50-State Criminal Justice Debt Reform Builder Bringing transparency to areas of significant legal complexity.
Revenue Flow
Keyword search across all of the laws in the states. Subject-area tabs above allow you to narrow results. Click the advanced search for further refinement.
Every law can be saved to the Reform Builder
See conflicts of interest policy recommendations in CJPP’s Policy Guide
State
- Alabama (1)
- Alaska (1)
- Arizona (0)
- Arkansas (3)
- California (0)
- Colorado (5)
- Connecticut (0)
- Delaware (2)
- Florida (0)
- Georgia (31)
- Hawaii (0)
- Idaho (11)
- Illinois (1)
- Indiana (4)
- Iowa (0)
- (-) Kansas (1)
- (-) Kentucky (7)
- Louisiana (0)
- Maine (7)
- Maryland (0)
- (-) Massachusetts (8)
- Michigan (0)
- Minnesota (10)
- Mississippi (4)
- Missouri (5)
- Montana (1)
- Nebraska (6)
- Nevada (3)
- New Hampshire (5)
- New Jersey (1)
- (-) New Mexico (11)
- New York (7)
- North Carolina (6)
- North Dakota (2)
- Ohio (9)
- Oklahoma (0)
- Oregon (6)
- Pennsylvania (3)
- Rhode Island (5)
- South Carolina (0)
- South Dakota (3)
- Tennessee (0)
- Texas (14)
- Utah (3)
- Vermont (2)
- Virginia (0)
- Washington (2)
- Washington DC (0)
- West Virginia (2)
- Wisconsin (0)
- (-) Wyoming (5)
Keyword search
Reset
Reset all filtersWho receives the funding
- All courts (1)
- Clerk (0)
- County (2)
- Court (1)
- Courts (4)
- Department of Motor Vehicles (0)
- District attorney (1)
- Earmarked Fund/Agency (0)
- General Fund (2)
- Law enforcement (1)
- Local jurisdiction (0)
- Municipal court (0)
- Municipality/municipal agency (2)
- Other (0)
- Private actors (1)
- Prosecutor (0)
- State/statewide agency (13)
- State courts (1)
- Supervision agency (1)
- Traffic court (0)
- Victims Fund (1)
Narrrow results
Level of Offense
Below are all of the laws that govern revenue flow that match your search criteria. Many include a See related provisions prompt which searches our database for laws that may pertain to your result.
32 Results
| State | Statute | Description/Statute Name | Statutory language | Who receives the funding | Other beneficiaries | Level of offense | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Add to Dashboard
|
Kansas | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 19-2766b | Same; actions for enforcement of resolutions; costs; fees and mileage for witnesses; fines and penalties, disposition of |
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), in all actions for the enforcement of resolutions of improvement districts the items allowable as costs shall be the same as in cases + See morefor misdemeanor violations of state law and shall be taxed as provided in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 22-3801, 22-3802 and 22-3803, and amendments thereto.
(b) The fees and mileage for the attendance of witnesses shall be borne by the party calling the witness, except that if an accused person is found not guilty, the improvement district shall pay all such expenses, but the court may direct that fees and mileage of witnesses subpoenaed by the accused person be charged against such person, if the court finds that there has been an abuse of the use of subpoenas by the accused person.
(c) Except as hereinafter provided, all fines and penalties collected in actions for the enforcement of resolutions adopted by improvement districts, as provided in this act and the act of which this act is amendatory, shall be paid over to the county treasurer of the county where they are imposed for deposit in the county general fund. The court, when imposing fines and penalties for resolution violations, shall identify violations which also constitute a violation of state law. Those fines and penalties derived from the enforcement of any resolution, a violation of which would also constitute a violation of state law, shall be remitted to the state treasurer as provided in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 20-2801, and amendments thereto.
|
County | N/A | All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
Kentucky | Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 532.352 | Reimbursement for costs of incarceration |
(3) Reimbursement of incarceration costs shall be paid by the defendant directly to the jailer in the amount specified by written order of the court. Incarceration costs owed to the Department of Corrections shall be paid through the circuit clerk.
