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Missouri | Mo. Ann. Stat. § 559.231 | Board of probation - records |
It shall be the duty of said board to keep a record of persons paroled and, as far as possible, of their whereabouts, occupation and conduct, and a record of the final discharge of such persons upon parole, or the revocation of any parole and the reasons therefor.
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Obligation to collect or record | Supervision agency |
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Missouri | Mo. Ann. Stat. § 476.010 | Courts of record |
The supreme court of the state of Missouri, the court of appeals, and the circuit courts shall be courts of record, and shall keep just and faithful records of their proceedings. Notwithstanding the foregoing, municipal divisions of the circuit courts shall not be considered courts of record, regardless of whether or not a verbatim record of proceedings before the division is kept.
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Obligation to collect or record | State courts |
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Missouri | Mo. Ann. Stat. § 476.260 | Court to audit accounts |
The court shall audit and adjust the accounts of the sheriff or other officer attending it, and certify the same for payment. |
Obligation to report/conduct analysis | State courts |
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Missouri | Mo. Ann. Stat. § 476.412 | Reports, statistical information on caseload, filed with supreme court, when--contents |
In addition to any other report required by law or court rule, or in conjunction with such report, each presiding judge of a judicial circuit and the chief judge of each district of the court of appeals shall file an annual report by September first of each year or such other date as directed by the supreme court. The report shall be in the form prescribed by the state courts administrator and shall provide statistical information, where applicable, on the performance of the reporting court and each judge of the reporting court in relation to caseload handled by the court during the period between reports, the rate of disposition of cases, the average duration of cases until final disposition, the number of cases requiring trial, the number of cases disposed of by settlement, the average time between filing of a case and final disposition and the average projected time between filing of a case and final disposition. Such statistical information shall be particularized according to type of case, including but not limited to personal injury, contract, domestic relations, equity, juvenile, felonies and misdemeanors. The report made by the presiding judge of each circuit shall also include the number and type of circuit division cases handled by associate circuit judges and the number and type of such cases handled by senior judges, if any, assigned to the circuit. Each report shall also include an analysis by the reporting judge on the success of the court in handling its caseload, procedures adopted by the court to handle caseload, projected ability of the court under existing conditions to handle projected future caseload, any needs of the court for additional judges, additional court personnel, space, facilities, and equipment and necessary or desired changes in court rules or procedures or in state law. In connection with any recommendation for additional judges, the report shall specify in detail the conditions requiring additional judges and whether the needs of the court could be satisfied by the appointment of senior judges as provided in section 476.681, or by assignment of judges from other circuits, how many such judges would be required, for what periods of time, and the type of cases proposed to be handled.
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Obligation to report/conduct analysis | State courts |
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Missouri | Mo. Ann. Stat. § 479.080(3) | Fines and costs, where paid, deposited--supreme court may provide for uniform procedure Currentness |
The supreme court by administrative rule may provide for uniform procedure, and reporting forms for the collection and transmittal of fines and costs. Until modified or otherwise provided by such administrative rule, the municipal judge, or associate circuit judge hearing and determining violations of municipal ordinances, shall cause the clerk serving his division, within the first ten days of every month, to make out a list of all the cases heard or tried before the judge during the preceding month, giving in each case the name of the defendant, the fine imposed, if any, the amount of costs, the names of defendants committed and the cases in which there was an application for trial de novo, respectively. Such clerk or the judge shall verify such lists and statements by affidavit, and file the same forthwith with the clerk of the municipality, who shall lay the same before the governing body or the municipality at its first session thereafter.
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Obligation to collect or record | Clerk |
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Missouri | Mo. Ann. Stat. § 483.55(3) | Clerks to charge, collect court costs, when |
In divisions presided over by associate circuit judges for which the circuit clerk is not responsible for collecting court costs as hereinabove provided, the associate circuit judge shall designate by order entered of record a division clerk who shall be responsible for the collection of all court costs with respect to cases in the division; or if there be a centralized filing and docketing system for two or more divisions presided over by an associate circuit judge, then a division clerk or clerks shall be designated in accordance with the provisions of local circuit court rule by an order which shall be entered of record, and if there be no such rule adopted, then a majority of the associate circuit judges being served shall designate a division clerk or clerks who shall be responsible for the collection of all court costs with respect to cases in the divisions served by the centralized filing and docketing system.
