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Rhode Island R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-25-28(a) Special indemnity account for criminal injuries compensation
It is provided that the general treasurer establish a violent crimes indemnity account within the general fund for the purpose of paying awards granted pursuant to this chapter. The court
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shall assess as court costs in addition to those provided by law, against all defendants charged with a felony, misdemeanor, or petty misdemeanor, whether or not the crime was a crime of violence, and who plead nolo contendere, guilty or who are found guilty of the commission of those crimes as follows:(1) Where the offense charged is a felony and carries a maximum penalty of five (5) or more years imprisonment, one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) or fifteen percent (15%) of any fine imposed on the defendant by the court, whichever is greater. (2) Where the offense charged is a felony and carries a maximum penalty of less than five (5) years imprisonment, ninety dollars ($90.00) or fifteen percent (15%) of any fine imposed on the defendant by the court, whichever is greater. (3) Where the offense charged is a misdemeanor, thirty dollars ($30.00) or fifteen percent (15%) of any fine imposed on the defendant by the court, whichever is greater.
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Rhode Island R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-21-10 Disposition of recoveries

Unless otherwise specially provided: (1) All fines recovered shall be to the use of the state; (2) All penalties and pecuniary forfeitures, one-half (1/2) to the use of the state and one-half

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(1/2) to the use of the person who shall sue for it; and (3) All forfeitures of personal property shall be disposed of as provided by law.

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Rhode Island R.I. Gen Laws. Ann. § 12-21-12 Payment of costs taxable to cities or towns out of fines due

All costs taxed by courts in criminal prosecutions, which by law any city or town is or may be required to pay, may be paid by the clerk to the

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several persons entitled to them, out of fines in his or her hands belonging to the city or town; provided, that fines received by the clerk which are by law to be applied to the support of the public schools shall not be used in the payment of these costs.

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Rhode Island R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-21-16 Payments of amounts due to the state

All fines and all penalties and forfeitures to the use of the state shall be paid over to the general treasurer, unless otherwise specially provided.

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Rhode Island R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-21-17 Payment and accounting for fines due other than to state

All fines recovered under any statute of this state, the whole or any part of which may be due or payable to any city, town, or society, or to any

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person as complainant, shall be accounted for with the state controller, and be paid to the general treasurer. The general treasurer shall, upon the order of the state controller, pay to the city, town, society, or person so much of the amount of the fine so recovered as the city, town, society, or person may be entitled to, which order shall be drawn by the state controller whenever he or she shall receive a proper return or certificate from the clerk of the court in which the fine was imposed.

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Local jurisdiction; complainant; municipality/municipal agency.

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Rhode Island R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-21-18 Payment of fine liquidated by labor

Whenever a fine payable in whole or in part, to any city, town, or society, or to any person as complainant, shall have been liquidated by the labor of the

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person fined, or paid by him or her at any jail in the state, the general treasurer shall, upon the proper order of the state controller, pay to the city, town, society or person so much of the amount of the fine so liquidated or paid, as the city, town, society, or person may be entitled to, which order of the state controller shall be by him or her drawn on his or her receiving a proper return or certificate from the clerk of the court in which the fine was imposed, together with a proper return or certificate from the jailer.

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Rhode Island R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-21-19 Payment of fines to general treasurer - accounting

Whenever a fine is recovered under any statute of this state, the whole of which may be due the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the

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Children's Friend and Service, or to any other society, or the one-half ( ½ ) of which may be due the state or any society, or to any person, as complainant, the whole of the fine shall be accounted for with the state controller and paid to the general treasurer. The fine due any society, or the one-half ( ½ ) fine due any society, or to any person, as complainant, shall be paid by the general treasurer upon order of the state controller and the state controller shall draw his or her order whenever he or she shall receive a proper return or certificate from the clerk of the court in which the fine was imposed.

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Rhode Island R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 8-15-11(b) Electronic filing and online payments

The collection of technology surcharges shall be monitored and supervised by the judiciary's director of finance and shall be deposited into a restricted receipt account designated as “Rhode Island judiciary

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technology surcharge account,” the proceeds of which shall be solely for use by the judiciary in support of its technology infrastructure and case management system. On or before January 15, 2015, and annually thereafter on or before January 15, the judiciary's director of finance shall file a report with the governor, the speaker of the house, and the president of the senate detailing: (1) The total amount of funds collected and deposited into the judiciary technology surcharge account for the most recently completed fiscal year; (2) The fund balance as of the date of the report; (3) An itemization of all expenditures and other uses of said funds from said account for the most recently completed fiscal year; and (4) An annual evaluation as to the appropriateness of the amount of the technology surcharge or fee.

