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Vermont | Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 23 § 1210(i)-(k) | Drunken Driving - Penalties |
(i) A person convicted of violating section 1201 of this title shall be assessed a surcharge of $ 60.00, which shall be added to any fine imposed by the Court. The Court shall collect and transfer such surcharge to the Department of Public Safety for deposit in the Blood and Breath Alcohol Testing Special Fund established by section 1220b of this title.
(j) A person convicted of violating section 1201 of this title shall be assessed a surcharge of $ 50.00, which shall be added to any fine or surcharge imposed by the Court. The Court shall collect and transfer the surcharge assessed under this subsection to the Office of Defender General for deposit in the Public Defender Special Fund specifying the source of the monies being deposited. The collection procedures described in 13 V.S.A. § 5240 shall be utilized in the collection of this surcharge. (k) A person convicted of violating section 1201 of this title shall be assessed a surcharge of $ 50.00, which shall be added to any fine or surcharge imposed by the Court. The Court shall collect and transfer the surcharge assessed under this subsection to be credited to the DUI Enforcement Fund. The collection procedures described in 13 V.S.A. § 5240 shall be utilized in the collection of this surcharge. |
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Blood and Breath Alcohol Testing Special Fund; Public Defender Special Fund; DUI Enforcement Fund. |
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Vermont | Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 13 § 7251(a),(d) | Municipalities; payment to and liability of |
(a) Fines, forfeitures, and penalties, imposed by the District or Superior court or by the Judicial Bureau for violation of a village, town, or city ordinance shall be paid to the village, town, or city, respectively, except for a $ 12.50 administrative charge for each case which shall be retained by the State.
(d) Fines, forfeitures, and penalties imposed by the Judicial Bureau for violations of subdivisions 352(3), (4), and (9) of this title, relating to animal cruelty that result from the enforcement by villages, towns, and cities within their jurisdiction shall be paid to the respective village, town, or city, except for a $ 12.50 administrative charge for each violation that shall be retained by the State. |
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$12.50 administrative charge for each case which shall be retained by the state |
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Vermont | Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 13 § 7252 | Fines and penalties payable to State |
All fines, forfeitures, and penalties received by the district or superior court or by the judicial bureau, except as provided in section 7251 of this title, shall belong and be paid to the state, except for a $12.50 administrative charge for each offense or violation where a fine or penalty is assessed. The administrative charge shall be deposited in the court technology special fund established pursuant to 4 V.S.A. § 27.
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State/state agency (court technology special fund). |
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Vermont | Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 13 § 7282(a),(c) | Surcharge |
(a) In addition to any penalty or fine imposed by the court or Judicial Bureau for a criminal offense or any civil penalty imposed for a traffic violation, including any violation of a fish and wildlife statute or regulation, violation of a motor vehicle statute, or violation of any local ordinance relating to the operation of a motor vehicle, except violations relating to seat belts and child restraints and ordinances relating to parking violations, the clerk of the court or Judicial Bureau shall levy an additional surcharge of:
(2) $ 8.00 for any offense or violation committed after May 31, 1990, but before July 1, 1991, of which $ 3.00 shall be deposited into a special fund account to be known as the Victim' Compensation Fund. (3) $ 10.00 for any offense or violation committed after June 30, 1991, but before July 1, 1993, of which $ 5.00 shall be deposited into a special fund account to be known as the Victims Compensation Fund. (4) $ 17.50 for any offense or violation committed after June 30, 1993, but before July 1, 2001, of which $ 12.50 shall be deposited into a special fund account to be known as the Victims Compensation Fund. (5) $ 20.50 for any offense or violation committed after June 30, 2001, but before July 1, 2003, of which $ 13.50 shall be deposited into a special fund account to be known as the Victims Compensation Fund. (6) For any offense or violation committed after June 30, 2003, but before July 1, 2005, $ 21.00, of which $ 13.75 shall be deposited into the Victims Compensation Special Fund. (7) For any offense or violation committed after June 30, 2005, but before July 1, 2006, $ 22.00, of which $ 14.75 shall be deposited into the Victims Compensation Special Fund. (8) (A) For any offense or violation committed after June 30, 2006, but before July 1, 2008, $ 26.00, of which $ 18.75 shall be deposited in the Victims Compensation Special Fund. (B) For any offense or violation committed after June 30, 2008, but before July 1, 2009, $ 36.00, of which $ 28.75 shall be deposited in the Victims' Compensation Special Fund. (C) For any offense or violation committed after June 30, 2009, but before July 1, 2013, $ 41.00, of which $ 23.75 shall be deposited in the Victims Compensation Special Fund created by section 5359 of this title, and of which $ 10.00 shall be deposited in the Domestic and Sexual Violence Special Fund created by section 5360 of this title. (D) For any offense or violation committed after June 30, 2013, $ 47.00, of which $ 29.75 shall be deposited in the Victims Compensation Special Fund created by section 5359 of this title, and of which $ 10.00 shall be deposited in the Domestic and Sexual Violence Special Fund created by section 5360 of this title. (9) For any offense or violation committed after June 30, 2003, an amount equal to 15 percent of the fine imposed for the offense, rounded upward to the nearest whole dollar, which shall be deposited into the Crime Victims' Restitution Special Fund established by section 5363 of this title. (c) SUI surcharge. -- In addition to any penalty or fine imposed by the court or Judicial Bureau for a criminal offense committed after July 1, 2009, the clerk of the court or Judicial Bureau shall levy an additional surcharge of $ 100.00 to be deposited in the General Fund, in support of the Specialized Investigative Unit Grants Board created in 24 V.S.A. § 1940(c), and used to pay for the costs of Specialized Investigative Units. |
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General Fund (for the Specialized Investigative Unit Grants Board). |
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Vermont | Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 13 § 5239(a) | Public Defender Special Fund |
The Public Defender Special Fund is hereby created. All co-payments, reimbursements, and assignment fees paid by persons receiving representation under this chapter, as well as all amounts recovered pursuant to section 5255 of this title and 23 V.S.A. § 1210(j), shall be deposited in the Fund.
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Public Defender Special Fund |
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Vermont | Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 4 § 27 | Court technology special fund |
There is established the Court Technology Special Fund which shall be managed in accordance with 32 V.S.A. chapter 7, subchapter 5. Administrative fees collected pursuant to 13 V.S.A. § 7252 and revenue collected pursuant to fees established pursuant to sections 1105 and 1109 of this title shall be deposited and credited to this Fund. The Fund shall be available to the Judicial Branch to pay for contractual and operating expenses and project-related staffing not covered by the General Fund related to the following:
(1) The acquisition and maintenance of software and hardware needed for case management, electronic filing, an electronic document management system, and the expense of implementation, including training. (2) The acquisition and maintenance of electronic audio and video court recording and conferencing equipment. (3) The acquisition, maintenance, and support of the Judiciary's information technology network, including training. |
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Vermont | Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 13 § 7254 | Unorganized towns and gores |
Unless otherwise disposed of by law, fines, forfeitures, and penalties imposed on a person residing in an unorganized town or gore, shall belong and be paid to the State. |
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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 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, 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 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.
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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 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 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 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 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, 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.
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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 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. § 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 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 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 the general fund of the county.
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