Criminal injuries compensation fund – County criminal injuries compensation reserve

(a) Ask a legal question, get an answer ASAP!30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105(1) (A) When any person is convicted by a circuit court or a comparable court of record with jurisdiction over criminal matters of a crime of any nature after July 1, 1984, except those crimes for which the law imposes as a maximum possible punishment a fine of less than five hundred dollars ($500) and no imprisonment, there is levied a privilege tax of twenty-six dollars and fifty cents ($26.50) in addition to any other costs or fees imposed in the action. If the person is convicted of a crime against the person, the privilege tax shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) in addition to any other costs or fees. (B) In addition to all other taxes imposed and in addition to other costs or fees, if any person is convicted of a crime against the person of a child under the age of eighteen (18) that constitutes a criminal offense under § 39-12-101, § 39-13-101, §§ 39-13-501 – 39-13-505, § 39-15-302, or § 39-17-1005, there is levied a privilege tax of five hundred dollars ($500). (2) If any person is convicted by a court of general sessions or a comparable court with jurisdiction over criminal matters of a crime of any nature after July 1, 1984, except those crimes for which the law imposes as a maximum possible punishment a fine of less than five hundred dollars ($500) and no imprisonment, there is levied a privilege tax of twenty-six dollars and fifty cents ($26.50) in addition to any other costs or fees imposed in the action. If the person is convicted of a crime against the person, the privilege tax shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) in addition to any other costs or fees. (3) Nothing in this subsection (a) shall be construed as applying to violations of the motor vehicle laws unless the violation is covered by the provisions of title 55, chapter 10, part 4, relating to driving while intoxicated, § 55-10-205, relating to reckless driving, if the reckless driving was proximately caused by the use of an intoxicant or § 55-10-101, relating to the duty to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in injury or death. (4) Whether a person convicted of a crime is exempted from payment of the tax imposed by this subsection (a) shall be determined by the maximum possible sentence imposed by law for the offense rather than the sentence the person actually receives. (5) The tax imposed by this subsection (a) shall be collected by the clerks of the various courts from each person convicted and all funds so collected, with the exception of one dollar ($1.00), which shall be retained by the clerk to defray the expenses of collecting and processing the funds, shall be paid over to the department of revenue for apportionment pursuant to § 67-4-606. (6) In addition to all other revenues set forth in this section, all revenue to which the general fund of the state is otherwise entitled from the sale of illegal contraband seized by any law enforcement agency of the state shall be deposited to the criminal injuries compensation fund. (b) When an offender liable to pay the tax has been convicted and sentenced to a county correctional institution or program, or to an institution or program maintained by the department, the clerk of court shall certify to the appropriate official as provided in this subsection (b) whether payment of the tax has been made. If the offender liable to pay the tax has been convicted and sentenced to an institution or program maintained by the department, the clerk of court shall certify to the commissioner of correction, in the form as the commissioner may direct, whether payment of the tax has been made. The commissioner shall then cause any amount owing to be collected from the prisoner during the offender’s period of confinement by the department. If the offender liable to pay the tax has been convicted and sentenced to a correctional institution or program maintained by a cou