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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 103.004(a),(d) | Disposition of Collected Money |
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), an officer who collects recognizances, bail bonds, fines, forfeitures, judgments, jury fees, and other obligations recovered in the name of the state under any provision of this title shall deposit the money in the county treasury not later than the next regular business day after the date that the money is collected. If it is not possible for the officer to deposit the money in the county treasury by that date, the officer shall deposit the money in the county treasury as soon as possible, but not later than the fifth regular business day after the date that the money is collected.
(d) The custodian of the county treasury shall deposit money received from fees imposed under Article 102.012 in the special fund of the county treasury for the community supervision and corrections department serving the county. |
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Texas | Tex. Govt. Code Sec. 134.101 | Local Consolidated Fee on Conviction of Felony |
(a) A person convicted of a felony shall pay $105 as a court cost, in addition to all other costs, on conviction. received under this section to the following accounts and funds so that each receives to the extent practicable, utilizing historical data as applicable, the same amount of money the account or fund would have received if the court costs for the accounts and funds had been collected and reported separately, except that the account or fund may not receive less than the following percentages:
(1) the clerk of the court account 38.0953 percent; (2) the county records management and preservation fund 23.8095 percent; (3) the county jury fund 0.9524 percent; (4) the courthouse security fund 9.5238 percent; (5) the county and district court technology fund 3.8095 percent; and (6) the county specialty court account 23.8095 percent. |
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 102.016 | Costs for Breath Alcohol Testing Program |
(a) The custodians of municipal and county treasuries may deposit funds collected under this article in interest-bearing accounts and retain for the municipality or county interest earned on the funds. The custodians shall keep records of funds received and disbursed under this article and shall provide a yearly report of all funds received and disbursed under this article to the comptroller, the Department of Public Safety, and to each agency in the county served by the court that participates in or maintains a certified breath alcohol testing program. The comptroller shall approve the form of the report.
(b) The custodian of a municipal or county treasury in a county that maintains a certified breath alcohol testing program but does not use the services of a certified technical supervisor employed by the department may, to defray the costs of maintaining and supporting a certified breath alcohol testing program, retain $22.50 of each court cost collected under Section 133.102, Local Government Code, on conviction of an offense under Chapter 49, Penal Code, other than an offense that is a Class C misdemeanor. (c) The legislature may appropriate money deposited to the credit of the breath alcohol testing account in the general revenue fund under this subsection to the Department of Public Safety for use by the department in the implementation, administration, and maintenance of the statewide certified breath alcohol testing program. |
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 102.0178(g) | Costs Attendant to Certain Intoxication and Drug Convictions |
(g) The comptroller shall deposit the funds received under this article to the credit of the drug court account in the general revenue fund to help fund drug court programs established under Chapter 122, 123, 124, 125, or 129, Government Code, or former law. The legislature shall appropriate money from the account solely to the criminal justice division of the governor's office for distribution to drug court programs that apply for the money.
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Texas | Tex. Gov't. Code § 76.013 | Restitution |
(a) If a judge requires a defendant to make restitution to a victim of the defendant's offense, and a restitution payment is received by a department from the defendant for transmittal to a victim of the offense, the department shall immediately deposit the payment in an interest-bearing account in the county treasury as required by Section 140.003(f), Local Government Code.
(b) If a department receives an initial restitution payment, the department shall immediately notify the victim by certified mail, mailed to the last known address of the victim, that the restitution payment has been received and shall inform the victim of how a claim for payment of restitution can be made. (b-1) If a victim makes a claim for payment of restitution with the department, the department shall promptly remit to the victim all restitution payments received by the department from the defendant for transmittal to the victim. |
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 102.0045(b) | Fee for Jury Reimbursement to Counties |
b) The clerk of the court shall remit the fees collected under this article to the comptroller in the manner provided by Subchapter B,1 Chapter 133, Local Government Code. The comptroller shall deposit the fees in the jury service fund.
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 102.0121 | Fees for Certain Expenses Related to Pretrial Intervention Programs |
(a) A district attorney, criminal district attorney, or county attorney may collect a fee in an amount not to exceed $500 to be used to reimburse a county for expenses, including expenses of the district attorney's, criminal district attorney's, or county attorney's office, related to a defendant's participation in a pretrial intervention program offered in that county.
