§ 4-410 — Village justices; accounts, fees, and fines

§ 4-410 Village justices; accounts, fees, and fines. 1. The village\njustice:\n a. shall not receive for his own benefit any fees, costs or expenses\nin any action or proceeding, but shall demand and receive the same fees,\ncosts and expenses therein as are provided by law to be paid to a town\njustice in any civil matter and shall keep account thereof and of fines\ncollected by him;\n b. shall pay all such costs, fees and expenses and all fines or other\nmoney so paid to him on any proceeding during any calendar month to the\nstate comptroller within the first ten days of the month following\ncollection. Such money, except as otherwise provided by law, shall be\nthe property of the village of which such justice is an officer;\n c. shall report the fact that he has not received any costs, fees,\nexpenses and fines during any month to the state comptroller within the\nfirst ten days of the succeeding month. Upon receipt of notice from the\nstate comptroller that a justice has not properly reported or properly\naccounted for monies received by such justice, it shall be unlawful for\nthe village to make any further payment of compensation to such justice\nuntil receipt of notice from the comptroller that a proper accounting\nhas been made;\n d. shall not receive or disburse any monies unless he shall furnish or\nreceive a proper receipt therefor, or make a memorandum or record of\nsuch transaction, in such form and detail as the state comptroller shall\nprescribe.\n 2. All the expenses of maintaining the village court, including the\nfees of the village justice if he is not paid a salary, shall be a\nvillage charge. The fees allowable to villages for the services of\nmagistrates and the fees allowable to other officers for services in\ncriminal proceedings, for or on account of an offense which a court of\nspecial sessions has not jurisdiction to try, shall be a county charge,\nif the magistrate had jurisdiction of the proceedings in which the\nservices were rendered. A county shall pay any amount due to a village\nfor the services of a village justice which are a county charge upon\npresentation to it of a claim by the state comptroller for such charges\neach quarter. If any fine legally payable to the state, shall have been\nerroneously paid to the village treasurer, the board of trustees may,\nand is hereby authorized to, appropriate in its next annual budget such\nsum as may be necessary to reimburse the state for such fine so paid.\n