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Maryland Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 7-507(b) Disposition of Fines
Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, the fines imposed by and recognizances forfeited to each circuit court shall be distributed as follows: (1) 50% to the clerk
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of the circuit court, to be used under the direction of the judges of the circuit court to augment the court library; and (2) 5% to the clerk of the circuit court as a commission.
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Maryland Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 7-102(b)(2) Surcharge
The State Court Administrator, as part of the Administrator's determination of the amount of fees to be charged by the Clerk of the Court of Appeals and the Clerk of
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the Court of Special Appeals, shall assess a surcharge that shall be: (1) $11 per case; and (2) Deposited into the Circuit Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund established under § 13-602 of this article.
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Maryland Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 7-402(f)(2) Surcharge - Baltimore Sheriffs
The revenue generated from the surcharge on filing fees for the sheriff services under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall fund the enhancement of sheriff benefits and the increase in
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sheriff personnel to enhance the service of domestic violence orders.
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Maryland Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 7-409(e) Circuit Court - Additional Cost
(1) All money collected under this section shall be paid to the Comptroller of the State. (2) The Comptroller shall deposit $22.50 from each fee collected under subsection (b) of
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this section from a circuit court and $12.50 from each fee collected under subsection (c) of this section from the District Court into the State Victims of Crime Fund established under § 11-916 of the Criminal Procedure Article. (3) The Comptroller shall deposit $2.50 from each fee collected under subsections (b) and (c) of this section into the Victim and Witness Protection and Relocation Fund established under § 11-905 of the Criminal Procedure Article. (4) The Comptroller shall deposit all other moneys collected under subsections (b) and (c) of this section into the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund established under § 11-819 of the Criminal Procedure Article.
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Maryland Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 7-409(e) District Court - Additional Cost
(1) All money collected under this section shall be paid to the Comptroller of the State. (2) The Comptroller shall deposit $22.50 from each fee collected under subsection (b) of
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this section from a circuit court and $12.50 from each fee collected under subsection (c) of this section from the District Court into the State Victims of Crime Fund established under § 11-916 of the Criminal Procedure Article. (3) The Comptroller shall deposit $2.50 from each fee collected under subsections (b) and (c) of this section into the Victim and Witness Protection and Relocation Fund established under § 11-905 of the Criminal Procedure Article. (4) The Comptroller shall deposit all other moneys collected under subsections (b) and (c) of this section into the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund established under § 11-819 of the Criminal Procedure Article.
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Maryland Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 7-409(e) Additional Cost - Conviction
(1) All money collected under this section shall be paid to the Comptroller of the State. (2) The Comptroller shall deposit $22.50 from each fee collected under subsection (b) of
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this section from a circuit court and $12.50 from each fee collected under subsection (c) of this section from the District Court into the State Victims of Crime Fund established under § 11-916 of the Criminal Procedure Article. (3) The Comptroller shall deposit $2.50 from each fee collected under subsections (b) and (c) of this section into the Victim and Witness Protection and Relocation Fund established under § 11-905 of the Criminal Procedure Article. (4) The Comptroller shall deposit all other moneys collected under subsections (b) and (c) of this section into the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund established under § 11-819 of the Criminal Procedure Article.
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Maryland Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 7-301(e); Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 7-301(f) Disposition of Court Costs
The Comptroller shall annually pay from the court costs collected by the District Court under subsections (a) and (b)(1) of this section: (1) $500,000 into the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund
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established under § 11-819 of the Criminal Procedure Article; and (2) $125,000 into the Victim and Witness Protection and Relocation Fund established under § 11-905 of the Criminal Procedure Article. The Comptroller annually shall credit the surcharges collected under this subsection as provided in this paragraph. (ii) An amount annually as set forth in the State budget shall be distributed for the Charles W. Riley Firefighter and Ambulance and Rescue Squad Member Scholarship as established in § 18-603.1 of the Education Article. (iii) An amount annually as set forth in the State budget shall be distributed to the Maryland State Firemen's Association for the Widows' and Orphans' Fund. (iv) After the distribution under subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph, $200,000 shall be distributed to the Maryland State Firemen's Association. (v) After the distribution under subparagraphs (ii), (iii), and (iv) of this paragraph and until a total of $20,000,000 has been distributed to the Volunteer Company Assistance Fund since the establishment of the surcharge under this subsection, the remainder shall be credited to the Volunteer Company Assistance Fund to be used in accordance with the provisions of Title 8, Subtitle 2 of the Public Safety Article. (vi) After a total of $20,000,000 has been distributed to the Volunteer Company Assistance Fund, 100% of the remainder shall be credited to the Maryland Emergency Medical System Operations Fund established under § 13-955 of the Transportation Article. (vii) On or before September 1 of each year until $20,000,000 has been distributed to the Volunteer Company Assistance Fund, the State Court Administrator shall submit a report to the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee and the House Appropriations Committee, in accordance with § 2-1246 of the State Government Article, on the amount of revenue distributed to the Volunteer Company Assistance Fund under this paragraph.
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Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; Victim and Witness Protection and Relocation Fund; Firefighter and Ambulance and Rescue Squad Member Scholarship; Maryland State Firemen's Association for the Widows' and Orphans' Fund; Maryland
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State Firemen's Association; Volunteer Company Assistance Fund; Maryland Emergency Medical System Operations Fund
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Washington Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 43.08.250 Money received by treasurer from certain court actions — Use

