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Montana | Mont. Code Ann. § 46-17-303 | Deposit of Fines--Collection |
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2), all fines imposed and collected by the court must be paid to the appropriate treasurer of the county, city, or town within 30 + See moredays of receipt. The judge shall file a copy of any receipt given for a collected fine with the appropriate county, city, or town clerk.
(2)(a) The court may contract with a private person or entity for the collection of any final judgment that requires a payment to the court.
(b) In the event that a private person or entity is retained to collect a judgment, the court may assign the judgment to the private person or entity and the private person or entity may, as an assignee, institute suit or other lawful collection procedure and other postjudgment remedies in its own name.
(c) The court, after deducting the charges provided for in 46-18-236, may pay the private person or entity a reasonable fee for collecting the judgment. The fee incurred by the court must be added to the judgment amount.
(3) If the judgment is for a fine alone, execution may issue on the judgment for any unpaid interest accrued on the judgment, costs, and fees in collecting the fine as on a judgment in a civil case.
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Clerk | The appropriate county, city, or town clerk; private person or entity. | All |
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Florida | Fla. Stat. §817.568(12)(c) | Criminal use of personal identification information |
(12) In addition to any sanction imposed when a person pleads guilty or nolo contendere to, or is found guilty of, regardless of adjudication, a violation of this section, the court shall impose a surcharge of $1,001.
(c) The clerk of the court shall retain $1 of each $1,001 surcharge that he or she collects as a service charge of the clerk’s office. |
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Florida | Fla. Stat. §34.045(1)(b) | Cost recovery; use of the county court for ordinance or special law violations |
No other filing fee may be assessed for filing the violation in county court. If a person contests the violation in court, the court shall assess $40 in costs against the nonprevailing party. The county or municipality shall be considered the prevailing party when there is a plea or finding of violation or guilt to any count or lesser included offense of the charge or companion case charges, regardless of adjudication. Costs recovered pursuant to this paragraph shall be deposited into the clerk’s fine and forfeiture fund established pursuant to s. 142.01.
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Florida | Fla. Stat. §142.01 | Fine and forfeiture fund; disposition of revenue; clerk of the circuit court |
(1)There shall be established by the clerk of the circuit court in each county of this state a separate fund to be known as the fine and forfeiture fund for use by the clerk of the circuit court in performing court-related functions. The fund shall consist of the following:
(a) Fines and penalties pursuant to ss. 28.2402(2), 34.045(2), 316.193, 327.35, 327.72, 379.2203(1), and 775.083(1). (b) That portion of civil penalties directed to this fund pursuant to s. 318.21. (c) Court costs pursuant to ss. 28.2402(1)(b), 34.045(1)(b), 318.14(10)(b), 318.18(11)(a), 327.73(9)(a) and (11)(a), and 938.05(3). (d) Proceeds from forfeited bail bonds, unclaimed bonds, unclaimed moneys, or recognizances pursuant to ss. 321.05(4)(a), 379.2203(1), and 903.26(3)(a). (e) Fines and forfeitures pursuant to s. 34.191. (f) Filing fees received pursuant to ss. 28.241 and 34.041, unless the disposition of such fees is otherwise required by law. (g) All other revenues received by the clerk as revenue authorized by law to be retained by the clerk. (2) Notwithstanding this section, all fines and forfeitures arising from operation of s. 318.1215 shall be disbursed in accordance with that section. |
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Florida | Fla. Stat. §775.083(1) | Fines |
A person who has been convicted of an offense other than a capital felony may be sentenced to pay a fine in addition to any punishment described in s. 775.082; when specifically authorized by statute, he or she may be sentenced to pay a fine in lieu of any punishment described in s. 775.082. A person who has been convicted of a noncriminal violation may be sentenced to pay a fine . . . Fines imposed in this subsection shall be deposited by the clerk of the court in the fine and forfeiture fund established pursuant to s. 142.01, except that the clerk shall remit fines imposed when adjudication is withheld to the Department of Revenue for deposit in the General Revenue Fund.
