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	State	Statute	Description/Statute Name	Statutory language	Type of obligation	Actor
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New York	N.Y. City Crim. Ct. Act § 23	Fines paid to NY City Courts	All fines paid into and received by the court shall be paid over to the commissioner of finance . . . at which time the court shall cause a statement + See more or statements of fines received to be filed with the comptroller and the commissioner of finance of the city.	Obligation to report/conduct analysis	Municipal court
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New York	N.Y. Crim. Proc. Law § 420.30	Remittance of fine/fee - obligation to record	Any superior court which has imposed a fine, restitution or reparation for any offense may, in its discretion, on five days notice to the district attorney of the county in + See more which such fine, restitution or reparation was imposed and to each person otherwise required to be given notice of restitution or reparation pursuant to subdivision one of section 420.10, remit such fine, restitution or reparation or any portion thereof. In case of a fine, restitution or reparation imposed by a local criminal court for any offense, a superior court holding a term in the county in which the fine, restitution or reparation was imposed may, upon like notice, remit such fine, restitution or reparation or any portion thereof . . . If the court remits such restitution or reparation, or any part thereof, the reasons therefor shall be placed upon the record.	Obligation to collect or record	State courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New York	N.Y. Jud. Law §§ 790	Clerk to make schedule of fines imposed	Where a fine has been imposed by a court of record, upon a grand or trial juror, or upon any officer or other person, without being accompanied with an order + See more for the immediate commitment of the person so fined, until the fine is paid, the clerk of the court, immediately after the close of the term at which the fine was imposed, must prepare a schedule, containing, in separate columns, the following matters:1. The name of each person fined. 2. His place of residence, where it appears, from the papers on file or before the court, to be within the county. 3. The amount of the fine imposed upon him. 4. The cause for which the fine was imposed. The clerk must subjoin to the schedule a certificate, to the effect, that it contains a true abstract of the orders imposing fines, and must annex it to the warrant specified in the next section.	Obligation to collect or record	All courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	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 more by 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.	Obligation to collect or record	All courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	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
Add to Dashboard + Create New	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 more manner as a judgment for money rendered in a civil action.	Obligation to collect or record	All courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	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 more defendant in the same manner as a judgment for money rendered in a civil action.	Obligation to collect or record	All courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	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
Add to Dashboard + Create New	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 more entitled 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.	Obligation to collect or record	All courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	West Virginia	W. Va. Code § 59-1-4	Fees collected by Secretary of State, Auditor and Clerk of Supreme Court of Appeals to be paid into State Treasury; accounts; reports	Except as otherwise provided by law, the fees to be charged by the Auditor, Secretary of State and Clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals, by virtue of this article + See more or any other law, are the property of the State of West Virginia. The Auditor, Secretary of State and Clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals shall account for and pay into the State Treasury at least once every thirty days all fees collected or appearing to be due to the state, to the credit of the general state fund or other fund as provided by law. The Auditor, Secretary of State and Clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals shall each keep a complete and accurate itemized account of all fees collected by them and the nature of the services rendered for which all fees were charged and collected, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, as provided in article two [§§ 5A-2-1 et seq.], chapter five-a of this code. All accounts shall be open to inspection and audit as provided in article two [§§ 4-2-1 et seq.], chapter four of this code.	Obligation to collect or record	Clerk
Add to Dashboard + Create New	West Virginia	W. Va. Code § 59-1-19	Fee books of clerks	Every clerk of a court shall keep a fee book, wherein shall be entered the fees for every service performed by him, and the fact of such fees having been + See more paid, or of a bill having been made out therefor, whichever shall happen first. The fee books of a clerk shall be submitted to the inspection of commissioners appointed to examine the clerk’s office.	Obligation to collect or record	Clerk
Add to Dashboard + Create New	West Virginia	W. Va. Code § 59-1-25	Accounting for fees	Every sheriff or collector to whom such fee bills are so delivered shall, on or before the first day of July next after such delivery, account therefor with the officer + See more entitled thereto by returning such as he may not have collected, with the indorsement thereon of the words “No property found,” and by paying to such officer or his legal successor the amount of all not so returned. If he fail so to do, judgment may be obtained, on motion, against such sheriff or collector, and his sureties, and his and their personal representatives, for the amount with which such sheriff or collector is chargeable, and damages thereon, not exceeding fifteen per cent per annum, from said first day of July until payment. Such judgment may be on motion in the circuit court of the county in which such sheriff or collector resides, and if the fees be due to the Clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals, it may be in the circuit court of the county in which the seat of government may be. On such motion, any receipt for fees mentioned in the notice as signed by any person shall be deemed to be his signature unless an affidavit be filed denying it, and shall be prima facie evidence of the collection of all the fees mentioned therein, not returned as aforesaid.	Obligation to collect or record, Obligation to report/conduct analysis	Law enforcement
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	West Virginia	W. Va. Code § 51-4-2	Inspection of records and papers; copies	The records and papers of every court shall be open to the inspection of any person, and the clerk shall, when required, furnish copies thereof, except in cases where it + See more is otherwise specially provided.	Obligation to respond to public records requests	Clerk
Add to Dashboard + Create New	West Virginia	W. Va. Code § 59-1-38	W. Va. Code § 59-1-38	Any county officer, as described in section thirty-seven of this article, who receives a fee, cost, percentage, penalty, commission, allowance, bond, deposit, surety or other cash payment or sum shall + See more issue a receipt to the payor thereof, in duplicate, on a form approved by the chief inspector, in accordance with the provisions of article nine, chapter six of this code. The county officer shall issue the original of such receipt to the payor and shall retain the copy. The chief inspector shall prescribe the minimum information to be included on such receipt forms.	Obligation to collect or record	Clerk
Add to Dashboard + Create New	West Virginia	W. Va. Code § 50-3-7(a)	Records of magistrate court; reports	(a) Records of the judicial transactions of magistrate court shall be kept as required by the rules of the Supreme Court of Appeals. If, after judgment is rendered in a + See more matter, no appeal is filed within the time allotted, the records of the proceedings shall be forwarded to the magistrate court clerk. The records shall be maintained by the magistrate court clerk in accordance with the rules of the Supreme Court of Appeals. Records of the financial dealings of the magistrate court shall be kept as may be required by the rules of the State Auditor, who shall promulgate the rules only after consultation with the Supreme Court of Appeals. The magistrate court shall prepare and submit the reports as may be required by the rules of the Supreme Court of Appeals or by the State Auditor.	Obligation to collect or record	Clerk

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