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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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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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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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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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Mississippi | Miss. Code Ann. § 99-27-37 | Money for municipal enforcement |
The board of supervisors of any county in this state and mayor and board of aldermen, or board of aldermen and councilmen, as the case may be, of any municipality + See morein this state are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate, from time to time, sums of money, not exceeding one-third ( ⅓ ) of the fines which have been collected by them respectively, from the unlawful sale or possession of intoxicating liquors and/or narcotics and/or other illegal drugs, for the purpose of defraying expenses incurred by law enforcement agencies in the procuring of evidence of violations of statutes or ordinances, as the case may be, against the unlawful sale or keeping of intoxicating liquors and/or narcotics and/or other illegal drugs. For the purpose of this section, the word “expenses” shall include, but not be limited to, expenditures related to surveillance, the purchase of investigative equipment, the purchase of samples to be used as evidence, the purchase of information, and the defraying of living expenses of persons specially employed in investigations.
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Mississippi | Miss. Code. Ann. § 9-23-51 | Drug Court fund |
There is created in the State Treasury a special interest-bearing fund to be known as the Drug Court Fund. The purpose of the fund shall be to provide supplemental funding + See moreto all drug courts in the state. Monies from the funds derived from assessments under Section 99-19-73 shall be distributed by the State Treasurer upon warrants issued by the Administrative Office of Courts, pursuant to procedures set by the State Drug Courts Advisory Committee to assist both juvenile drug courts and adult drug courts. Funds from other sources shall be distributed to the drug courts in the state based on a formula set by the State Drug Courts Advisory Committee. The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal-year limitations, and shall consist of: (a) monies appropriated by the Legislature for the purposes of funding drug courts; (b) the interest accruing to the fund; (c) monies received under the provisions of Section 99-19-73; (d) monies received from the federal government; and (e) monies received from such other sources as may be provided by law.
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Mississippi | Miss. Code. Ann. § 99-19-73(11) | Assessment schedule; collection and disbursement |
It shall be the duty of the Department of Finance and Administration to deposit on a monthly basis all state assessments into the State General Fund or proper special fund + See morein the State Treasury. The Department of Finance and Administration shall issue regulations providing for the proper allocation of these funds.
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Mississippi | Miss. Code. Ann. § 99-19-73(10)(c) | Assessment schedule; collection and disbursement |
(c) It shall be the duty of the municipal clerk of each municipality to deposit all the state assessments collected in the municipal court in the municipality on a monthly + See morebasis with the State Treasurer pursuant to appropriate procedures established by the State Auditor. The municipal clerk shall make a monthly lump-sum deposit of the total state assessments collected in the municipal court in the municipality under this section, and shall report to the Department of Finance and Administration the total number of violations under each subsection for which state assessments were collected in the municipal court in the municipality during that month.
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Mississippi | Miss. Code. Ann. § 99-19-73(10)(b) | Assessment schedule; collection and disbursement |
It shall be the duty of the chancery clerk of each county to deposit all state assessments collected in the circuit, county and justice courts in the county on a + See moremonthly basis with the State Treasurer pursuant to appropriate procedures established by the State Auditor. The chancery clerk shall make a monthly lump-sum deposit of the total state assessments collected in the circuit, county and justice courts in the county under this section, and shall report to the Department of Finance and Administration the total number of violations under each subsection for which state assessments were collected in the circuit, county and justice courts in the county during that month.
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Mississippi | Miss. Code. Ann. § 99-19-73(10)(c) | Assessment schedule; collection and disbursement |
After a determination by the court of the amount due, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court to promptly collect all state assessments imposed under the + See moreprovisions of this section. The state assessments imposed under the provisions of this section may not be paid by personal check.
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Mississippi | Miss. Code Ann. § 97-15-29 (3) | Keep Mississippi Beautiful, Inc.; litter prevention programs |
The proceeds of such fines shall be expended by the collecting jurisdiction solely for the purpose of funding local litter prevention programs or projects or local or school litter education + See moreprograms as recommended by the statewide litter prevention program of Keep Mississippi Beautiful, Inc.
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Municipality/municipal agency | N/A | Misdemeanor |
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Mississippi | Miss. Code Ann. § 97-15-29 (7) | Law Enforcement Officers Monument Fund; Postsecondary Education Financial Assistance Board |
The assessment shall be deposited into the Law Enforcement Officers Monument Fund created in Section 39-5-71. After the monument is constructed, the assessment shall not be deposited into the fund. + See moreThe assessment shall then be deposited with the Postsecondary Education Financial Assistance Board to be used for the scholarship program for children of deceased or disabled law enforcement officers and firemen as provided by Section 37-106-39.
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State/statewide agency | N/A | Misdemeanor |
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Mississippi | Miss. Code Ann. § 97-17-13 (3) | Mississippi Forestry Commission; fire suppression agencies |
a person shall be ordered to reimburse and pay in restitution directly to any organized fire suppression agency recognized by the Mississippi Forestry Commission all the costs the agency incurred + See morerelated to the suppression and abatement of the fire.
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Mississippi | Miss. Code Ann. § 97-17-43 (3)(d) | State General Fund |
The restoration fee shall be in addition to the fees provided for in Title 63, Chapter 1, and shall be deposited into the State General Fund in accordance with Section + See more45-1-23.
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