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Delaware | 11 Del. C. § 9014(a) | Recovery from the Criminal |
Whenever any person is convicted of an offense and a payment of compensation is, or has been, made under this chapter for a personal injury or death resulting from the act constituting such offense, the State may institute an action against such person for the recovery of the whole or any specified part of the compensation in any Superior Court within the State, or in any other court, either state or federal, if such court has custody or control of funds of the criminal or which may be awarded to the criminal. Any amounts recovered under this section shall be deposited to the fund which finances the administration of this chapter.
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Delaware | 11 Del. C. § 4101(d) | Payment of Fines, Costs and Restitution Upon Conviction |
In addition to, and at the same time as, any fine, penalty or forfeiture is assessed to any criminal defendant or any child adjudicated delinquent, there shall be levied an additional penalty of $1.00 imposed and collected by the courts for crimes or offenses as defined in § 233 of this title. When a fine, penalty or forfeiture is suspended, in whole or in part, the penalty assessment shall not be suspended. (1) Upon collection of the penalty assessment, the same shall be paid over to the prothonotary or clerk of courts, as the case may be, who shall collect the same and transmit it to the State Treasury to be deposited in a separate account for the administration of this subsection, which account shall be designated the Videophone Fund, which is hereby created. This fund is to be administered by the Criminal Justice Council. Funds shall be utilized to cover line charges, maintenance costs and purchase and upgrade of videophone systems used by state and local agencies in the criminal justice system.(2) For each fiscal year, if the balance in the Videophone Fund exceeds $ 250,000, said funds shall be transferred to the General Fund of the State of Delaware on June 30. The Criminal Justice Council shall submit a detailed spending plan for the use of the videophone funds to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and Controller General no later than September 30 of each fiscal year. No funds shall be expended until the plan is approved by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Controller General.
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Delaware | 11 Del. C. § 9016(b) | Penalty Assessment |
Upon collection of the penalty assessment, the same shall be paid over to the prothonotary or clerk of court as the case may be, who shall collect the same and transmit it to the State Treasury to be deposited in a separate account for the administration of this chapter, which account shall be designated the “Victim Compensation Fund,” which is hereby created. Beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002, the unencumbered balances on June 30 of each fiscal year in excess of $6,000,000 shall be deposited in the General Fund.
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Delaware | 11 Del. C. § 4106(d) | Restitution for Property Damage or Loss |
(d) Each court shall establish procedures for the collection and disbursement of funds ordered under this section, including notification of the victim that restitution has been ordered. Such procedures shall at minimum include the following: (1) All restitution payments shall be disbursed to victims within 90 days of receipt or whenever the accumulated amount of the restitution payments received is $ 50 or more, whichever event first occurs. (2) Where there are multiple victims, disbursements shall be in proportion to the amounts owed to each victim, with individuals to receive disbursements in full before insurance companies receive any disbursements. (3) Any and all interest earned on deposited restitution payments shall be set aside and deposited on at least a quarterly basis to the Victim Compensation Fund. Any and all principal amounts received as restitution payments which are unclaimed after 5 years from date of receipt shall be deposited in the Victim Compensation Fund. If, at any time in the future, the victim owed restitution requests the transferred funds, and makes application to the Victim Compensation Fund Board, said moneys will be refunded, following verification by the transferring Court.
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Delaware | Del. J. P. Ct. Crim. R. 58(b);(c) | Fees and Costs; Deposit of Funds |
(b) Deposit of funds. -- All funds received for criminal and traffic fines, fees and costs shall be deposited by the next banking day to the account of the General Fund of the State of Delaware. The clerk shall keep an accurate and complete record of all funds received and deposited. (c) Court Security Fund assessment. -- In addition to any other amounts assessed as fees or costs by any other statute, rule, or law, the clerk shall collect from the defendant, on each traffic or criminal charge for which there is a conviction, or a finding or an admission of responsibility for an infraction for which a civil penalty may be assessed, an amount equal to $ 10.00 as an assessment for the Court Security Fund established by 10 Del. C. § 8505(b). The amounts collected under this paragraph shall be deposited into a separate account known as the Court Security Assessment Fund.
