11 DE Code § 5915. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 59. Justices of the Peace|§ 5915. Fines, costs and restitution; collection and disposition.

§ 5915. Fines, costs and restitution; collection and disposition. (a) All fines, costs, restitution, penalties, charges and emoluments imposed or levied by the Justice of the Peace Court, including those costs now levied for constables, shall be for such amounts as are provided by law, and all such amounts imposed or levied shall be collected by the Justice of the Peace Court imposing the same for which a proper receipt shall be given to the person paying the same. Every and all amounts so collected shall be recorded showing the purpose for which the amounts were collected, the name of the person paying same and such other information as the Justice of the Peace Court may require. The information so maintained shall be open to inspection by the State Treasurer and the State Auditor or their authorized agents at all times. All fines and penalties collected for each calendar month shall be paid over by the Justice of the Peace Court to the State Treasurer within 15 days after the first day of the succeeding calendar month, provided that any such fines or forfeitures which, by the laws of this State, are due and payable to a county or municipality thereof shall be paid by the Justice of the Peace Court to the county or municipality entitled thereto. (b) All fines collected for the violation of any of this title, in the limits of any county, incorporated city or town in this State where arrests are procured by the authorized representatives of that county, incorporated city or town, shall be paid to that county, incorporated city or town within which such offense was committed for the use of that county, incorporated city or town. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to entitle any county to fines, penalties or forfeitures arising from an arrest made under this title by an authorized representative of that county for a violation committed within any incorporated city or town. All the fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed and collected in any county of this State for violation of any of the laws of this title, where the arrests are procured by the authorized representatives of the Department of Safety and Homeland Security, shall inure and be paid to the State Treasurer for the General Fund. Such fines, penalties and forfeitures shall be collected as other fines, penalties and forfeitures are collected under the laws of this State, and the officers collecting them shall make a monthly report thereof to the State Treasurer on blanks to be furnished for that purpose by the Department of Safety and Homeland Security. All costs collected for the violation of any of this title shall be paid to the jurisdiction whose court imposed said costs. Code 1852, §  2017;  Code 1915, §  3959;  Code 1935, §  4459;  43 Del. Laws, c. 229, §  1;  11 Del. C. 1953, §  5919;  55 Del. Laws, c. 85, §  33D;  55 Del. Laws, c. 359;  57 Del. Laws, c. 123;  63 Del. Laws, c. 141, §  2;  65 Del. Laws, c. 218, §§  1, 2;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;  74 Del. Laws, c. 110, §  138;  75 Del. Laws, c. 278, §§  9, 10;