|
State/statewide agency |
Private actor |
All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
Kentucky | Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 24A.1765 | Additional fees for criminal cases; allocation to general fund and telephonic behavioral health jail triage system |
In addition to the twenty dollar ($20) fee created by KRS 24A.176, in criminal cases a ten dollar ($10) fee shall be added to the costs imposed by KRS 24A.175 that the defendant is required to pay. The first five dollars ($5) of each fee collected under this section shall be placed into the general fund, and the remainder of the fee shall be allocated to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for the implementation and operation of a telephonic behavioral health jail triage system as provided in KRS 210.365 and 441.048.
|
State/statewide agency | N/A | All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
Kentucky | Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 24A.180(1) | Disposition of District Court fees and costs |
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section all fees and costs collected pursuant to KRS 24A.170(1) shall be deposited in the general fund of the State Treasury. |
State/statewide agency | N/A | All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
Kentucky | Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 23A.180(2)-(5) | Additional costs imposed in criminal cases; funds distributed to local governments and counties; funds used for police, jails, and transport of prisoners |
(2) In criminal cases a fee of twenty dollars ($20) shall be added to the costs imposed by KRS 23A.205 that the defendant is required to pay. clerk shall pay the funds from fees collected under this section to the Finance and Administration Cabinet pursuant to KRS 23A.215 for distribution as provided in subsection (5) of this section to local governments with police departments or local governments that contract for police services, and to counties with fiscal responsibilities for jails or the transporting of prisoners.
(4) All funds distributed to local governments shall be used for payment of expenses for operation of the local government's police department or contracted police services. All funds distributed to counties with fiscal responsibilities for jails or the transporting of prisoners shall be used for the payment of costs associated with the housing or transporting of prisoners. (5) Payments shall be distributed quarterly by the Finance and Administration Cabinet beginning October 1, 2004, as follows: (a) Thirty percent (30%) of the total shall be distributed equally to all local governments with police departments or that contract for police services; (b) Fifty percent (50%) of the total shall be distributed to local governments with police departments or local governments that contract for police services on a per capita basis according to the number of certified police officers employed by the police department on July 1 each year or providing services to the local government pursuant to a contract on July 1 of each year. For purposes of this subsection, each local government that contracts for police services shall be considered to employ one (1) police officer for each sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) it expends during each fiscal year for police services under a written contract; and (c) Twenty percent (20%) of the total shall be distributed equally to counties with fiscal responsibilities for jails or the transporting of prisoners. |
Municipality/municipal agency |
Law enforcement; private actors. |
All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
Kentucky | Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 23A.2065 | Additional fees for criminal cases; allocation to general fund and telephonic behavioral health jail triage system |
In addition to the twenty dollar ($20) fee created by KRS 23A.206, in criminal cases a ten dollar ($10) fee shall be added to the costs imposed by KRS 23A.205 that the defendant is required to pay. The first five dollars ($5) of each fee collected under this section shall be placed into the general fund, and the remainder of the fee shall be allocated to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for the implementation and operation of a telephonic behavioral health jail triage system as provided in KRS 210.365 and 441.048.
|
State/statewide agency | N/A | All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
Kentucky | Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 23A.215(1)-(2) | Additional fees for criminal cases; allocation to general fund and telephonic behavioral health jail triage system |
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, all fees and costs collected pursuant to KRS 23A.200(1) shall be deposited in the general fund of the State Treasury. |
State/statewide agency |
Court |
All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
Kentucky | Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 23A.209 | Additional fee for expenses of Kentucky Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force |
In addition to the twenty dollar ($20) fee created by KRS 23A.206 and the ten dollar ($10) fee created by KRS 23A.2065, a ten dollar ($10) fee shall be added in criminal cases to the costs imposed by KRS 23A.205. The fee collected under this section shall be allocated to the Department of Kentucky State Police for the training, salaries, and equipment of the Kentucky Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
|
Law enforcement | N/A | All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 265, § 42 | Use of Radio or Boom Box Without Using Earphones on Public Conveyance; Punishment; Sale of Evidence at Public Auction. |
Evidence seized pursuant to this section shall be sold at public auction and the proceeds therefrom may be applied against outstanding fines and court costs. |
All courts |
N/A |
All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 90, § 20 | Motor Vehicles and Aircraft: Penalties and Punishments. |
In addition to any reinstatement fee, there shall be a surcharge of $50 assessed against a person who seeks to have the person’s license reinstated following a revocation or suspension under this paragraph. The surcharge shall be transferred by the registrar of motor vehicles to the state treasurer for deposit into the Thomas P. Kennedy Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund established pursuant to section 59A of chapter 10.
