§ 45-54-81.02 — Solicitor’s Fee; Collection and Disposition of Funds

Alabama § 45-54-81.02

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 45: Local Laws
• Ch. 54: Pickens County
• Art. 8: Courts
• Part 2: Court Costs

Text

(a) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Pickens County and the Twenty-fourth Judicial Circuit, a docket fee, hereinafter referred to as a solicitor’s fee, shall be assessed in each case. The fees, when collected, shall be distributed monthly to the Solicitor’s Fund or District Attorney’s 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 as prescribed in subsection (a) 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, or in any other case where court costs are assessed, whether a defendant is adjudged guilty or not. 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 all other costs and charges of court are waived.
(c)
The solicitor’s fee may be expended, as the district attorney sees fit, for the payment of any and all expenses incurred by the district attorney for law enforcement and in the discharge of the duties of the office.

Legislative History

(Act 2007–277, p. 376, §§ 1–3; Act 2010–591, p. 1324, § 1.)