# U.S. legal system: significance of the Clerk of Courts?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 22, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-legal-system-significance-of-the-clerk-of-courts/741108 "2015-12-22T16:10:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 27, 2015, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-legal-system-significance-of-the-clerk-of-courts/741108/21 "2015-12-27T03:25:26Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> In Ohio, the money raised by clerks of court through fees, fines and costs goes into the general fund of the locality (county, city, town or township). Clerks’ offices are often revenue generators for the locality, but the clerk doesn’t get to keep all the money he or she takes in.

that is a better system than the one here in Louisiana…  
Though the fee schedule is set by the legislature. Which means a fee schedule based on a low-volume county (parish in these parts) is a gold mine for parishes with a lot of paperwork to process.

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