12-19-150
Section 12-19-150 Legislative intent; assessment of fees in criminal cases; submission
of cost bill by municipal or district court clerk and making of final assessment of costs
in circuit court upon appeals from municipal or district courts to circuit courts. (a) It
is hereby declared to be the policy of the state that docket fees and other court costs in
criminal cases shall generally be assessed only upon conviction. It is further declared to
be the policy of the state that a creditor shall not use the criminal process in order to
collect civil debts. The state does recognize that situations will arise from time to time
wherein justice may best be served by allowing a judge to enter an order dismissing a case
upon the payment of costs by the defendant or by the complainant where the judge has determined
that the criminal process has been abused. (b) Docket fees and other court costs in criminal
cases shall be assessed upon conviction; provided that, in the interest of justice,...
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45-11-80.01
Section 45-11-80.01 Additional court costs; Public Safety Technology Fund. (a) In all
criminal, quasi-criminal, and traffic cases in district, circuit, and municipal courts in
Chilton County, there shall be taxed as costs an additional ten dollars ($10) in each case.
The additional court costs shall be collected in all 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 court cost assessed and collected herein shall be in addition to and
not in lieu of any other fees or costs. The court costs 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. (b) The court costs
assessed by this section shall be distributed monthly to the Public Safety Technology
Fund, which shall be created in the county treasury. The fund shall be administered by...

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45-43-81
Section 45-43-81 Law library. In each civil and criminal case hereafter filed in any
municipal, circuit, or district court in Lowndes County, there shall be taxed as costs the
sum of two dollars ($2). The costs taxed under this section shall be collected as other
costs in such cases are collected, and when collected by the clerks or other collecting officers
of such courts, including the register of the circuit court, shall be by them paid over to
the treasurer or depository of Lowndes County for deposit in the county treasury. The sums
so paid over to the county treasury or depository shall be maintained in a separate fund in
the county treasury, designated as the Lowndes County Law Library Fund, and shall be expended
by the district court judge presiding over Lowndes County for establishing, maintaining, equipping,
and operating a law library at Hayneville. The presiding district court judge shall draw warrants
on the county treasury in making expenditures for the purposes...
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45-11-80
Section 45-11-80 Additional costs and fees; Juvenile Court Services Fund; Judicial Administration
Fund. (a) In Chilton County, in addition to all other fees, there shall be taxed as costs
the sum of five dollars ($5) in each civil or quasi-civil action at law, suit in equity, criminal
case, quasi-criminal case, proceedings on a forfeited bail bond or proceedings on a forfeited
bond given in connection with an appeal from a judgment or conviction in any inferior or municipal
court of the county, in the Circuit Court of Chilton County, or the District Court of Chilton
County, hereinafter filed in or arising in the Circuit Court of Chilton County, or the District
Court of Chilton County, or brought by appeal, certiorari or otherwise to the Circuit Court
of Chilton County, or the District Court of Chilton County, which costs shall be collected
as other costs in such cases are collected by the clerk, or ex officio clerk, of the courts
or the register of the Circuit Court of Chilton County,...
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45-9-81
Section 45-9-81 Additional costs and fees; disposition of funds; Judicial Administration
Fund. (a) In Chambers County, in addition to all other fees, there shall be taxed as costs
the sum of twenty dollars ($20) in each criminal case, quasi-criminal case, proceedings on
a forfeited bail bond or proceedings on a forfeited bond given in connection with an appeal
from a judgment or conviction in any inferior or municipal court of the county, in the Circuit
Court of Chambers County, or the District Court of Chambers County, hereinafter filed in or
arising in the Circuit Court of Chambers County, or the District Court of Chambers County,
or brought by appeal, certiorari, or otherwise to the Circuit Court of Chambers County, or
the District Court of Chambers County, which costs shall be collected as other costs in such
cases are collected by the clerk, or ex officio clerk, of the courts or the register of the
Circuit Court of Chambers County as the case may be. Such fees, when collected by...
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45-8-81.02
Section 45-8-81.02 Computer systems; Justice Technology Fund; additional costs, charges,
booking fees. (a)(1) In Calhoun County, in any case in which court costs are assessed in a
municipal court in the county, there shall be assessed and collected, in the same manner as
other costs and charges are collected, an additional court cost in the amount of five dollars
($5) per case which shall be used for the operation, maintenance, upgrade, and support of
computer or technology systems at the Calhoun County Courthouse and for the Calhoun County
Justice Technology Fund. (2) The Calhoun County Justice Technology Fund shall be established
for the deposit of the additional court costs collected in municipal court cases pursuant
to this section. The fund shall be maintained in an interest-bearing account in a bank
within Calhoun County and shall be under the supervision of the Calhoun County Justice Information
System. Funds collected shall be forwarded monthly by the clerks of the municipal...
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32-6-18
Section 32-6-18 Penalties - Violations in general; disposition of funds. (a) Any person
of whom a driver's license is required, who drives a motor vehicle on a public highway in
this state without first having complied with this article or the rules and regulations promulgated
hereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction shall be punished by a fine
of not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), to be fixed in
the discretion of the judge trying the case. In addition to all fines, fees, costs, and punishments
prescribed by law, there shall be imposed or assessed an additional penalty of fifty dollars
($50). This additional penalty of fifty dollars ($50) imposed pursuant to this subsection
shall be assessed in all criminal and quasi-criminal proceedings in municipal, district, and
circuit courts, including, but not limited to, final bond forfeitures, municipal ordinance
violations wherein the defendant is adjudged guilty or pleads guilty,...
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45-28-81.02
Section 45-28-81.02 Solicitor's fee. (a)(1) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and
quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in this state,
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 as follows: Three dollars ($3) of the
fees assessed in each case shall be distributed to the Etowah County Law Library Fund, as
prescribed by law, and the remainder 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. (2) In addition to the solicitor's fee, an additional fee of seven dollars ($7)
shall be assessed as court costs in each case to be distributed as follows: Two dollars...

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45-32-80.20
Section 45-32-80.20 Collection and disposition of funds. (a) All solicitor's and district
attorney's fees hereafter taxed as cost and collected in all criminal cases in all courts
in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit shall be paid by the clerk of the court collecting such
fees into a fund to be designated as the Solicitor's and District Attorney's Fund, and shall
be kept, used, and expended in the manner hereinafter provided. Such payments shall be made
to such fund by the clerk of the court by the 10th day of each month following the collection.
(b)(1) The District Attorney and any Circuit Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit may
requisition expenditures from the Solicitor's and District Attorney's Fund for the payment
of the following items: a. Office supplies, equipment, furniture, postage and telephone expenses,
and clerical or bailiff expenses. b. Necessary expenses relative to obtaining evidence in
any criminal or civil case, whether pending or under investigation. c. Film,...
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45-44-81.02
Section 45-44-81.02 Solicitor's fee. (a) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal
cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Macon 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 as follows: Three dollars ($3) of the fee assessed
in each case shall be distributed to the Macon County Circuit Clerk for operation of the office
of the circuit clerk, three dollars ($3) of the fee assessed in each case prosecuted in the
Notasulga Municipal Court shall be distributed by the municipal court to the Town of Notasulga
to be used by the town for payment of expenses incurred by the town for training and continuing
education expenses for the Notasulga Municipal Court Clerk and Magistrate, and the remainder
of any fees shall be distributed to the Solicitor's Fund or District Attorney's Fund in the
county where the fee is collected or to the fund that may be...
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