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Tennessee | Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-21-401(g)(1) | Fees for particular services |
(g) Criminal actions in general sessions court. (1) General session criminal base fee, sixty-two dollars ($62.00). This fee shall be charged per conviction per defendant. For cases involving traffic citations, + See moreinstead of sixty-two dollars ($62.00), the base court cost shall be forty-two dollars ($42.00).
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Tennessee | Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-21-401(g)(2) | Fees for particular services |
(g) Criminal actions in general sessions court. (2) Failure to appear, forty dollars ($40.00). In cases where the defendant fails to appear or pay fines or costs and the court + See moreissues an attachment, bench warrant, capias or other process to compel the defendant's attendance at the court, the defendant shall be charged an additional fee for clerk's costs of forty dollars ($40.00).
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$40
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Tennessee | Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-21-401(g)(3) | Fees for particular services |
(g) Criminal actions in general sessions court. (3) Calling in surety, forty dollars ($40.00). The clerk shall charge the defendant this fee each time a scire facias or other proceeding + See moreis instituted to bring in a surety, or make action against a bond in criminal cases for failure to appear.
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$40
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Tennessee | Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-21-401(g)(4) | Fees for particular services |
(g) Criminal actions in general sessions court. (4) The clerk shall charge a fee of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) for requests for bonding company release from final forfeiture, or requests to + See morereinstate a driver license.
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$75
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Tennessee | Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-21-401(g)(5) | Fees for particular services | (g) Criminal actions in general sessions court. (5) The clerk shall charge a fee of one hundred dollars ($100) for expungements. |
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Tennessee | Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-21-401(j) | Fees for particular services |
(j) Earmarked funds for computerization.(1) Out of all the general filing fees charged by court clerks, two dollars ($2.00) of the amount collected shall be earmarked for computer hardware purchases + See moreor replacement, but may be used for other usual and necessary computer related expenses at the discretion of the clerk. Such amount shall be preserved for these purposes and shall not revert to the general fund at the end of a budget year if unexpended.(2) Effective July 1, 2012, all the general filing fees charged by court clerks shall be increased by two dollars ($2.00). The amount collected pursuant to this two-dollar increase shall be earmarked, along with the two dollars ($2.00) in subdivision (j)(1), for the purposes set forth in subdivision (j)(1), and shall be preserved for those purposes and shall not revert to the general fund at the end of a budget year if unexpended. Pursuant to subsection (l), the fees increased by this subdivision (j)(2) shall not be assessed against the state or otherwise represent a cost to the state in criminal cases, child support actions, mental health proceedings, actions under the Tennessee Adult Protection Act, compiled in title 71, chapter 6, part 1, actions with regard to child care licensing, and collection efforts brought by the department of human services.
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$2
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Tennessee | Tenn. Code Ann. § 41-2-128(5) | Prisoners who may apply for release -- Procedure. |
(5) (A) The judge shall, at the time of sentencing, cause the sentencing order to reflect the defendant's cost of incarceration and treatment and shall affix to the order, + See moretaking into consideration the defendant's ability to pay, the time and manner in which the costs are to be paid. The court shall enter the necessary orders requiring that the costs of incarceration and treatment be paid or secured, including, but not limited to, orders of probation that include, as a condition thereof, the payment of costs covered by this subdivision (c)(5).
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