|
State/statewide agency | N/A | All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 107 | Transmission of certain fines to state treasurer for deposit into Victims of Human Trafficking Trust Fund |
The court shall transmit fines collected pursuant to section 8 and subsection (b) and subsection (c) of section 53A to the state treasurer. The treasurer shall deposit such fines into the Victims of Human Trafficking Trust Fund established pursuant to section 66A of chapter 10.
|
Victims Fund | N/A | All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 280, § 6B | Criminal assessments |
The court shall impose an assessment of not less than thirty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars against any person who has attained the age of 18 years and who is convicted of a misdemeanor or against whom a finding of sufficient facts for a conviction is made on a complaint charging a misdemeanor under sections thirty-two C, thirty-two D, and thirty-two G and thirty-five of chapter ninety-four C. The court shall impose an assessment of not less than one hundred and fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars against any person who is convicted of a felony or against whom a finding of sufficient facts for a conviction is made on a complaint charging a felony under sections thirty-two, thirty-two A, thirty-two B, thirty-two E, thirty-two F and thirty-four of chapter ninety-four C. When multiple criminal offenses arising from a single incident are charged, the total assessment shall not exceed five hundred dollars. The court or justice may waive all or any part of said assessment upon a finding that such payment would cause a substantial financial hardship to the person, the person’s immediate family or the person’s dependents.
All such assessments made shall be collected by the court and shall be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer. |
State courts | N/A | All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 276, § 87A | Conditions of probation; probation fees |
Said probation fee shall be collected by the several probation offices of the trial court and transmitted to the state treasurer for deposit into the General Fund. |
General Fund | N/A | All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 273, § 3 | Desertion, Non-Support and Illegitimacy: Payment of fines |
The court imposing a fine under section fifteen A may at any time order it paid in whole or in part to a probation officer, to be paid by him to the spouse or to the city, town, corporation, society or person actually supporting the spouse, child or children, or to the state treasurer for the use of the department of children and families if the child has been committed to said department.
|
Private actors |
State treasurer: city, town, corporation, society or person supporting the spouse. |
All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 276, § 93 | Payment to treasurer of unclaimed money collected by probation officer |
Except as provided by section one of chapter two hundred and seventy-nine, money collected by a probation officer under order of the court by which he is appointed, if unclaimed after one year from the time of its collection, shall, upon further order of the court, be paid to the treasurer provided, that any part of the said money may be paid to persons establishing before the comptroller a lawful claim thereto within five years of its payment to said treasurer, unless sooner paid over by order of the said commissioners.
|
State/statewide agency | N/A | All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 280, § 2 | Payment of certain fines and forfeitures; apportionment among beneficiaries |
Twenty per cent of the fines imposed under the provisions of chapter three hundred and fifty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two shall be paid over to the state treasurer . . .
