General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 280 Fines and Forfeitures
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recovery of fines and forfeitures - Chapter 280, Section 1
Fines and forfeitures exacted as punishments for offences or violation or neglect of any duty imposed by statute may, unless otherwise provided, be prosecuted for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of certain fines and forfeitures; apportionment among beneficiaries - Chapter 280, Section 2
A fine or forfeiture imposed by a court shall, except as otherwise provided, be paid over to the state treasurer. Twenty per cent of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Proceedings to recover penalties; appointment of counsel - Chapter 280, Section 3
In proceedings in the name of the commonwealth for the recovery of fines, forfeitures or penalties, the whole or any part of which do not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Criminal prosecutions; expenses paid by commonwealth; waiver of costs for indigent defendants - Chapter 280, Section 4
Expenses arising in a criminal prosecution, including fees of grand and traverse jurors for travel and attendance therein, shall be paid by the commonwealth. Fees...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal briefs in criminal cases; payment of costs - Chapter 280, Section 5
In a criminal case in which questions of law are carried to the supreme judicial court, the attorney general or district attorney may have necessary...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Costs as penalty for crime; expenses of prosecution - Chapter 280, Section 6
Costs shall not be imposed by a justice as a penalty for a crime. A justice may, as a condition of the dismissal or placing...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Special cost assessments; exemption - Chapter 280, Section 6A
Before imposing a fine or forfeiture as a punishment or part punishment for a crime, the court or justice shall levy as a special cost...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Criminal assessments - Chapter 280, Section 6B
[ First paragraph effective until September 18, 2013. For text effective September 18, 2013, see below.]The court shall impose an assessment of not less than...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assessment proceeds - Chapter 280, Section 6C
Any assessment imposed pursuant to section six B shall be deposited in the Drug Analysis Fund established by section fifty-one of chapter ten. The proceeds...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificates of fines imposed; delivery to state treasurer - Chapter 280, Section 7
At the end of every sitting of the superior court for the transaction of criminal business, the clerk shall make and deliver to the state...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transfer to state treasurer of fines paid - Chapter 280, Section 8
The clerk of the superior court for the transaction of criminal business for Suffolk county, the clerks of the municipal courts in Boston, the sheriff,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fines paid; transfer to state treasurer by clerks of courts in Suffolk county - Chapter 280, Section 9
The clerks of all courts in Suffolk county, except those named in the preceding section, who are required to account to the commonwealth shall, on...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of witness fees; presentment of certificate - Chapter 280, Section 10
The state treasurer shall pay to the persons entitled therein all witnesses fees or other money due for services rendered or expenses incurred in any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certification of fines and forfeitures; payment to commonwealth - Chapter 280, Section 11
Except as otherwise provided in section eighty of chapter two hundred and seventy-six, fines and forfeitures imposed in criminal prosecutions by the superior court to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Escape of prisoner; liability of sheriff for fines or forfeitures of prisoner - Chapter 280, Section 12
A sheriff who, having a person in his custody by virtue of the sentence of a court, voluntarily or negligently suffers him to escape shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure of sheriff to pay fines or forfeitures of escaped prisoner; remedy - Chapter 280, Section 13
If a sheriff neglects to make such payment for thirty days, the state treasurer shall recover of him in contract the amount of such fines,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Default in fine payment; commitment to jail or house of correction; payment to jailer or superintendent - Chapter 280, Section 14
A person committed to a jail or house of correction in default of payment of a fine may pay it to the keeper of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Quarterly transfers to state treasurer of payments received by jailer or superintendent; account on oath - Chapter 280, Section 15
Every keeper of a jail and superintendent of a house of correction shall, on the first days of January, April, July and October, pay over...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment by state treasurer of expenses or fees; time limit for demand; qualifications for payment to clerks of district court - Chapter 280, Section 16
The state treasurer shall pay over to the persons entitled thereto all amounts allowed to them for expenses or fees in criminal prosecutions, or allowed...
Last modified: September 11, 2015