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Court Security Fund. |
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Delaware | 11 Del. C. § 5915(a) | Fines, Costs and Restitution; Collection and Disposition |
All fines, costs, restitution, penalties, charges and emoluments imposed or levied by the Justice of the Peace Court, including those costs now levied for constables, shall be for such amounts as are provided by law, and all such amounts imposed or levied shall be collected by the Justice of the Peace Court imposing the same for which a proper receipt shall be given to the person paying the same. Every and all amounts so collected shall be recorded showing the purpose for which the amounts were collected, the name of the person paying same and such other information as the Justice of the Peace Court may require. The information so maintained shall be open to inspection by the State Treasurer and the State Auditor or their authorized agents at all times. All fines and penalties collected for each calendar month shall be paid over by the Justice of the Peace Court to the State Treasurer within 15 days after the first day of the succeeding calendar month, provided that any such fines or forfeitures which, by the laws of this State, are due and payable to a county or municipality thereof shall be paid by the Justice of the Peace Court to the county or municipality entitled thereto.
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Delaware | 11 Del. C. § 5915(b) | Fines, Costs and Restitution; Collection and Disposition |
All fines collected for the violation of any of this title, in the limits of any county, incorporated city or town in this State where arrests are procured by the authorized representatives of that county, incorporated city or town, shall be paid to that county, incorporated city or town within which such offense was committed for the use of that county, incorporated city or town. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to entitle any county to fines, penalties or forfeitures arising from an arrest made under this title by an authorized representative of that county for a violation committed within any incorporated city or town. All the fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed and collected in any county of this State for violation of any of the laws of this title, where the arrests are procured by the authorized representatives of the Department of Safety and Homeland Security, shall inure and be paid to the State Treasurer for the General Fund. Such fines, penalties and forfeitures shall be collected as other fines, penalties and forfeitures are collected under the laws of this State, and the officers collecting them shall make a monthly report thereof to the State Treasurer on blanks to be furnished for that purpose by the Department of Safety and Homeland Security. All costs collected for the violation of any of this title shall be paid to the jurisdiction whose court imposed said costs.
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Department of Safety and Homeland Security. |
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Delaware | 21 Del. C. § 706(a) | Disposition of Fines and Costs |
All fines collected for the violation of any of the provisions of this title, in the limits of any county, incorporated city or town in this State where arrests are procured by the authorized representatives of that county, incorporated city or town, shall be paid to that county, incorporated city or town within which such offense was committed for the use of that county, incorporated city or town. Nothing in this section shall be construed to entitle any county to fines, penalties or forfeitures arising from an arrest made under this title by an authorized representative of that county for a violation committed within any incorporated city or town. All the fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed and collected in any county of this State for violation of any of the laws of this title in relation to motor vehicles, where the arrests are procured by the authorized representatives of the Department of Safety and Homeland Security, shall inure and be paid to the State Treasurer for the General Fund. Such fines, penalties and forfeitures shall be collected as other fines, penalties and forfeitures are collected under the laws of this State, and the officers collecting them shall make a monthly report thereof to the State Treasurer on blanks to be furnished for that purpose by the Department of Safety and Homeland Security. All costs collected for the violation of any of the provisions of this title shall be paid to the jurisdiction whose court imposed said costs.
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Department of Safety and Homeland Security. |
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Delaware | 21 Del. C. § 706(a) | Disposition of Fines and Costs |
... All costs collected for the violation of any of the provisions of this title shall be paid to the jurisdiction whose court imposed said costs. |
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Delaware | Del. J. P. Ct. Crim. R. 58(b) | Fees and Costs; Deposit of Funds |
All funds received for criminal and traffic fines, fees and costs shall be deposited by the next banking day to the account of the General Fund of the State of Delaware. The clerk shall keep an accurate and complete record of all funds received and deposited.
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Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 280, § 14 | Commitment of Debtor — Payments. |
A person committed to a jail or house of correction in default of payment of a fine may pay it to the keeper of the jail or superintendent of the house of correction, and the warrant for his commitment shall designate the town where the offence for which the fine was imposed was committed and the uses to which such fine is payable by the officer receiving it.
