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Kansas | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 21-5821 | Crimes Involving Property: Giving a worthless check |
In addition to all other costs and fees allowed by law, each prosecutor who takes any action under the provisions of this section may collect from the issuer in such + See moreaction an administrative handling cost, except in cases filed in a court of appropriate jurisdiction. The cost shall not exceed $10 for each check. If the issuer of the check is convicted in a district court, the administrative handling costs may be assessed as part of the court costs in the matter. The moneys collected pursuant to this subsection shall be deposited into a trust fund which shall be administered by the board of county commissioners. The funds shall be expended only with the approval of the board of county commissioners, but may be used to help fund the normal operating expenses of the county or district attorney's office.
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Obligation to collect or record | Prosecutor, State/statewide agency |
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Kansas | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 22-4529 | Entitlement of defendant to counsel; application fee; disposition of moneys |
Any defendant entitled to counsel pursuant to Kan. Stat. Ann. § 22-4503, and amendments thereto, shall pay an application fee in the amount of $100 to the clerk of the + See moredistrict court. Any defendant entitled to counsel in a proceeding for a violation of a condition of release pursuant to Kan. Stat. Ann. § 22-3716, and amendments thereto, shall pay an application fee of $100 to the clerk of the district court. Such fee shall be paid regardless of whether the defendant has paid application fees pursuant to this section in any other proceeding. If it appears to the satisfaction of the court that payment of the application fee will impose manifest hardship on the defendant, the court may waive payment of all or part of the application fee. All moneys received pursuant to this section shall be remitted to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the indigents' defense services fund. If the defendant is acquitted or the case is dismissed, any application fee paid pursuant to this section shall be remitted to the defendant.
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Obligation to collect or record | Clerk, State/statewide agency |
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Kansas | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 45-411 | Judicial records; supreme court rules |
The state records board shall have no control over the disposition of judicial records. The supreme court shall make appropriate rules regarding the preservation or disposition of state judicial + See morerecords, including appellate, district and other courts.
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Obligation to collect or record | All courts, State courts |
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Kansas | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 8-2115 | Records of traffic cases; transmittal of abstracts to division; form; effect of noncompliance; public inspection of records; notice of final disposition of appeals |
(a) Every municipal judge or judge of a court not of record and every clerk of a court of record shall keep a full record of every case in which + See morea person is charged with any violation of this act or of any other law regulating the operation of vehicles on highways or for the violation of an ordinance of any city defining any offense the provisions of which are identical with provisions of this act, or fixing a limitation upon the speed of vehicles pursuant to the provisions of this act. (b) Within 10 days after the conviction or forfeiture of bail or an appearance bond of a person upon a charge of violating any provisions of this act or other law or city ordinance regulating the operation of vehicles on highways, every judge or clerk of the court in which such conviction was had or bail or bond was forfeited shall prepare and immediately electronically forward to the division an abstract of the record of the court covering the case in which such person was so convicted or forfeited bail or bond. The abstract shall be forwarded in an electronic format approved by the division...(e) The division shall electronically file all abstracts received hereunder at its main office and the same shall be open to public inspection during reasonable business hours.
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Obligation to collect or record | All courts, Clerk |
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Kansas | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 21-6612(d) | Criteria for imposing fines | If a fine is ordered pursuant to subsection (b), the court's findings regarding the requirements of subsections (b) and (c) shall be stated on the record. | Obligation to collect or record | All courts |
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Kansas | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 19-625 | Reports of county officers |
The county treasurer, county clerk, sheriff, register of deeds and every other officer collecting any money for the county shall prepare and file with the county auditor monthly, a sworn + See morestatement of all fees, fines and other moneys collected by such officer belonging to such county. The auditor shall examine the books of all such officers and shall compare such sworn statements with the books in the possession of the auditor and with the auditor's ledger account and report the examination to the board of county commissioners.
