§ 12-21-18 - Payment of fine liquidated by labor. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 12-21-18

   § 12-21-18  Payment of fine liquidated bylabor. – Whenever a fine payable in whole or in part, to any city, town, or society, orto any person as complainant, shall have been liquidated by the labor of theperson fined, or paid by him or her at any jail in the state, the generaltreasurer shall, upon the proper order of the state controller, pay to thecity, town, society or person so much of the amount of the fine so liquidatedor paid, as the city, town, society, or person may be entitled to, which orderof the state controller shall be by him or her drawn on his or her receiving aproper return or certificate from the clerk of the court in which the fine wasimposed, together with a proper return or certificate from the jailer.