(1) The money received by the state treasurer from fees, fines, forfeitures, penalties, reimbursements or assessments by any court organized under Title 3 or 35 RCW, or chapter 2.08 RCW, shall

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be deposited in the state general fund.

(2) The money received by the state treasurer from the increase in fees imposed by sections 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, and 19, chapter 457, Laws of 2005 shall be deposited in the state general fund. It is the intent of the legislature that fifty percent of such money be appropriated to the administrator for the courts for the purposes of contributing to district court judges’ salaries and to eligible elected municipal court judges’ salaries. It is further the intent of the legislature that the balance of such moneys be used to fund criminal indigent defense assistance and enhancement at the trial court level, representation of parents in dependency and termination proceedings, and civil legal representation of indigent persons.

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Washington Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 10.82.070 Disposition of monetary payments

(1) All sums of money derived from costs, fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed or collected, in whole or in part, by a superior court for violation of orders of injunction,

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mandamus and other like writs, for contempt of court, or for breach of the penal laws shall be paid in cash by the person collecting the same, within twenty days after the collection, to the county treasurer of the county in which the same have accrued.

(2) Except as provided in RCW 9A.88.120 and 10.99.080, the county treasurer shall remit monthly thirty-two percent of the money received under this section except for certain costs to the state treasurer for deposit in the state general fund and shall deposit the remainder as provided by law. "Certain costs" as used in this subsection, means those costs awarded to prevailing parties in civil actions under RCW 4.84.010 or 36.18.040, or those costs awarded against convicted defendants in criminal actions under RCW 10.01.160, 10.46.190, or 36.18.040, or other similar statutes if such costs are specifically designated as costs by the court and are awarded for the specific reimbursement of costs incurred by the state or county in the prosecution of the case, including the fees of defense counsel. Costs or assessments awarded to dedicated accounts, state or local, are not subject to this state allocation or to RCW 7.68.035.

(3) All fees, fines, forfeitures and penalties collected or assessed by a district court because of the violation of a state law shall be remitted as provided in chapter 3.62 RCW as now exists or is later amended. All fees, fines, forfeitures, and penalties collected or assessed by a superior court in cases on appeal from a lower court shall be remitted to the municipal or district court from which the cases were appealed.

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State courts; county; municipality/municipal agency.

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Washington Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 10.99.080(2) Penalty assessment

(2) Revenue from the: (a) One hundred dollar assessment shall be used solely for the purposes of establishing and funding domestic violence advocacy and domestic violence prevention and prosecution programs in the city

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or county of the court imposing the assessment. Such revenue from the assessment shall not be used for indigent criminal defense. If the city or county does not have domestic violence advocacy or domestic violence prevention and prosecution programs, cities and counties may use the revenue collected from the assessment to contract with recognized community-based domestic violence program providers. (b) Fifteen dollar assessment must be remitted monthly to the state treasury for deposit in the domestic violence prevention account.