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Rhode Island R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-25-29 Use of funds to inform victims of their rights

There is appropriated to the annual budget of the administrative office of the state courts fifteen percent (15%) of the fund collected annually under § 12-25-28, not to exceed one

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hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000), to be used at the direction of the chief justice of the supreme court for the purpose of informing the victims of crime of their rights established by chapter 28 of this title and assisting victims in the exercise of these rights. In addition, the treasurer and administrator shall seek to inform victims of violent crime of this chapter using every available means at their disposal.

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Rhode Island R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-25-30 Deposit of funds

All moneys assessed pursuant to § 12-25-28 as costs against defendants as provided in this chapter shall be paid by the clerks of the family, district and superior courts to

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the treasurer, who shall keep the funds in the violent crimes indemnity account. Funds received by the treasurer in excess of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) shall be made available and distributed within thirty (30) days of receipt in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

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Rhode Island R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 11-4-8 Arson - seventh degree

Every person who shall make a bonfire in any public street, road, square, land or rotary, without special permission from the local governing body, shall be fined not exceeding one

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hundred dollars ($100). No complaint for a violation of any of the provisions of this section shall be sustained unless it shall be brought within thirty (30) days after the commission of the offense, and all fines for the violation shall inure one-half (1/2) of the fine to the complainant and one-half (1/2) of the fine to the state. The local governing body may appoint a designee to grant permission under the provisions of this section.

Private actors

State/state agency.

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Rhode Island R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 11-9-13.1(f) Cigarette and tobacco vending machines

One-half ( ½ ) of all the fines collected pursuant to this section shall be transferred to the municipalities in which the citations originated. One-half ( ½ ) of all

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the fines collected pursuant to this section shall be transferred to the general fund.

Municipality/municipal agency

General fund

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Rhode Island R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 11-9-13.17 Fines collected

(a) One-half ( ½ ) of all the fines collected pursuant to §§ 11-9-13.2 -- 11-9-13.20 shall be transferred to the municipalities in which the citation originated.
(b) One-half (

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½ ) of all the fines collected pursuant to §§ 11-9-13.2 -- 11-9-13.20 shall be transferred to the general fund.

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Rhode Island R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 11-8-6 Entry to steal poultry--Arrest--Fine

One-half ( ½ ) of any fine imposed under this section shall inure to the complainant.

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Rhode Island R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 11-22-5 Penalty for unlawful windmill

Every person who shall erect, locate, or run any windmill within twenty-five (25) rods of any traveled street or road shall be fined for every offense not exceeding five hundred

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dollars ($500) nor less than one hundred dollars ($100), one-half (1/2) inuring to the use of the city or town where the offense shall have been committed and one-half (1/2) to the use of the state.

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Rhode Island R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 11-30-4 Penalty for nuisance involving intoxicating liquors

Money arising from fines imposed under this section shall be paid one-half ( ½ ) to the general treasurer of the state and one-half ( ½ ) to the treasurer

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of the town or city where the offense occurred.
 

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Rhode Island R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-18.1-4 Deposit of and use of proceeds

All revenues collected under section 12-18.1-3 shall be deposited as general revenues.

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West Virginia W. Va. Code § 62-5-10 Mandatory cost assessed upon conviction of a felony

(a) Every circuit court shall assess, in every felony criminal matter as a cost to the defendant, an assessment in the sum of seventy-five dollars for each felony count of conviction

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(b) The clerk of the circuit court wherein the assessment is imposed under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall, on or before the last day of each month, transmit all costs received pursuant to this section to the State Treasurer for deposit as follows: Fifty dollars to the credit of the Crime Victims Compensation Fund created by the provisions of section four [§ 14-2A-4], article two-a, chapter fourteen of this code and twenty-five dollars to the credit of the West Virginia Community Corrections Fund created by the provisions of section four [§ 62-11C-4], article eleven-c of this chapter.

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Crime Victims Compensation Fund; West Virginia Community Corrections Fund

Felony
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West Virginia W. Va. Code § 59-1-11(b)(7)-(8),(11), (d)-(f) Fees to be charged by clerk of circuit court

(b) In addition to the foregoing fees, the following fees shall be charged and collected: (7) For docketing and issuing an execution on a transcript of judgment from magistrate court, $3; (8) For

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arranging the papers in a certified question, writ of error, appeal, or removal to any other court, $10, of which $5 shall be deposited in the Courthouse Facilities Improvement Fund created by §29-26-6 of this code;(11) For administering funds deposited into a federally insured interest-bearing account or interest-bearing instrument pursuant to a court order, $50, to be collected from the party making the deposit. A fee collected pursuant to this subdivision shall be paid into the general county fund.

