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	State	Statute	Description/Statute Name	Statutory language	Type of obligation	Actor
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Utah	Utah Code Ann. § 41-3-704	Penalty waiver	Upon making a record of its actions, and upon reasonable cause shown, the commission may waive, reduce, or compromise any of the civil penalties imposed by the division under this + See more chapter.	Obligation to collect or record	Traffic court
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Jersey	N.J. Stat. Ann. § 39:5-44	Record of fines payable to county; inspection	Every court having jurisdiction to hear complaints for violations of the provisions of this Title shall keep a record of the disposition of all complaints under this subtitle, for which + See more a fine may be imposed which record shall be open to inspection by the treasurer or auditor of a county or his duly authorized representative, or by the director or his duly authorized representative, or by the financial officers of the respective municipalities which are entitled to fines imposed by the court.	Obligation to collect or record	All
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Virginia	Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-483.	Return of officer on fieri facias; statement filed therewith	Upon a writ of fieri facias, the officer shall return whether the money therein mentioned has been or cannot be made. If there is only part thereof which is or + See more cannot be made, he shall return the amount of such part. With every execution under which money is recovered, he shall return a statement of the amount received, including his fees and other charges, and shall pay such amount, except such fees and charges, to the person entitled. In his return upon every execution, the officer shall also state in what manner a copy of the writ was served in accordance with § 8.01-487.1, whether or not he made a levy of the same, the date and time of such levy, the date when he received such payment or obtained such satisfaction upon such execution and, if there is more than one defendant, from which defendant he received the same.	Obligation to collect or record	All
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Connecticut	Conn. Gen. Stat. § 4-32	State revenue accounting.	Each state department, institution, board, commission or other state agency and each official and employee thereof, including the clerks of the Superior Court, receiving any money or revenue for the + See more state, shall, within twenty-four hours of its receipt, account for and, if the total of the sums received amounts to five hundred dollars or more, pay the same to the Treasurer or deposit the same in the name of the state in depositories designated by the Treasurer under such regulations as the Treasurer prescribes. Total daily receipts of less than five hundred dollars may be held until the total receipts to date amount to five hundred dollars, but not for a period of more than seven calendar days. The Treasurer is authorized to make exceptions to the limitations herein prescribed upon written application from the head of any state department, institution, board, commission or other state agency stating that compliance would be impracticable and giving the reasons therefor. The Treasurer shall make a written statement of any such exception and shall file copies thereof with the Comptroller and the Auditors of Public Accounts.	Obligation to collect or record	All
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Montana	Mont. Code Ann. § 2-6-1502	Protection of personal information--compliance--extensions	Each state agency that maintains the personal information of an individual shall develop procedures to protect the personal information while enabling the state agency to use the personal information as + See more necessary for the performance of its duties under federal or state law. The procedures must include measures to: (a) eliminate the unnecessary use of personal information; (b) identify the person or state agency authorized to have access to personal information; (c) restrict access to personal information by unauthorized persons or state agencies; (d) identify circumstances in which redaction of personal information is appropriate; (e) dispose of documents that contain personal information in a manner consistent with other record retention requirements applicable to the state agency; (f) eliminate the unnecessary storage of personal information on portable devices; and (g) protect data containing personal information if that data is on a portable device.	Obligation to collect or record	All
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Tennessee	Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-10-306	Records and Recordation	Every magistrate or judge of a court shall keep or cause to be kept a record of every traffic complaint, warrant, traffic citation or other legal form of traffic charge + See more deposited with or presented to the court or the traffic violations bureau of its jurisdiction, and shall keep a record of every official action by the court or the traffic violations bureau of its jurisdiction in reference thereto, including, but not limited to, a record of every conviction, forfeiture of bail, judgment of acquittal and the amount of fine or forfeiture resulting from every traffic complaint, warrant, or citation deposited with or presented to the court or traffic violations bureau.(b)(1) Except as provided by § 55-50-409, within thirty (30) days after the conviction or forfeiture of bail of a person upon a charge of violating any provision of chapter 8, parts 1-5 of this chapter and § 55-12-139 or other law regulating the operation of vehicles on highways, every such magistrate or judge of the court or clerk of the court of record in which the conviction was had or bail was forfeited shall prepare and immediately forward to the department an abstract of the record of the court covering the case in which the person was so convicted or forfeited bail, which abstract must be certified by the person so required to prepare the same to be true and correct. Report need not be made of any conviction involving the illegal parking or standing of a vehicle	Obligation to collect or record	Traffic court
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Arizona	Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 28-1559(A)	Traffic case records; abstract of record; reports	Each magistrate, judge or hearing officer of a court shall: 1. Keep or cause to be kept a record of each traffic complaint or other legal form of traffic charge deposited + See more with or presented to the court or its traffic violations bureau. 2. Keep a record of each official action by the court or its traffic violations bureau in reference to each traffic complaint or other legal form of traffic charge deposited with or presented to the court or its traffic violations bureau, including but not limited to a record of: (a) Each conviction, forfeiture of bail or deposit, judgment of acquittal or civil adjudication. (b) The amount of the civil penalty, fine or forfeiture resulting from each traffic complaint deposited with or presented to the court or traffic violations bureau.	Obligation to collect or record	Traffic court
