R.I. Gen. Laws § 35-6-32: Court clerk’s return of fines and penalties.

Every clerk of a court shall, in accordance with § 8-15-9, make a daily return in writing to the supreme court director of finance of all fines collected by him or her due the state, and the amount and circumstances of the fines, if any, collected by the clerk; and shall also make a return of all penalties and costs in any civil or criminal suit or process due the state, which shall have come to or been in his or her hands since the preceding return, and the amount and circumstances of the penalties and costs.