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Massachusetts Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 258B, § 8 Assessments Against Persons Convicted — Imposed.

The court shall impose an additional domestic violence prevention and victim assistance assessment of $50 for: (i) any violation of an order issued pursuant to sections 18 or 34B of

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chapter 208, section 32 of chapter 209, sections 3, 4 or 5 of chapter 209A or section 15 or 20 of chapter 209C; (ii) a conviction or adjudication for an act which would constitute abuse, as defined in section 1 of chapter 209A; or (iii) a violation of section 13M or 15D of chapter 265, which shall be deposited in the Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance Fund, established in section 20 of chapter 17.

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Massachusetts Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 258B, § 8 Assessments Against Persons Convicted — Imposed.

All such assessments made shall be collected by the court or by the registrar, as the case may be, and shall be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer. If the

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person convicted is sentenced to a correctional facility in the commonwealth, the superintendent or sheriff of the facility shall deduct any part or all of the monies earned or received by any inmate and held by the correctional facility, to satisfy the victim and witness assessment, and shall transmit such monies to the court monthly. The assessment from any conviction or adjudication of delinquency which is subsequently overturned on appeal shall be refunded by the court to the person whose conviction or adjudication of delinquency is overturned. Said court shall deduct such funds from the assessments transmitted to the state treasurer. 

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Massachusetts Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 90, § 20 Motor Vehicles and Aircraft: Penalties and Punishments.

There shall be a surcharge of $50 on a fine assessed against a person convicted or found responsible of a violation of section 17 or a violation of a special

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regulation lawfully made under the authority of section 18. The first $50.00 of each surcharge shall be transferred by the registrar of motor vehicles to the state treasurer for deposit into the Head Injury Treatment Services Trust Fund. The remaining amount shall be transferred by the registrar to the state treasurer for deposit in the General Fund.

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Massachusetts Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 90, § 20 Motor Vehicles and Aircraft: Penalties and Punishments.

There shall be a surcharge of $5 on a fine assessed against a person convicted of or found responsible for a motor vehicle violation pursuant to this chapter or a

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violation of a special regulation lawfully made under the authority of this chapter. The surcharge shall be transferred by the registrar of motor vehicles to the state treasurer for deposit into the Public Safety Training Fund established in section 2JJJJ of chapter 29.

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Massachusetts Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 265, § 55 Human Trafficking — Monies to be Directed to Victim Restitution.

All monies furnished or intended to be furnished by any person in exchange for forced labor or services or sexual servitude, and all monies used or intended to be used

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to facilitate any violation of section 50 or 51 shall be subject to forfeiture to the commonwealth and shall be made available by the court to any victim ordered restitution by the court pursuant to section 3 of chapter 258B.

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Massachusetts Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 265, § 39(b) Crimes Motivated by Race, Color, Religion or National Origin.

There shall be a surcharge of one hundred dollars on a fine assessed against a defendant convicted of a violation of this section; provided, however, that moneys from such surcharge

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shall be delivered forthwith to the treasurer of the commonwealth and deposited in the Diversity Awareness Education Trust Fund established under the provisions of section thirty-nine Q of chapter ten. In the case of convictions for multiple offenses, said surcharge shall be assessed for each such conviction.

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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

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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.

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Massachusetts Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209A, § 7 Search of Domestic Violence Records; Outstanding Warrants; Service of Order, Complaint and Summons; Enforcement; Violations.

Any violation of such order or a protection order issued by another jurisdiction shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for

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not more than two and one–half years in a house of correction, or by both such fine and imprisonment. In addition to, but not in lieu of, the forgoing penalties and any other sentence, fee or assessment, including the victim witness assessment in section 8 of chapter 258B, the court shall order persons convicted of a crime under this statute to pay a fine of $25 that shall be transmitted to the treasurer for deposit into the General Fund. 

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Massachusetts Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209A, § 10 Assessment Upon Assignment to Batterers’ Treatment Program.

All funds collected by the court pursuant to this section shall be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer, who shall deposit said funds in the General Fund.

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Massachusetts Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 279, § 1 Suspended Sentences — Imprisonment.

The probation officer shall give a receipt for every payment so made, shall keep a record of the same, shall pay the fine, or all sums received in part payment

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thereof, to the sheriff if such fine is imposed in the superior court, ....at the end of the period of probation or any extension thereof, and shall keep on file the sheriff's or clerk's receipt therefor.

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Massachusetts Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 276, § 87A Participation in Rehabilitative Programs or Performance of Community Service Work.

The court shall assess upon every person placed on supervised probation, including all persons placed on probation for offenses under section 24 of chapter 90, a monthly probation supervision fee, hereinafter

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referred to as “probation fee”, in the amount of $60 per month . . . Said probation fee shall be collected by the several probation offices of the trial court and shall be transmitted to the state treasurer for deposit into the General Fund of the commonwealth.

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Massachusetts Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 280, § 6A Special Cost Assessments.

Before imposing a fine or forfeiture as a punishment or part punishment for a crime, the court or justice shall levy as a special cost assessment an amount equal to

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twenty–five per cent of the fine or forfeiture . . . Said cost assessment shall be accounted for by the clerk of the court and forwarded to the state treasurer who shall deposit such assessment in the General Fund.

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Massachusetts Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 280, § 7 Certificates of Fines Imposed.

At the end of every sitting of the superior court for the transaction of criminal business, the clerk shall make and deliver to the state treasurer certificates of all fines

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imposed by the court, to the use of the commonwealth or to the treasurer of a city or town under the provisions of section two of this chapter.

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Massachusetts Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 90, § 24(1)(a)(1) Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicating Liquor or Controlled Substance.

There shall be an assessment of $50 against a person who is convicted, placed on probation or granted a continuance without a finding or who otherwise pleads guilty to or

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admits to a finding of sufficient facts for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or under the influence of marihuana, narcotic drugs, depressants or stimulant substances, all as defined by section 1 of chapter 94C, pursuant to this section or section 24D or 24E or subsection (a) or (b) of section 24G or section 24L . . . The monies collected pursuant to the fees established by this paragraph shall be transmitted monthly by the courts to the state treasurer who shall then deposit, invest and transfer the monies, from time to time, into the Victims of Drunk Driving Trust Fund established in section 66 of chapter 10. The monies shall then be administered, pursuant to said section 66 of said chapter 10, by the victim and witness assistance board for the purposes set forth in said section 66. Fees paid by an individual into the Victims of Drunk Driving Trust Fund pursuant to this section shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other fee imposed by the court pursuant to this chapter or any other chapter.

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Victims of Drunk Driving Trust Fund

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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

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the Victims of Human Trafficking Trust Fund established pursuant to section 66A of chapter 10.

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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

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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. 

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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. 

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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

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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.

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State treasurer: city, town, corporation, society or person supporting the spouse.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Local jurisdiction; municipality/municipal agency; Highway Fund

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