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Florida | Fla. Stat. §28.24 | Service charges |
The clerk of the circuit court shall charge for services rendered manually or electronically by the clerk’s office in recording documents and instruments and in performing other specified duties. |
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Nebraska | Neb. Rev. Stat. § 33-106(1)-(2) | Clerk of the district court; fees; enumerated |
(1) In addition to the judges’ retirement fund fee provided in section 24-703 and the fees provided in section 33-106.03 and except as otherwise provided by law, the fees of the clerk of the district court shall be as follows: There shall be a docket fee of forty-two dollars for each civil and criminal case except (a) a case commenced by filing a transcript of judgment as hereinafter provided, (b) proceedings under the Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Act and the Employment Security Law, when provision is made for the fees that may be charged, and (c) a criminal case appealed to the district court from any court inferior thereto as hereinafter provided. There shall be a docket fee of twenty-five dollars for each case commenced by filing a transcript of judgment from another court in this state for the purpose of obtaining a lien. There shall be a docket fee of twenty-seven dollars for each criminal case appealed to the district court from any court inferior thereto.
(2) In all cases, other than those appealed from an inferior court or original filings which are within jurisdictional limits of an inferior court and when a jury is demanded in district court, the docket fee shall cover all fees of the clerk, except that the clerk shall be paid for each copy or transcript ordered of any pleading, record, or other document and that the clerk shall be entitled to a fee of fifteen dollars for a records management fee which will be taxed as costs of the case. |
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Wyoming | Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 7-13-1616(e) | Surcharge to be assessed in certain criminal cases; paid to account |
The proceeds from the surcharge imposed by this section shall be remitted promptly by the clerk of the court to the department for deposit in the account. |
Clerk | N/A | All |
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Georgia | Ga. Code Ann. § 15-2-46 | Disposition of Costs |
The funds arising from costs in the Supreme Court shall be paid into the general funds of the state. |
General Fund | N/A | All |
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Georgia | Ga. Code Ann. § 15-21A-6.1(a);(b) | Judicial Operations Fund Fee; Collection and Reporting Procedure |
(a) In addition to all other legal costs, there shall be charged to the filing party and collected by the clerk an additional filing fee of $125.00, to be known as a judicial operations fund fee, in each civil action or case filed in a superior court except that the state, including, but not limited to, its departments, agencies, boards, bureaus, commissions, public corporations, and authorities, municipalities, counties, and political subdivisions shall be exempt from such fee. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such fee shall apply to all adoptions, certiorari, trade name registrations, applications for change of name, and all other proceedings of a civil nature. Any matter which is docketed upon the official dockets of the superior court and to which a number is assigned shall be subject to such fee, whether such matter is contested or not; provided, however, that the judicial operations fund fee shall not apply to the issuance of certificates of appointment and reappointment of notaries public; (b) Each superior court clerk shall collect the fees provided in this Code section and the moneys shall be paid over to the authority by the last day of the month after the month of collection, to be deposited by the authority into the general fund of the state treasury.
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General Fund | N/A | All |
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Georgia | Ga. Code Ann. § 15-21-74 | Assessment and Collection of Penalties; Transfer of Payments to Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority; Quarterly Accounting |
The sums provided for under paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of Code Section 15-21-73 shall be assessed and collected by the court officer charged with the duty of collecting moneys arising from fines and shall be paid over to the Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority by the last day of the month there following, to be deposited by the authority into the general treasury. The sums provided for under paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of Code Section 15-21-73 shall be assessed and collected by the court officer charged with the duty of collecting moneys arising from forfeited bonds and shall be paid over to the Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority by the last day of the month there following for remittance to the Office of the State Treasurer; provided, however, that if the local governing authority has an approved procedure to verify the applicant's income as set forth in Code Section 17-12-80, the court officer shall remit 50 percent of such funds to the Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority, and the remaining 50 percent shall be remitted to the local governing authority and reported to the Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority. The authority shall, on a quarterly basis, make a report and accounting of all funds collected and disbursed pursuant to this article and shall submit such report and accounting to the Office of Planning and Budget, the House Budget and Research Office, and the Senate Budget and Evaluation Office no later than 60 days after the last day of the preceding quarter.