Fines imposed under the provisions of chapters eighty-nine and ninety, including fines, penalties and assessments imposed under the provisions of chapter ninety C for the violation of the provisions of chapters eighty-nine and ninety, fines assessed by a hearing officer of a city or town as defined in sections twenty A and twenty A ½ of chapter ninety and forfeitures imposed under the provisions of section one hundred and forty-one of chapter one hundred and forty, shall be paid over to the treasury of the city or town wherein the offense was committed; provided, however, that only fifty per cent of the amount of fines, penalties and assessments collected for violations of section seventeen of chapter ninety or of a special speed regulation lawfully made under the authority of section eighteen of said chapter ninety shall be paid over to the treasury of the city or town wherein the offense was committed and the remaining fifty per cent shall be paid over to the state treasurer and credited to the Highway Fund. |
State/statewide agency |
Local jurisdiction; municipality/municipal agency; Highway Fund |
All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
New Mexico | N.M. Stat. Ann. § 66-7-416(F)-(G) | Liability for damage; unlawful use of highways; penalties |
F. Any person violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than five days nor more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment, and the operator and the owner of such vehicle, truck, tractor or engine from whom the driver or operator has permitted possession at the time thereof shall be jointly and severally liable to the state, county or municipality as the case may be for the actual damage caused by the operation, conducting or hauling thereof over any public highway, street, bridge, culvert or structure in violation of any provision of this act to be collected by suit brought in the name of the state, county or municipality having control of such highway or street; and such vehicle, truck, tractor or engine may be attached and held to satisfy and [any] judgment for such damages.
G. The proceeds of any such judgment shall be paid to the treasurer of the state, or of such county or municipality and placed to the credit of a fund for the construction and improvement of roads or streets. |
State/statewide agency |
County; municipality/municipal agency |
All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
New Mexico | N.M. Stat. Ann. § 31-16-7 | Recovery from defendant |
A. The district attorney may, on behalf of the state, recover payment or reimbursement, as the case may be, from each person who has received legal assistance or another benefit under the Indigent Defense Act: (1) to which he was not entitled; (2) with respect to which he was not a needy person when he received it; or (3) with respect to which he has failed to make the certificate required by Section 62 B of the Indigent Defense Act and for which he refuses to pay. Suit must be brought within six years after the date on which the aid was received.
B. The district attorney may, on behalf of the state, recover payment or reimbursement, as the case may be, from each person other than a person covered by Subsection A who has received legal assistance under the Indigent Defense Act and who, on the date on which suit is brought, is financially able to pay or reimburse the state for it according to the standards of ability to pay applicable under the Indigent Defense Act but refuses to do so. Suit must be brought within three years after the date on which the benefit was received. C. Amounts recovered under this section shall be paid to the state treasurer for credit to the state general fund. |
General Fund | N/A | All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
New Mexico | N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-36-10 | District attorney; processing fee |
A. A district attorney is authorized to assess a processing fee against any person who is convicted of violating Section 30-36-4 NMSA 1978 and against any person who acknowledges violation of that section but for whom prosecution is waived by the district attorney. The processing fee assessed pursuant to this section shall not exceed:
B. All processing fees collected by a district attorney pursuant to this section shall be transmitted to the administrative office of the district attorneys for credit to the district attorney fund. |
District attorney | N/A | All |
|
Add to Dashboard
|
New Mexico | N.M. Stat. Ann. § 31-12-8 | Controlled substances; fee upon conviction; municipal ordinance requirement |
A. A person convicted of a violation of the provisions of the Controlled Substances Act1 or a person convicted of distribution or possession of a controlled substance pursuant to municipal ordinance shall be assessed, in addition to any other fee or fine, a fee of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) to defray the costs of chemical and other analyses of controlled substances.
B. Every municipality which has enacted an ordinance making possession or distribution of a controlled substance unlawful shall enact an ordinance to require assessment of the fee pursuant to Subsection A of this section and to provide for transmittal of the money collected to the administrative office of the courts pursuant to Section 31-12-9 NMSA 1978, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 35-14-7 NMSA 1978. |
Courts | N/A | All |
The Criminal Justice Debt Reform Builder is a project of the National Criminal Justice Debt Initiative of the Criminal Justice Policy Program at Harvard Law School in collaboration with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and with user experience design by metaLAB (at) Harvard.
For more information, please visit cjpp.law.harvard.edu.