Municipality/municipal agency

County; state/state agency (domestic violence prevention and prosecution programs)

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Washington Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 7.68.035(4) Penalty assessments in addition to fine or bail forfeiture — Distribution — Establishment of crime victim and witness programs in county — Contribution required from cities and towns

(4) Such penalty assessments shall be paid by the clerk of the superior court to the county treasurer. Each county shall deposit one hundred percent of the money it receives per

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case or cause of action under subsection (1) of this section, not less than one and seventy-five one-hundredths percent of the remaining money it retains under RCW 10.82.070 and the money it retains under chapter 3.62 RCW, and all money it receives under subsection (7) of this section into a fund maintained exclusively for the support of comprehensive programs to encourage and facilitate testimony by the victims of crimes and witnesses to crimes.

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Washington Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 9.94A.780(5) Offender supervision intake fees

(5) All amounts required to be paid under this section shall be collected by the department of corrections and deposited by the department in the dedicated fund established pursuant to

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RCW 72.11.040 [which states,] The cost of supervision fund is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts from assessments made under RCW 9.94A.780, 9.94A.74504, and 72.04A.120 shall be deposited into the fund. Expenditures from the fund may be used only to support the collection of legal financial obligations. Only the secretary of the department of corrections or the secretary's designee may authorize expenditures from the fund. The fund is subject to allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW, but no appropriation is required for expenditures.

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Collection of legal financial obligations

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Washington Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 9.94A.760(2)-(3),(5) Legal Financial Obligations

(2) Upon receipt of each payment made by or on behalf of an offender, the county clerk shall distribute the payment in the following order of priority until satisfied: (a) First, proportionally

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to restitution to victims that have not been fully compensated from other sources; (b) Second, proportionally to restitution to insurance or other sources with respect to a loss that has provided compensation to victims; (c) Third, proportionally to crime victims’ assessments; and (d) Fourth, proportionally to costs, fines, and other assessments required by law

(3) . . . All funds recovered from offenders for the cost of incarceration in the county jail shall be remitted to the county and the costs of incarceration in a prison shall be remitted to the department.

(5) . . . Restitution collected through civil enforcement must be paid through the registry of the court and must be distributed proportionately according to each victim’s loss when there is more than one victim. 

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Victims - restitution

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Washington Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 43.43.7541 DNA identification system--Collection of biological samples--Fee

Every sentence imposed for a crime specified in RCW 43.43.754 must include a fee of one hundred dollars unless the state has previously collected the offender’s DNA as a result of a

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prior conviction. The fee is a court-ordered legal financial obligation as defined in RCW 9.94A.030 and other applicable law. For a sentence imposed under chapter 9.94A RCW, the fee is payable by the offender after payment of all other legal financial obligations included in the sentence has been completed. For all other sentences, the fee is payable by the offender in the same manner as other assessments imposed. The clerk of the court shall transmit eighty percent of the fee collected to the state treasurer for deposit in the state DNA database account created under RCW 43.43.7532, and shall transmit twenty percent of the fee collected to the agency responsible for collection of a biological sample from the offender as required under RCW 43.43.754. 

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(DNA database account); private actor.

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Washington Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 3.62.020 Remittance to County Treasurer

(1) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, all costs, fees, fines, forfeitures and penalties assessed and collected in whole or in part by district courts, except costs,

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fines, forfeitures and penalties assessed and collected, in whole or in part, because of the violation of city ordinances, shall be remitted by the clerk of the district court to the county treasurer at least monthly, together with a financial statement as required by the state auditor, noting the information necessary for crediting of such funds as required by law.


(2) Except as provided in RCW 9A.88.120, 10.99.080, 7.84.100(4), and this section, the county treasurer shall remit thirty-two percent of the noninterest money received under subsection (1) of this section except certain costs to the state treasurer. “Certain costs” as used in this subsection, means those costs awarded to prevailing parties in civil actions under RCW 4.84.010 or 36.18.040, or those costs awarded against convicted defendants in criminal actions under RCW 10.01.160, 10.46.190, or 36.18.040, or other similar statutes if such costs are specifically designated as costs by the court and are awarded for the specific reimbursement of costs incurred by the state or county in the prosecution of the case, including the fees of defense counsel. With the exception of funds to be transferred to the judicial stabilization trust account under RCW 3.62.060(2), money remitted under this subsection to the state treasurer shall be deposited in the state general fund.


