R.I. Gen. Laws § 35-6-31: Accounting for court fines and forfeitures.

Deputy sheriffs, jailers, and other persons, including clerks of courts, receiving fines, penalties, and forfeitures accruing, imposed by the court or belonging to the state, or costs due or payable to the court and/or into the state treasury, shall account daily, with the supreme court director of finance, in accordance with § 8-15-9, for the fines, penalties, forfeitures, and costs.