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§ 16-90-711. Confidential information

When submitted to the Crime Victims Reparations Board as part of an application, the following information shall be confidential: (1) Documents submitted by a claimant which relate to medical treatment; and (2) Law enforcement investigative reports, if confidential under any other law.

§ 16-90-712. Conditions for reparations — Changes in awards

(a) Reparations shall not be awarded: (1) Unless the claim has been filed with the Crime Victims Reparations Board within one (1) year after the injury or death upon which the claim is based, unless the board finds good cause for the failure to file a timely claim; (2) To a claimant who was the […]

§ 16-90-713. Awards apart from prosecution

(a) An award may be made whether or not any person is prosecuted or convicted. (b) The Crime Victims Reparations Board may suspend the proceedings pending disposition of a criminal prosecution that has been commenced or is imminent but may make a tentative award under § 16-90-716.

§ 16-90-714. Subrogation of state to claimant’s rights

(a) If reparations are awarded, the state shall be subrogated to all the rights of a claimant to receive or recover from a collateral source to the extent that reparations were awarded. (b) (1) In the event the claimant recovers reparations, other than under the provisions of this subchapter for injuries or death resulting from […]

§ 16-90-716. Limitation on reparations — Manner of payment

(a) (1) Reparations payable to a victim and to all other claimants sustaining economic loss because of injury to or death of that victim may not exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000). (2) However, for those victims whose injuries are catastrophic and result in a total and permanent disability, the maximum reparations amount shall not exceed […]

§ 16-90-717. Crime Victims Reparations Revolving Fund

There is created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the Crime Victims Reparations Board to be designated the “Crime Victims Reparations Revolving Fund”. The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of all moneys received by the board from any source including moneys applied for […]

§ 16-90-719. Property damage — Reparations — Intent

(a) (1) Persons who have suffered damage to their primary residence and surrounding real property in an amount in excess of five hundred dollars ($500) as a result of a criminal act or who have had personal property stolen from their primary residence valued in excess of five hundred dollars ($500), and who do not […]

§ 16-90-704. Penalty

The filing of a false claim for reparations pursuant to this subchapter shall constitute a Class D felony.