§ 45-13-82 — Assessment of Docket Fee in Certain Cases; Solicitor’s Fair Trial Fund

(a) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Clarke County, a docket fee, hereinafter referred to as a solicitor’s fee, shall be assessed in each case. The fees shall be collected by the circuit clerk and distributed monthly to the Solicitor’s Fair Trial Fund in the county or to the fund that may be hereafter prescribed by law for the solicitor’s fee. The solicitor’s fee shall be in an amount equal to all docket fees or court costs which are assessed upon an adjudication of guilt in a criminal case and distributed to the Fair Trial Tax Fund.
(b) The solicitor’s fee shall be collected in all criminal cases where the defendant is adjudged guilty, a bond forfeited, a penalty imposed, or where there is issued any alias or capias warrant of arrest. The solicitor’s fee shall be in addition to and not in lieu of any other fees or costs. The solicitor’s fee shall not be waived or remitted unless the defendant proves to the reasonable satisfaction of the sentencing judge that the defendant is not capable of paying the fee within the reasonable foreseeable future.
(c) The District Attorney in Clarke County shall establish the Solicitor’s Fair Trial Fund. The solicitor’s fee paid pursuant to subsection (a) shall be placed in the fund and shall be used by the district attorney for the support of the district attorney’s office or for any other legitimate law enforcement purpose.

Legislative History

(Act 2008-490, p. 1069, §§1-3.)