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Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 265, § 42 | Use of Radio or Boom Box Without Using Earphones on Public Conveyance; Punishment; Sale of Evidence at Public Auction. |
Evidence seized pursuant to this section shall be sold at public auction and the proceeds therefrom may be applied against outstanding fines and court costs. |
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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 $250 against a person who is convicted of, is placed on probation for, or is granted a continuance without a finding for or otherwise pleads guilty to or admits to a finding of sufficient facts of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, marijuana, narcotic drugs, depressants or stimulant substances under this section; provided, however, that but $187.50 of the amount collected under this assessment shall be deposited monthly by the court with the state treasurer for who shall deposit it into the Head Injury Treatment Services Trust Fund, and the remaining amount of the assessment shall be credited to the General Fund. The assessment shall not be subject to reduction or waiver by the court for any reason.
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Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 90, § 24(2)(a) | Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicating Liquor or Controlled Substance. |
There shall be an assessment of $250 against a person who, by a court of the commonwealth, is convicted of, is placed on probation for or is granted a continuance without a finding for or otherwise pleads guilty to or admits to a finding of sufficient facts of operating a motor vehicle negligently so that the lives or safety of the public might be endangered under this section, but $250 of the $250 collected under this assessment shall be deposited monthly by the court with the state treasurer, who shall deposit it in the Head Injury Treatment Services Trust Fund, and the remaining amount of the assessment shall be credited to the General Fund.
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Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 90B, § 39(b) | Motorboats, Other Vessels and Recreational Vehicles: Fees — Surcharge. |
(b) There shall be a surcharge of 20 per cent on a fine assessed against a person convicted of or found responsible for a violation under this chapter or a violation of a special regulation made under this chapter. Notwithstanding the distribution of fines, penalties and forfeitures under section 10G of chapter 21A, the surcharge shall be deposited into the Massachusetts Environmental Police Trust Fund.
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Massachusetts Environmental Police Trust Fund. |
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Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 265, § 54 | Human Trafficking — Fines to be Directed to Victims of Human Trafficking Trust Fund. |
The court shall transmit fines collected pursuant to sections 50 and 51 to the state treasurer. The treasurer shall deposit such fines into the Victims of Human Trafficking Trust Fund established in section 66A of chapter 10.
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Victims of Human Trafficking Trust Fund |
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Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 266 §133 | Injury to Property of Humane Society. |
One half of any fine paid hereunder shall be paid to the person who gives information upon which a conviction is obtained. |
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Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 90, § 24D | Drivers Convicted of Operating Motor Vehicle Under the Influence of Intoxicating Liquors or Controlled Substances. |
An additional fee of two hundred and fifty dollars shall be paid to the chief probation officer of each court by each person placed in a program of driver alcohol or controlled substance abuse education pursuant to this section and all such fees shall be deposited with the state treasurer, subject to appropriation, for the support of programs operated by the secretary of public safety, the alcohol beverage control commission, and the department of public health for the investigation, enforcement, treatment and rehabilitation of those persons convicted of or charged with driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs.
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Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 266 §135 | Mooring Vessel to a Buoy. |
Whoever moors or in any manner makes fast a vessel, scow, boat or raft to a buoy, beacon or floating guide placed by the government of the United States in the navigable waters of the commonwealth shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars; and whoever wilfully destroys, injures or removes any such beacon or guide shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than three months. One third of all fines which accrue under this section shall be paid to the complainant and two–thirds to the commonwealth.
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Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 90B, § 8(a)(4)(B) | Operation of Vessel Under Influence of Liquor or Drugs; Water Skiing; Reckless Operation. |
There shall be an assessment of $250 against a person who is convicted of, placed on probation for, or otherwise pleads guilty to or admits to a finding of sufficient facts of operating a vessel while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or marijuana, narcotic drugs, depressant or stimulant substances or from smelling or inhaling the fumes of any substance having the property of releasing toxic vapors as defined in section 18 of chapter 270; provided, however, that $150 of the $250 collected under this assessment shall be deposited by the court with the state treasurer into the Head Injury Treatment Services Trust Fund, established by section 59 of chapter 10, and the remaining amount of the assessment shall be credited to the General Fund. The assessment shall not be subject to reduction or waiver by the court for any reason.
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