(3) The balance of the noninterest money received by the county treasurer under subsection (1) of this section shall be deposited in the county current expense fund. Funds deposited under this subsection that are attributable to the county’s portion of a surcharge imposed under RCW 3.62.060(2) must be used to support local trial court and court-related functions.


(4) Except as provided in RCW 7.84.100(4), all money collected for county parking infractions shall be remitted by the clerk of the district court at least monthly, with the information required under subsection (1) of this section, to the county treasurer for deposit in the county current expense fund.


(5) (a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, penalties, fines, fees, and costs may accrue interest at the rate of twelve percent per annum, upon assignment to a collection agency. Interest may accrue only while the case is in collection status. (b) As of June 7, 2018, penalties, fines, bail forfeitures, fees, and costs imposed against a defendant in a criminal proceeding shall not accrue interest.


(6) Interest retained by the court on penalties, fines, bail forfeitures, fees, and costs shall be split twenty-five percent to the state treasurer for deposit in the state general fund, twenty-five percent to the state treasurer for deposit in the judicial information system account as provided in RCW 2.68.020, twenty-five percent to the county current expense fund, and twenty-five percent to the county current expense fund to fund local courts.

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Washington Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 10.82.090(1) Interest on judgments — Disposition of nonrestitution interest

. . . All nonrestitution interest retained by the court shall be split twenty-five percent to the state treasurer for deposit in the state general fund, twenty-five percent to the

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state treasurer for deposit in the judicial information system account as provided in RCW 2.68.020, twenty-five percent to the county current expense fund, and twenty-five percent to the county current expense fund to fund local courts.

State courts

County; local courts.

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Washington Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 2.56.190 Legal financial obligations--Collection--Distribution of funds

By October 1, 2003, and annually thereafter, the administrative office of the courts shall distribute such funds to counties for county clerk collection budgets as are appropriated by the legislature

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for this purpose, using the funding formula recommended by the Washington association of county officials. The administrative office of the courts shall not deduct any amount for indirect or direct costs, and shall distribute the entire amount appropriated by the legislature to the counties for county clerk collection budgets. The administrative office of the courts shall report on the amounts distributed to counties to the appropriate committees of the legislature no later than December 1, 2003, and annually thereafter.
The administrative office of the courts may expend for the purposes of billing for legal financial obligations, such funds as are appropriated for the legislature for this purpose.

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Washington Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 9A.56.085 Minimum fine for theft of livestock

(6) The two thousand dollars additional penalty shall be remitted by the county treasurer to the state treasurer as provided under RCW 10.82.070.

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Washington Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 3.62.040(1)-(3),(6) Costs, fines, forfeitures, and penalties from city cases — Disposition — Interest

(1) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, all costs, fines, forfeitures and penalties assessed and collected, in whole or in part, by district courts because of violations of

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city ordinances shall be remitted by the clerk of the district court at least monthly directly to the treasurer of the city wherein the violation occurred.

(2) Except as provided in RCW 9A.88.120 and 10.99.080, the city treasurer shall remit monthly thirty-two percent of the noninterest money received under this section, other than for parking infractions and certain costs, to the state treasurer. . . Money remitted under this subsection to the state treasurer shall be deposited in the state general fund.

(3) The balance of the noninterest money received under this section shall be retained by the city and deposited as provided by law.

(6) Interest retained by the court on penalties, fines, bail forfeitures, fees, and costs shall be split twenty-five percent to the state treasurer for deposit in the state general fund, twenty-five percent to the state treasurer for deposit in the judicial information system account as provided in RCW 2.68.020, twenty-five percent to the city general fund, and twenty-five percent to the city general fund to fund local courts

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Municipality; local jurisdiction; state/state agency (judicial information system account).

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Wyoming Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 6-8-104(u),(w) Wearing or carrying concealed weapons; penalties; exceptions; permits

(u) All monies collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the general fund.

(w) All funds received by the sheriff pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be deposited into

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the general fund of the county.

General Fund

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Felony