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General Fund | N/A | All |
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Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209A, § 7 | Search of Domestic Violence Records; Outstanding Warrants; Service of Order, Complaint and Summons; Enforcement; Violations. |
Any violation of such order or a protection order issued by another jurisdiction shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than two and one–half years in a house of correction, or by both such fine and imprisonment. In addition to, but not in lieu of, the forgoing penalties and any other sentence, fee or assessment, including the victim witness assessment in section 8 of chapter 258B, the court shall order persons convicted of a crime under this statute to pay a fine of $25 that shall be transmitted to the treasurer for deposit into the General Fund.
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General Fund | N/A | All |
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Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209A, § 10 | Assessment Upon Assignment to Batterers’ Treatment Program. |
All funds collected by the court pursuant to this section shall be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer, who shall deposit said funds in the General Fund. |
General Fund | N/A | All |
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Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 276, § 87A | Participation in Rehabilitative Programs or Performance of Community Service Work. |
The court shall assess upon every person placed on supervised probation, including all persons placed on probation for offenses under section 24 of chapter 90, a monthly probation supervision fee, hereinafter referred to as “probation fee”, in the amount of $60 per month . . . Said probation fee shall be collected by the several probation offices of the trial court and shall be transmitted to the state treasurer for deposit into the General Fund of the commonwealth.
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General Fund | N/A | All |
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Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 280, § 6A | Special Cost Assessments. |
Before imposing a fine or forfeiture as a punishment or part punishment for a crime, the court or justice shall levy as a special cost assessment an amount equal to twenty–five per cent of the fine or forfeiture . . . Said cost assessment shall be accounted for by the clerk of the court and forwarded to the state treasurer who shall deposit such assessment in the General Fund.
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General Fund | N/A | All |
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Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 276, § 87A | Conditions of probation; probation fees |
Said probation fee shall be collected by the several probation offices of the trial court and transmitted to the state treasurer for deposit into the General Fund. |
General Fund | N/A | All |
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Minnesota | Minn. Stat. Ann. § 241.272(6) | Fee collection |
Use of fees. Excluding correctional fees collected from offenders supervised by department agents under the authority of section 244.19, subdivision 1, paragraph (a), clause (3), all correctional fees collected under this section go to the general fund. Fees collected by agents under the authority of section 244.19, subdivision 1, paragraph (a), clause (3), shall go to the county treasurer in the county where supervision is provided.
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Minnesota | Minn. Stat. Ann. § 357.08 | Paid by appellant in appeal |
There shall be paid to the clerk of the appellate courts by the appellant, or moving party or person requiring the service, in all cases of appeal, certiorari, habeas corpus, mandamus, injunction, prohibition, or other original proceeding, when initially filed with the clerk of the appellate courts, the sum of $550 to the clerk of the appellate courts. An additional filing fee of $100 shall be required for a petition for accelerated review by the Supreme Court. A filing fee of $550 shall be paid to the clerk of the appellate courts upon the filing of a petition for review from a decision of the Court of Appeals. A filing fee of $550 shall be paid to the clerk of the appellate courts upon the filing of a petition for permission to appeal. A filing fee of $100 shall be paid to the clerk of the appellate courts upon the filing by a respondent of a notice of review. The clerk shall transmit the fees to the commissioner of management and budget for deposit in the state treasury and credit to the general fund.
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General Fund | N/A | Felony |
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Minnesota | Minn. Stat. Ann. § 357.40 | Collections credited to general fund |
All fees received by any clerk of any such city under the provisions of section 357.39 shall be credited to the general fund of such city, and the amount of such fees shall not be considered within the cost of government as determined under the provisions of any charter of any such city of the first class.
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Applicable city general fund. |
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Minnesota | Minn. Stat. Ann. § 357.021(1a) | Court administrator of district court; fees |
Transmittal of fees to commissioner of management and budget. (a) Every person, including the state of Minnesota and all bodies politic and corporate, who shall transact any business in the district court, shall pay to the court administrator of said court the sundry fees prescribed in subdivision 2. Except as provided in paragraph (d), the court administrator shall transmit the fees monthly to the commissioner of management and budget for deposit in the state treasury and credit to the general fund.
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General Fund | N/A | All |
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