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Hawaii	Haw. Rev. Stat. § 601-3.6(d)	Spouse and child abuse special account; judiciary	(d) The judiciary, in coordination with the department of health, shall submit an annual report to the legislature, prior to the convening of each regular session, providing an accounting of + See more the receipts of and expenditures from the account.	Obligation to collect or record	Court
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Iowa	Iowa Code § 602.8107(7)	Collection of court debt	7. Reports. The judicial branch shall prepare a report aging the court debt. The report shall include the amounts collected by the private collection designee, the distribution of these amounts, and + See more the amount of the fee collected by the private collection designee. In addition, the report shall include the amounts written off pursuant to subsection 6. The judicial branch shall provide the report to the co-chairpersons and ranking members of the joint appropriations subcommittee on the justice system, the legislative services agency, and the department of management by December 15 of each year.	Obligation to collect or record	Court
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Maine	Me. Rev. Stat. tit 4 §565	Examination and correction of records	The Chief Justice of the Superior Court may cause the records of each clerk to be examined and when found deficient, direct them to be immediately made or corrected . + See more . .	Obligation to collect or record	Court
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Minnesota	Minn. Stat. Ann. § 484.841(b)	Disposition of fines, fees, and other money; accounts; Hennepin County District Court	The court administrator shall identify the name of the municipality or other subdivision of government where the offense was committed and the total amount of fines or penalties collected for + See more each municipality or other subdivision of government, for the county, or for the state.	Obligation to collect or record	Court
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Minnesota	Minn. Stat. Ann. § 485.07	District Court Adminstrators:Records to be kept	Every court administrator shall procure and keep the following records at the expense of the county: (2) a judgment roll, for each judgment rendered; (3) a docket, in which the + See more court administrator enters alphabetically the name of each judgment debtor, the amount of the judgment, and the precise time of its entry;	Obligation to collect or record	Court
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Mexico	N.M. Stat. Ann. § 34-6-26	Operation; record; authentication	The district court of each county shall keep a record containing orders entered by the court. Orders made orally by the court shall be entered upon the record by the + See more district court clerk. The district judge shall review and sign the record following each term of the court, but if, for any cause, the district judge fails to sign the record, the district court clerk may certify the record as authentic.	Obligation to collect or record	Court
Add to Dashboard + Create New	South Dakota	S.D. Codified Laws § 216-2-28	Accounting system for funds	The Supreme Court shall by rule provide for an accounting system for the receipting, holding, and disbursement of fines, fees, costs, forfeitures, restitution, bonds, trust funds, support and alimony payments, + See more penalties, assessments, and other funds established by law	Obligation to collect or record	Court
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Texas	Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 4 § 740	Court records; dockets; certified copies	The Supreme Court by administrative order or directive shall provide for the preparation, maintenance, recording, indexing, docketing, preservation, and storage of all court records and the provision, subject to confidentiality + See more requirements of law or court rules, of certified copies of those records to persons requesting them.	Obligation to collect or record	Court
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Washington	Wash. CrRLJ 7.2	JUDGMENT	A judgment of conviction shall set forth whether the defendant was represented by a lawyer or waived representation by a lawyer, the plea, the verdict or findings, and the adjudication + See more and sentence. The court may order that its sentence include special conditions or requirements, including a specified schedule for the payment of a fine, restitution, or other costs, or the performance of community service. If the defendant is found not guilty or for any other reason is entitled to be discharged, judgment shall be entered accordingly. The judge or clerk shall enter the judgment on the record. The judgment and record of the sentencing proceedings of the courts of limited jurisdiction shall be preserved in perpetuity, either in an electronic or hard copy format. “Hard copy format” may include microfilm, microfiche, or a paper copy. At a minimum, the judgment and record of the sentencing proceedings shall include: (i) Verdict or findings, and the date entered; (j) Adjudication and sentence, and the date entered; (k) Conditions or requirements of the sentence, including but not limited to a specified schedule for the payment of a fine, restitution, or other costs, performance of community service, counseling or treatment;	Obligation to collect or record	Clerk, Court
Add to Dashboard + Create New	West Virginia	W. Va. Code § 59-1-30	Books of account to be kept by officers	Each of the officers named in the preceding section [§ 59-1-29] shall keep full and regular accounts, subject at all times to the examination of the county court [county commission], or + See more tribunal in lieu thereof, the State Tax Commissioner or any individual, of all sums charged or collected by such officers on account of official fees, costs, percentages, penalties, commissions, allowances, compensation, income and all other perquisites of whatever kind, and such book of accounts shall be a part of the records of the respective offices herein named belonging to the county, and shall be transmitted by each county officer to his successor in office. The system of books and accounts to be kept by the officers herein named shall be prescribed by the State Tax Commissioner, ex officio inspector and supervisor of public offices.	Obligation to collect or record	All
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Wyoming	Wyo. R. Crim. P. 32(c)(2)	Judgment and Sentence	(c) Sentence. (2) Contents. A written sentence shall be signed by the judge and entered by the clerk of court without delay. The sentence may be included in the judgment + See more or separately entered. Except for forfeit offenses for which citations have issued, other misdemeanors where the penalty imposed does not exceed a fine of $200.00, and pleas entered under Rule 43(c)(2), as a minimum the sentence shall: (A) State each offense for which sentence is imposed, including the statute number and whether the offense is a felony or a misdemeanor; (B) State the sentence imposed for each convicted offense including for felonies the minimum and maximum term and state whether multiple sentences are to run concurrently or consecutively; (G) Include an assessment for the victims of crime compensation fund as required by W.S. 1-40-119; and (H) Include a finding as to whether the defendant is able to make restitution and if restitution is ordered fix the reasonable amount owed to each victim resulting from the defendant's criminal acts.	Obligation to collect or record	Clerk, Court

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