(d) The clerk shall tax the following fees for services in a criminal case against a defendant convicted in such court: (1) In the case of a misdemeanor, $85; and (2) In the case of a felony, $105, of which $10 shall be deposited in the Courthouse Facilities Improvement Fund created by §29-26-6 of this code.

(e) The clerk of a circuit court shall charge and collect a fee of $25 per bond for services rendered by the clerk for processing of criminal bonds and the fee shall be paid at the time of issuance by the person or entity set forth below:(1) For cash bonds, the fee shall be paid by the person tendering cash as bond; (2) For recognizance bonds secured by real estate, the fee shall be paid by the owner of the real estate serving as surety; (3) For recognizance bonds secured by a surety company, the fee shall be paid by the surety company; (4) For ten percent recognizance bonds with surety, the fee shall be paid by the person serving as surety; and (5) For ten percent recognizance bonds without surety, the fee shall be paid by the person tendering ten percent of the bail amount. In instances in which the total of the bond is posted by more than one bond instrument, the above fee shall be collected at the time of issuance of each bond instrument processed by the clerk and all fees collected pursuant to this subsection shall be deposited in the Courthouse Facilities Improvement Fund created by section six, article twenty-six, chapter twenty-nine of this code. Nothing in this subsection authorizes the clerk to collect the above fee from any person for the processing of a personal recognizance bond.

(f) The clerk of a circuit court shall charge and collect a fee of $10 for services rendered by the clerk for processing of bail piece and the fee shall be paid by the surety at the time of issuance. All fees collected pursuant to this subsection shall be deposited in the Courthouse Facilities Improvement Fund created by §29-26-6 of this code.

State courts

Courthouse Facilities Improvement Fund; county.

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West Virginia W. Va. Code § 59-1-11a Additional costs in certain criminal proceedings

(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, in each criminal case before a circuit court in which the defendant is convicted, whether by plea or at

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trial, under the provisions of section two [§ 17C-5-2], article five, chapter seventeen-c of this code or section eighteen-b [§ 20-7-18b], article seven, chapter twenty of this code, there shall be imposed, in addition to other costs, fines, forfeitures or penalties as may be allowed by law, costs in the amount of fifty-five dollars. For purposes of further defraying the cost to the county of enforcing the provisions of section two, article five, chapter seventeen-c of this code or section eighteen-b, article seven, chapter twenty of this code and related provisions, the clerk of the circuit court shall, on or before the tenth day of the month following the month in which the costs imposed in this section were collected, remit an amount equal to the amount from each of the criminal proceedings in which the costs specified in this subsection were collected to the sheriff of the county who shall deposit the same in the general revenue fund of the county.

(b) In each criminal case before a circuit court upon appeal from a magistrate court in which the defendant is convicted, whether by plea or at trial in the circuit court, under the provisions of section two, article five, chapter seventeen-c of this code or section eighteen-b, article seven, chapter twenty of this code, there shall be imposed, in addition to other costs, fines, forfeitures or penalties as may be allowed by law, costs in the amount of fifty-five dollars. For purposes of further defraying the cost to the county of enforcing the provisions of section two, article five, chapter seventeen-c of this code or section eighteen-b, article seven, chapter twenty of this code and related provisions, the clerk of the circuit court shall, on or before the tenth day of the month following the month in which the costs imposed in this section were collected, remit an amount equal to the amount from each of the criminal proceedings in which the costs specified in this subsection were collected to the sheriff of the county who shall deposit the same in the general revenue fund of the county. The provisions of this subsection shall not require payment of the costs imposed by this subsection to the circuit court where the costs have been paid in the magistrate court.

(c) In each criminal case before a circuit court upon appeal from a municipal proceeding in which the defendant is convicted, whether by plea or at trial in the circuit court, under the provisions of a municipal ordinance which has the same elements as an offense described in section two, article five, chapter seventeen-c of this code or section eighteen-b, article seven, chapter twenty of this code, there shall be imposed, in addition to other costs, fines, forfeitures or penalties as may be allowed by law, costs in the amount of fifty-five dollars. For purposes of further defraying the cost to the municipality of enforcing the provisions of the ordinance or ordinances described in this subsection and related provisions, the clerk of the circuit court shall, on or before the tenth day of the month following the month in which the costs imposed in this section were collected, remit an amount equal to the amount from each of the criminal proceedings in which the costs specified in this subsection were collected to the clerk of the municipal court or other person designated to receive fines and costs for the municipality from which the conviction was appealed who shall deposit these moneys in the general revenue fund of the municipality. The provisions of this subsection shall not require payment of the costs imposed by this subsection to the circuit court where the costs have been paid to the clerk of the municipal court or other person designated to receive fines and costs for the municipality.

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