§ 45-59-81.01 — Solicitor’s Fee; Fair Trial Tax Fund

Alabama § 45-59-81.01

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 45: Local Laws
• Ch. 59: St. Clair County
• Art. 8: Courts
• Part 2: Court Costs

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(a)
In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in St. Clair County, 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 in the county or District Attorney’s Fund, or to the fund prescribed by law for solicitor’s fees. The solicitor’s fee shall be in an amount equal to all docket fees or court costs which are assessed and collected upon an adjudication or finding of guilt in criminal cases and distributed to the Fair Trial Tax Fund.
(b) The solicitor’s fee shall be collected in all cases where the defendant is adjudged guilty or found 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 same within the reasonably foreseeable future.
(c) The solicitor’s fee may be expended 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, as the district attorney sees fit.

Legislative History

(Act 2009–585, p. 1721, §§ 1–3.)