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Obligation to collect or record | Clerk |
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Missouri | Mo. Ann. Stat. § 483.55(5) | Clerks to charge, collect court costs, when |
The responsible clerks shall make periodic reports of delinquent court costs which are due at such times and in such form as may be required by the state courts administrator. |
Obligation to collect or record | Clerk |
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Missouri | Mo. Ann. Stat. § 550.26(1),(3) | Criminal court cost bills, certification for payment |
1. All criminal court cost bills shall be certified for payment as herein provided, and in addition thereto the circuit clerks of each county shall make copies of all original criminal court cost bills certified to the director of the department of corrections for payment, and shall file the same with the treasurers of their respective counties, and the city of St. Louis, at the time of transmitting the original for payment.
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Obligation to collect or record | Clerk, Other |
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Missouri | Payment of fees--deductions | Mo. Ann. Stat. § 550.27 |
The county treasurers shall pay out all such fees to the proper owners as the same may be called for; provided, that before any such fees shall be paid the party to whom the same is due shall furnish satisfactory evidence to the treasurer that he or she, as the case may be, is not at the time indebted to the state or county, on account of delinquent back taxes, or is indebted to the state or county on account of any fine, penalty, forfeitures or forfeited recognizances or costs for a violation of any criminal statute of this state, or for contempt of any court, no matter if the same shall have been paid by oath of insolvency as provided by law; or is indebted to the state or any county on account of any funds coming to his hands by reason of any public office; provided further, that after deducting the amount of the indebtedness of the claimant, if any, on account of any or all of the various causes herein enumerated, the treasurer shall pay him the balance, giving duplicate receipts for the separate amounts paid, one of which shall be filed with the county clerk, who shall charge the treasurer with the same, but if the indebtedness of the claimant equals or exceeds the amount of his fees, the treasurer shall give him credit for the amount of his fees, stating on what account, and shall make duplicate receipts for the same, one of which he shall deliver to the claimant and the other he shall file with the county clerk, who shall charge the treasurer with all such receipts, and in his regular settlements with the county commission the treasurer shall make a full and complete exhibit of all his acts and doings under sections 550.260 to 550.300.
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Obligation to collect or record | Other |
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North Dakota | N.D. Cent. Code § 29-26-22.1 | Judgment for fine or costs in criminal cases ‑ Docketing and enforcement |
The court may, within ten years of the date of entry of a judgment that imposes a fine or assesses costs against a defendant, order the judgment to be docketed + See moreby the clerk of court in the judgment docket maintained pursuant to section 28-20-13 in the same manner in which a civil judgment for money is docketed. The docketing of the judgment has the same effect as the docketing of a civil judgment. The docketed judgment may be docketed in any other county in the same manner, it imposes a lien upon the real property owned by the defendant to the same extent, it is subject to the same statute of limitations, and it is enforceable by execution in the same manner as provided for a civil judgment for money.
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Obligation to collect or record | All courts |
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North Dakota | N.D. Cent. Code § 27-05.2-06 | Records maintenance and disposal | A clerk of district court shall maintain and dispose of court records in accordance with rules, policies, and procedures adopted by the supreme court. | Obligation to collect or record | All courts |
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North Dakota | N.D. Cent. Code § 29-26-22(4) | Judgment for fines--Court administration fee--Community service supervision fee--Special funds--Docketing and enforcement |
A judgment that the defendant pay a fine or fees, or both, may be docketed and if docketed constitutes a lien upon the real estate of the defendant in like + See moremanner as a judgment for money rendered in a civil action.
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Obligation to collect or record | All courts |
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North Dakota | N.D. Cent. Code § 12.1-32-02.2(4) | Repayment of rewards paid by crimestoppers programs--Duties of attorney general--Qualified local programs--Disbursement of moneys collected |
A judgment that includes a repayment of reward, either alone or in conjunction with section 29-26-22, may be docketed and thereafter constitutes a lien upon the real estate of the + See moredefendant in the same manner as a judgment for money rendered in a civil action.