(b) The district attorney, criminal district attorney, or county attorney may collect the fee from any defendant who participates in a pretrial intervention program administered in any part by the attorney's office. (c) Fees collected under this article shall be deposited in the county treasury in a special fund to be used solely to administer the pretrial intervention program. An expenditure from the fund may be made only in accordance with a budget approved by the commissioners court. |
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 102.0172(c) | Court Costs; Municipal Court Technology Fund |
(c) The municipal court clerk shall collect the costs and pay the funds to the municipal treasurer, or to any other official who discharges the duties commonly delegated to the municipal treasurer, for deposit in a fund to be known as the municipal court technology fund.
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 102.017(2) | Court Costs; Courthouse Security Fund; Municipal Court Building Security Fund; Justice Court Building Security Fund |
(2) The county treasurer shall deposit one-fourth of the cost of court collected under Subsection (b) in a justice court described by Subdivision (1) into a fund to be known as the justice court building security fund. A fund designated by this subsection may be used only for the purpose of providing security personnel, services, and items for a justice court located in a building that is not the county courthouse.
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 102.0173(c) | Court costs; justice court assistance and technology fund |
(c) The municipal court clerk shall collect the costs and pay the funds to the municipal treasurer, or to any other official who discharges the duties commonly delegated to the municipal treasurer, for deposit in a fund to be known as the municipal court technology fund.
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 102.0174(d) | Court Costs; Juvenile Case Manager Fund |
(f) The clerks of the respective courts shall collect the costs and pay them to the county or municipal treasurer, as applicable, or to any other official who discharges the duties commonly delegated to the county or municipal treasurer for deposit in the fund.
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Juvenile Case Manager Fund |
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 102.0178(c) | Costs Attendant to Certain Intoxication and Drug Convictions |
(c) Court costs under this article are collected in the same manner as other fines or costs. An officer collecting the costs shall keep separate records of the funds collected as costs under this article and shall deposit the funds in the county treasury, as appropriate.
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 102.0186(c) | Fine for Certain Child Sexual Assault and Related Convictions |
(c) The clerks of the respective courts shall collect the fines and pay the fines to the county treasurer or to any other official who discharges the duties commonly delegated to the county treasurer for deposit in a fund to be known as the county child abuse prevention fund. A fund designated by this subsection may be used only to fund child abuse prevention programs in the county where the court is located.
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county child abuse prevention fund |
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 102.020(d) | Costs Related to DNA Testing |
(d) Court costs under this article are collected in the same manner as other fines or costs. An officer collecting the costs shall keep separate records of the funds collected as costs under this article and shall deposit the funds in the county treasury.
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 102.022(d) | Costs on Conviction to Fund Statewide Repository for Data Related to Civil Justice |
(d) The clerks of the respective courts shall collect the costs described by this article. The clerk shall keep separate records of the funds collected as costs under this article and shall deposit the funds in the county or municipal treasury, as appropriate.
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 17.1-285. | Payment of excess. |
A. The Commonwealth shall be entitled to one-third of the excess fees collected by clerks as required to be reported under § 17.1-283 and the governing body of the county or city + See moreshall be entitled to two-thirds of the excess fees collected unless otherwise provided by law. The Compensation Board shall determine on an annual basis by June 30 of each year the methods by which excess fees shall be disbursed.
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 17.1-286. | Disposition of state funds locally collected. |
All state funds collected by clerks of courts shall be paid into the state treasury without deductions on account of their compensation or on account of expenses. The Comptroller shall + See morepromptly forward to such officers his warrants on the State Treasurer for the compensation due them and the estimated amount allowed them out of such funds for expenses.
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 16.1-69.48(A) | Fees collected by courts not of record paid to state treasury |
A. All fees collected by the judge, substitute judge, clerk or employees, but not including fees belonging to officers other than the judge, clerk or employees, of a general district + See morecourt or juvenile and domestic relations district court shall be paid promptly to the clerk of the circuit court who shall pay the same into the state treasury.
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 16.1-69.48(A) | Fees for service of attorney of commonwealth |
Fees collected for services of the attorney for the Commonwealth shall be paid by the clerk of the circuit court, one-half of such fee shall be paid into the treasury + See moreof the county or city in which the offense for which warrant issued was committed, and the other one-half of such fees shall be paid by such clerk on his monthly remittance into the state treasury.
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-340.1. | Disposition of fines in criminal cases. |
When a law-enforcement officer of (i) the Department of State Police or (ii) any other division of the state government makes an arrest or issues a summons for a violation + See moreof a provision of the Code of Virginia, the person arrested or summoned shall be charged with a violation of that Code provision and shall not be charged with a substantially similar local ordinance. All fines collected upon conviction of any person so arrested or summoned shall be credited to the Literary Fund.
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