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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
+ See more
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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Colorado | Colo. Rev. Stat. § 16-22-108(7)(a) | Sex offender registration fee |
A local law enforcement agency may establish a registration fee to be paid by persons registering and reregistering annually or quarterly with the local law enforcement agency pursuant to the + See moreprovisions of this section. The amount of the fee shall reflect the actual direct costs incurred by the local law enforcement agency in implementing the provisions of this article but shall not exceed seventy-five dollars for the initial registration with the local law enforcement agency and twenty-five dollars for any subsequent annual or quarterly registration.
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$0 - $75
$25 maximum after initial registration |
All | No | Law enforcement | N/A |
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Colorado | Colo. Rev. Stat. § 17-113(a) | Medical visits--charge to inmates |
The department shall assess a copayment, in an amount established by written procedures of the executive director pursuant to subsection (4) of this section, not to exceed five dollars per + See morevisit, against an inmate's account for every inmate-initiated request for medical or mental health services provided to the inmate by a physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, registered nurse, or licensed practical nurse. The department shall assess a copayment, in an amount established by written procedures of the executive director pursuant to subsection (4) of this section, against an inmate's account for every inmate-initiated visit by the inmate to a dentist or optometrist. The amount of the copayment for the dental or optometric services need not be the same as the copayment for medical or mental health services.
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$0 - $5
Per visit |
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Arkansas | Ark. Code Ann. § 5-64-806 | Seizure and forfeiture | Any property, including money, used in violation of a provision of this subchapter may be seized and forfeited to the state. |
Asset forfeiture
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Arkansas | Ark. Code Ann. § 5-73-130 | Seizure and forfeiture of firearm -- Seizure and forfeiture of motor vehicle -- Disposition of property seized |
(a) If a person under eighteen (18) years of age is unlawfully in possession of a firearm, the firearm shall be seized and, after an adjudication of delinquency or a + See moreconviction, is subject to forfeiture.(b) If a felon or a person under eighteen (18) years of age is unlawfully in possession of a firearm in a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle is subject to seizure and, after an adjudication of delinquency or a conviction, subject to forfeiture.
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Asset forfeiture
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Arkansas | Ark. Code Ann. § 5-74-107 | Unlawful discharge of a firearm from a vehicle |
(c) (1) (A) Any vehicle or property used by the owner, or anyone acting with the knowledge and consent of the owner, to facilitate a violation of this + See moresection is subject to forfeiture. (B) This is a new and independent ground for forfeiture.
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Asset forfeiture
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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
per each civil penalty |
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. §856.011(3) | Disorderly intoxication |
(1) No person in the state shall be intoxicated and endanger the safety of another person or property, and no person in the state shall be intoxicated or drink any + See morealcoholic beverage in a public place or in or upon any public conveyance and cause a public disturbance.(2) Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
(3) Any person who shall have been convicted or have forfeited collateral under the provisions of subsection (1) three times in the preceding 12 months shall be deemed a habitual offender and may be committed by the court to an appropriate treatment resource for a period of not more than 60 days. Any peace officer, in lieu of incarcerating an intoxicated person for violation of subsection (1), may take or send the intoxicated person to her or his home or to a public or private health facility, and the law enforcement officer may take reasonable measures to ascertain the commercial transportation used for such purposes is paid for by such person in advance. Any law enforcement officers so acting shall be considered as carrying out their official duty.
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cost of transportation
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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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