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Obligation to collect or record | All courts |
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North Dakota | N.D. Cent. Code § 12.1-32-07(2) | Supervision of probationer--Conditions of probation--Revocation | The order may be filed, transcribed, and enforced by the department of corrections and rehabilitation in the same manner as civil judgments rendered by a district court of this state. | Obligation to collect or record | All courts |
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North Dakota | N.D. Cent. Code § 12.1-32-08(1) | Hearing prior to ordering restitution, reparation, or reimbursement of indigent defense costs and expenses--Conditions--Collection of restitution for insufficient funds checks--Continuing appropriation |
An order that a defendant make restitution or reparation as a sentence or condition of probation may, unless the court directs otherwise, be filed, transcribed, and enforced by the person + See moreentitled to the restitution or reparation or by the division of adult services in the same manner as civil judgments rendered by the courts of this state may be enforced.
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Obligation to collect or record | All courts |
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 103.010 | Receipt book |
(a) Each county shall provide a receipt book to each officer collecting fines and fees in criminal cases for the county. The book must contain duplicate official receipts. Each receipt must bear a distinct number and a facsimile of the official seal of the county.
(b) An officer who collects fines or fees in a criminal case shall give the person paying the money a receipt from the receipt book. The receipt must show: (1) the amount of money paid;(2) the date the money was paid;(3) the style and number of the case in which the costs were accrued;(4) the item of costs; (5) the name of the person paying the money; and (6) the official signature of the officer receiving the money. (c) Instead of a receipt book, each officer collecting fines or fees in criminal cases for the county may maintain the information listed in Subsections (b)(1)-(5) in a computer database.The officer shall provide a receipt to each person paying a fine or fee. |
Obligation to collect or record | Clerk, County, Law enforcement |
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Texas | Tex. Loc. Gov't Code Sec. 133.054 | General record of fees collected - officer/clerk |
(a) An officer or clerk collecting a fee shall keep a record of the money collected. (b) The treasurer shall keep a record of the money collected and on deposit in the treasury.
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Obligation to collect or record | Clerk, Law enforcement |
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 103.009(a)(c) | Fee Records |
(a) Each clerk of a court, county judge, justice of the peace, sheriff, constable, and marshal shall keep a fee record. The record must contain: (1) a statement of each fee or item of cost charged for a service rendered in a criminal action or proceeding;(2) the number and style of the action or proceeding; and (3) the name of the officer or person who is entitled to receive the fee.
(b) Any person may inspect a fee record described by Subsection (a). (c) A statement of an item of cost in a fee record is prima facie evidence of the correctness of the statement. (d) The county shall provide to officers required to keep a fee record by this article equipment and supplies necessary to keep the record. |
Obligation to collect or record, Obligation to report/conduct analysis, Obligation to respond to public records requests | Clerk, State courts |
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 102.0185(d)-(e)(1) | Fine for Intoxication Convictions: Emergency Medical Services, Trauma Facilities, and Trauma Care Systems |
(d) The officer collecting the fines under this article shall keep separate records of the money collected and shall pay the money to the custodian of the municipal or county treasury. (e) The custodian of the municipal or county treasury shall: (1) keep records of the amount of money collected under this article that is deposited with the treasury under this article
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Obligation to collect or record | County, Municipality/municipal agency |
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Texas | Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 102.0178(c)-(d),(f),(h) | Costs Attendant to Certain Intoxication and Drug Convictions |
(c) Court costs under this article are collected in the same manner as other fines or costs. An officer collecting the costs shall keep separate records of the funds collected as costs under this article and shall deposit the funds in the county treasury, as appropriate.
(d) The custodian of a county treasury shall: (1) keep records of the amount of funds on deposit collected under this article; and (2) except as provided by Subsection (e), send to the comptroller before the last day of the first month following each calendar quarter the funds collected under this article during the preceding quarter. (f) If no funds due as costs under this article are deposited in a county treasury in a calendar quarter, the custodian of the treasury shall file the report required for the quarter in the regular manner and must state that no funds were collected. (h) Funds collected under this article are subject to audit by the comptroller. |
Obligation to collect or record, Obligation to report/conduct analysis | County |