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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01r207ts48d| Title: | Municipal fines and fees: A 50-state survey of state laws |
| Other Titles: | Municipal fines and fees: A fifty-state survey of state laws |
| Contributors: | Carpenter, Dick M., II Pochkhanawala, Ricard Menjou, Mindy |
| Keywords: | Municipal revenue—United States Municipal finance—United States Discrimination in criminal justice administration—United States |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2020 |
| Publisher: | Institute for Justice |
| Place of Publication: | Arlington, Va. |
| Description: | In recent years, media reports about abusive municipal fines and fees practices have proliferated, reflecting the phenomenon’s growth as well as increasing awareness of—and concern about—the issue. In order to understand municipal fines and fees behavior and propose more comprehensive policy solutions, a more systematic approach is needed. One such approach is an analysis based on state laws that may be related to municipal taxation by citation. Given that municipalities are political subdivisions of states and so subject to their laws, state legislatures may be well situated to address municipal fines and fees behavior. Now, for the first time, this report provides a nationwide accounting of state laws relating to municipal fines and fees. This accounting comes in the form of an index of 52 law-based factors that measure the extent to which state laws may prohibit, sustain, encourage or fail to neutralize municipal taxation by citation. An important caveat to note is that although this accounting is the most comprehensive now available, there are likely relevant laws our factors do not capture. |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01r207ts48d |
| Related resource: | https://ij.org/report/fines-and-fees-home/ |
| Appears in Collections: | Monographic reports and papers (Publicly Accessible) |
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