Clerk & Sheriff Trust Accounts Funds List

A partial list of funds which must be placed in interest-bearing accounts where the interest is to be remitted to the GSCCCA according to Code Sections 15-6-76.1, 15-7-49, 15-9-18 and 15-10-240 includes:

  • Cash bonds posted in criminal cases
  • Cash bonds for violations of laws pertaining to traffic, motor vehicles, motor common carriers, motor contract carriers, road taxes on motor carriers, game, fish, boating or litter
  • Funds deposited as forthcoming bond or eventual condemnation money bond for possession of vehicle seized as alleged contraband for illegal conveyance or storage of distilled spirits
  • Funds deposited as settlement value of vehicle seized as alleged contraband for illegal conveyance or storage of distilled spirits
  • Funds deposited as proceeds of sale of livestock running at large or straying
  • Funds deposited for supersedeas bond given as security on appeal
  • Funds deposited for supersedeas bond given on writ of certiorari to magistrate court for review of conviction of criminal or quasi-criminal offense or violation of any ordinance
  • Funds deposited for supersedeas bond on appeal by person convicted of crime
  • Funds deposited for supersedeas bond on appeal in civil cases
  • Funds deposited in interpleader
  • Funds deposited as settlement value in forfeiture or condemnation proceedings against illegal minerals or products after violation of law concerning deep drilling for oil, gas and other minerals
  • Funds deposited upon sale of property seized in connection with violation of controlled substance law
  • Funds deposited as security for release of RICO lien or resulting from sale of real property or beneficial interest pursuant to lien
  • Payment of the amount awarded by a special master in condemnation (not under Transportation Code)
  • Payment of the amount of the award or verdict after proceedings before the court upon appeal from a special master's decision in condemnation (not under Transportation Code)
  • Funds paid into the registry for restitution
  • Funds paid into the registry in equitable interpleader
  • Funds deposited as security for payment of costs and expenses of bringing prisoner as witness in civil trial
  • Funds deposited as settlement value for contraband seized for alleged violation or seafood fishery laws
  • Funds deposited as bond for security or as proceeds of sale or lease of motor vehicles seized after operation by habitual violator
  • Funds deposited after the sale of lands in statutory partition
  • Funds deposited by tenants in distress and dispossessory proceedings
  • Funds paid as compensation for condemnation of private way