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Obligation to collect or record | County |
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Kansas | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 12-4510 | Code for Municipal Courts; Trials and Proceedings Incident Thereto: Same; imprisonment; fine |
When a sentence of imprisonment is pronounced, the municipal judge or the clerk of the municipal court shall prepare and deliver to the chief of police a copy of the + See moreentry of judgment, duly certified by such judge or clerk, which shall be sufficient authority to such chief of police to execute the sentence and confine the accused person to jail for the time specified, or until further order of the court.
When a fine is levied as punishment, the municipal judge or clerk of the municipal court shall issue a statement setting forth the amount of the fine and the manner of payment. Failure to pay in the manner specified may constitute contempt of court.
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Obligation to collect or record | Municipal court |
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Kansas | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 45-218 | nspection of records; request; response; refusal, when; fees |
All public records shall be open for inspection by any person, except as otherwise provided by this act, and suitable facilities shall be made available by each public agency for this purpose. No + See moreperson shall removal [remove] original copies of public records from the office of any public agency without the written permission of the custodian of the record.
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Obligation to respond to public records requests | All |
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 17.1-283. | Statements required of clerks of courts of record. |
A. Every clerk of a court of record, except the Clerks of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals, shall file monthly with the Compensation Board a full and + See moreaccurate statement showing all such fees, allowances, commissions, salaries or other compensation or emolument of office, derived from the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof, or from any other source whatever, collected or received by him. The statements shall include the date of collection and sources from which the collections were made, and shall be verified by a procedure agreed upon by the Compensation Board and the Auditor of Public Accounts. The statements shall be open to public inspection at all times.
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Obligation to collect or record | All courts |
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-349(A) | clerks' reporting requirements |
A. The clerk of the circuit court and district court of every county and city shall submit to the judge of his court, the Department of Taxation, the State Compensation + See moreBoard and the attorney for the Commonwealth of his county or city a monthly report of all fines, costs, forfeitures and penalties which are delinquent more than 30 days, including court-ordered restitution of a sum certain, imposed in his court for a violation of state law or a local ordinance which remain unsatisfied, including those which are delinquent in installment payments. The monthly report shall include the social security number or driver's license number of the defendant, if known, and such other information as the Department of Taxation and the Compensation Board deem appropriate. The Executive Secretary shall make the report required by this subsection on behalf of those clerks who participate in the Supreme Court's automated information system.
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Obligation to collect or record | All courts |
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-349(C) | Department of Taxation reporting requirements |
The Department of Taxation and the State Compensation Board shall annually report to the Governor and the General Assembly the total of fines, costs, forfeitures and penalties assessed, collected, and + See moreunpaid and those which remain unsatisfied or do not meet the conditions of § 19.2-354 by each circuit and district court. The report shall include the procedures established by the Department of Taxation and the State Compensation Board pursuant to this section and a plan for increasing the collection of unpaid fines, costs, forfeitures and penalties. The Auditor of Public Accounts shall annually report to the Governor, the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court and the General Assembly as to the adherence of clerks of courts, attorneys for the Commonwealth and other state agencies to the procedures established by the Department of Taxation and the State Compensation Board.
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Obligation to report/conduct analysis | State/statewide agency |
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-360 | clerk record of disposition |
The Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court shall prescribe and prepare forms of official receipts for fines and distribute them to the clerks of the circuit courts and to the + See moreclerks of the district courts for their use. A record of the disposition of each receipt form shall be maintained as prescribed by the Executive Secretary.
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Obligation to collect or record | All courts |
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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 morecannot 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.
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Virginia | Va. Code Ann § 9.1-182(E) | Community-based probation services fee reporting requirements |
Any local community-based probation services agency collecting such fees shall keep records of the collected fees, report the amounts to the locality serving as fiscal agent and make all records + See moreavailable to the community criminal justice board. Such fees shall be in addition to any other imposed on a defendant or offender as a condition of a deferred proceeding, conviction or sentencing by a court as required by general law.
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Obligation to collect or record | Supervision agency |