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Arkansas | Ark. Code Ann. § 16-96-401(f)(1) | Collection and Payment |
At the commencement of each session of the circuit court of the clerk's county, the clerk of the county court shall furnish the prosecuting attorney with a written statement of all deficits of constables and other collecting officers on account of fines, penalties, and forfeitures.
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Obligation to report/conduct analysis | Clerk |
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Arkansas | Ark. Code Ann. § 16-96-401(f)(2) | Collection and Payment |
It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney to bring suit against the constables and collecting officers and their securities for the deficiency due and also to prosecute the officers by indictment for malfeasance in office.
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Arkansas | Ark. Code Ann. § 16-20-106(c)(1) | Fines, Penalties, Taxes, Etc. -- Collection and Settlement -- Accounting -- Audit and Adjustment |
The clerks shall keep a true account of all fines, penalties, forfeitures, and judgments imposed, adjudged, or rendered in favor of the state or any county by their respective courts, distinguishing those payable to the state from those payable to the county.
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Obligation to collect or record | Clerk |
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Arkansas | Ark. Code Ann. § 14-14-110(a) | Public Records |
Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, all records and other written materials in the possession of a local government shall be available for inspection and copying by any person during normal office hours.
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Obligation to respond to public records requests | All |
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Michigan | 600.4845(1) | Money from fines and penalties |
The county treasurer shall credit all fines for the violation of the penal laws to the library fund and all other penalties to the general fund; and he shall account + See moretherefor to the board of supervisors annually.
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Obligation to report/conduct analysis | County |
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Michigan | Mich. Comp. Laws § 769.1k(8) | Imposition of fine, cost, or assessment; availability of information to defendant; reports; nonpayment of costs. |
If the court imposes any cost under subsection (1)(b)(iii), no later than March 31 of each year the clerk of the court shall transmit a report to the state court + See moreadministrative office in a manner prescribed by the state court administrative office that contains all of the following information for the previous calendar year:
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Obligation to report/conduct analysis | All courts |
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Michigan | Mich. Comp. Laws § 769.1a(16) | Order of restitution |
If a defendant who is ordered to pay restitution under this section is remanded to the jurisdiction of the department of corrections, the court shall provide a copy of the + See moreorder of restitution to the department of corrections when the defendant is ordered remanded to the department's jurisdiction.
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Obligation to collect or record | All courts |
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Michigan | Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1211(3) | Admission to veteran's treatment court |
Each veterans treatment court shall report quarterly to the state court administrative office on the funds received and expended by that veterans treatment court in a manner prescribed by the + See morestate court administrative office.
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Obligation to collect or record | Other |
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Michigan | Mich. Comp. Laws § 780.830a(2) | Deductions and payments | The sheriff shall notify the defendant and the court in writing of all deductions and payments made under this section | Obligation to collect or record | County |
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Michigan | Mich. Comp. Laws § 780.796b(4) | Deductions and payments - juveniles |
he department of corrections, sheriff, department of human services, or county juvenile agency, as applicable, shall notify the juvenile and the court in writing of all deductions and payments made + See moreunder this section.
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Obligation to collect or record | Other |
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Rhode Island | R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-21-15 | Access of city or town treasurer to district court records |
The city or town treasurer of any city or town in the division in which the district court is situated shall have access at all times to all books and papers in the office of the division, and may examine them for the purpose of verifying the returns of the clerk.
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Rhode Island | R.I. Gen.Laws. Ann. § 8-15-9.3(a) | Public inspection of court payments owed |
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director of the finance section on a quarterly basis shall prepare a list of the persons who owe court imposed or court related fees, fines, court costs, assessments, charges and/or any other monetary obligations due and owing to the state which have been unpaid for a period in excess of ninety (90) days from the date that any such amounts were due and are not the subject of a court-ordered payment plan in good standing. (The above fees are hereinafter referred to as Overdue Court Fees.) The list shall contain the name and city or town and state of each person who owes Overdue Court Fees as of the end of the quarter, together with the total amount owed, and the date of disposition. No person owing Overdue Court Fees shall be included on such list if the underlying matter in which Overdue Court Fees were imposed, or the amount of the fees, is the subject of an appeal.
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Obligation to report/conduct analysis | State courts |
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Rhode Island | R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-21-11 | Quarterly reports and payment by district court |
The clerk of each division of the district court, shall, between the first and fifteenth days of February, May, August, and November in each year, make an itemized return in writing to the city or town treasurer of every city or town in the division of all fines received by the clerk during the preceding quarter, which or part of which shall be due to the city or town, and of costs paid by the clerk out of money belonging to the city or town, and the amount and circumstances of all of these fines received by the clerk and costs paid by the clerk and not included in any previous return. The clerk making the return shall immediately thereafter cause to be paid to the city or town treasurer the balance of all moneys belonging to the city or town.
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Obligation to report/conduct analysis | State courts |
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Rhode Island | R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 8-15-11(b) | Electronic filing and online payments |
The collection of technology surcharges shall be monitored and supervised by the judiciary's director of finance and shall be deposited into a restricted receipt account designated as Rhode Island judiciary technology surcharge account, the proceeds of which shall be solely for use by the judiciary in support of its technology infrastructure and case management system. On or before January 15, 2015, and annually thereafter on or before January 15, the judiciary's director of finance shall file a report with the governor, the speaker of the house, and the president of the senate detailing: (1) The total amount of funds collected and deposited into the judiciary technology surcharge account for the most recently completed fiscal year; (2) The fund balance as of the date of the report; (3) An itemization of all expenditures and other uses of said funds from said account for the most recently completed fiscal year; and (4) An annual evaluation as to the appropriateness of the amount of the technology surcharge or fee.
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Obligation to collect or record | State courts |