statute | Description/Statute Name | Statutory language | Amount | Level of offense | Mandatory | Imposed by | Delegation of authority | |
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Louisiana | LA Rev Stat §15:542.D | Sexual Predator Registration Fee |
The offender shall pay to the appropriate law enforcement agencies with whom he is required to register, except for the campus law enforcement agency of an institution of postsecondary education, + See morean annual registration fee of sixty dollars to defray the costs of maintaining the record of the offender. The payment of such a fee shall be made in accordance with any rule regarding indigency adopted by the judges of the judicial district court in the jurisdiction or as determined by criteria established by the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. The offender shall pay such fee upon the initial registration and on the anniversary thereof. Failure by the offender to pay the fee within thirty days of initial registration shall constitute a failure to register and shall subject the offender to prosecution under the provisions of R.S. 15:542.1.4(A)(3). The offender shall not be prevented from registering in accordance with this Section for failure to pay the annual registration fee.
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$60
Annual fee |
All | Yes | Law enforcement | N/A |
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Louisiana | LA Rev Stat § 32:388 A(1) | Traffic violations |
Whoever owns or drives any vehicle or combination of vehicles in violation of any rule, regulation, directive, or requirement of the secretary adopted pursuant to R.S. 32:380 through 385 or + See morein violation of R.S. 32:380 through 385 [traffic laws] shall be assessed a penalty of one hundred dollars for each violation.
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$100 | Traffic | Yes | Law enforcement, Court | N/A |
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Louisiana | LA Rev Stat § 32:388 A(3)(a)-(b) | Weight limit violations - traffic code |
Vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of less than twenty-six thousand pounds shall be penalized one hundred dollars for failure to stop at a weight scale. This penalty shall + See morebe in addition to any other penalties which may be assessed for other violations. . . Vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of twenty-six thousand pounds or more shall be penalized five hundred dollars for failure to stop at a weight scale. This penalty shall be in addition to any other penalties which may be assessed for other violations.
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$100 - $500 | Traffic | Yes | Law enforcement, Court | N/A |
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Louisiana | LA Rev Stat § 32:388 B(1)(c)(3) | Bridge formula axle spacing violation - traffic code |
The owner or driver of a vehicle or combination of vehicles in violation of the bridge formula axle spacing requirements of R.S. 32:386(H) shall be fined fifty dollars for each + See moreviolation.
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$50
Per violation |
Traffic | Yes | Law enforcement, Court | N/A |
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Louisiana | LA Rev Stat § 32:388.1 | Multiple traffic violations |
Whoever owns or drives any vehicle or combination of vehicles in violation of two or more of the provisions of this Part at any one time shall be assessed the + See moregreater or the greatest of the penalties, in the full amount of the penalty. The commissioner is hereby authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to provide that in addition to assessment of the greater or greatest penalty, the owner or driver shall be assessed a penalty not to exceed ten dollars for each other violation committed at the same time; however, such rules and regulations shall only be promulgated provided the Federal Highway Administration initiates official sanctions which would result in the loss of National Highway System apportionment or other federal funds should such penalties for multiple violations not be provided.
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$10
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Highest penalty plus up to $10 per additional violation |
Traffic | Yes | Law enforcement, Court | Authority is delegated to the commissioner of the Department of Motor vehicle Safety to set additional fee |
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Louisiana | LA Rev Stat § 15:708 | Labor by prisoners permitted; workday release program; indemnificaiton |
D.(1)(a) Whenever a person is convicted of a misdemeanor for violation of any state law or any parish or municipal ordinance and is sentenced to imprisonment, the sentencing court may + See moreorder the person so sentenced to report, during the term of imprisonment, to the sheriff to participate in a court-approved workday release program as established and administered by the sheriff.
(b) The person so sentenced shall pay the sum of fifty dollars to the sheriff to defray the cost of participation in the program. The payment of the costs shall be based upon the defendant's ability to pay.
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$50.00 - $50.00 | All | Yes | All | N/A |
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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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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 moremay 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.
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Personal property
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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 moreof 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.
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Prosecution costs for defendants committed to adult correctional institutions shall not be charged to the defendant but paid for by + See morethe state
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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 moreof 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.
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Fee varies based on several factors, including number of miles traveled by witness to appear in court, number of days appearing in + See morecourt, etc.
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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 moreassess 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.
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$3.50 - $0
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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 moreand executions in civil cases.
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Fee equivalent to the cost of fees charged for similar services in civil cases
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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 moresecond 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.
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Fee based on the actual expenses of shriff's travel in serving the writ, not for the act of serving the writ
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All | Yes | All | Court has the discretion to determine fees |
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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 moreany 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.
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$0.00 - $1000.00 | All | Yes | All | N/A |
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