35-6-25
Section 35-6-25 Service of process on certain parties defendant; guardian ad litem; judgment
not affected by death of defendant; section cumulative. (a) When it is necessary to make any
person a party defendant in any partition proceedings brought under the provisions of this
article for partition sale of land, or any interest therein and the plaintiff, after exercising
reasonable diligence, is unable to locate the whereabouts, and to ascertain whether any such
defendant is alive at the time of the filing of the complaint, the facts showing just what
diligence the plaintiff has exercised must be specifically alleged in the complaint, and such
defendant may then be made a party, by publication as in the case of unknown defendants, in
his name followed by the words: " ____ and his heirs or devisees, if deceased."
If the defendant so sued does not appear in person or by attorney before expiration of the
time for filing pleadings in the case, the court shall appoint a guardian ad litem to...
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38-9-6
Section 38-9-6 Protective placement or other protective services. (a) An interested person
may petition the court to order protective placement or other protective services for an adult
in need of protective services. No protective placement or other protective services may be
ordered unless there is a determination by the court that the person is unable to provide
for his or her own protection from abuse, neglect, exploitation, sexual abuse, or emotional
abuse. Upon a petition, setting forth the facts and name, age, sex, and residence of the person,
the court of the circuit in which the person resides shall appoint a day, not more than 30
days from the filing of the petition, for the hearing on the petition. If, on the hearing
of a petition, the person is not represented by counsel, the court shall appoint a guardian
ad litem to represent him or her. A jury of six persons shall be impanelled for the hearing
to serve as the trier of facts. (b) Costs of court proceedings under this...
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43-8-198
Section 43-8-198 Transfer of contest to circuit court; appeal from judgment of circuit court;
certification of judgment, etc., to probate court. Upon the demand of any party to the contest,
made in writing at the time of filing the initial pleading, the probate court, or the judge
thereof, must enter an order transferring the contest to the circuit court of the county in
which the contest is made, and must certify all papers and documents pertaining to the contest
to the clerk of the circuit court, and the case shall be docketed by the clerk of the circuit
court and a special session of said court may be called for the trial of said contest or,
said contest may be tried by said circuit court at any special or regular session of said
court. The issues must be made up in the circuit court as if the trial were to be had in the
probate court, and the trial had in all other respects as trials in other civil cases in the
circuit court. An appeal to the supreme court may be taken from the...
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45-13-82.01
Section 45-13-82.01 Assessment of docket fee in certain civil cases; Fair Trial Tax Fund. (a)
In all civil cases in the circuit and district courts in Clarke County, a docket fee, hereinafter
referred to as a solicitor's fee, shall be assessed in each case. The solicitor's fee in civil
cases shall be in the same amount as the docket fee or court cost which is assessed in civil
cases in the circuit and district courts and distributed to the Fair Trial Tax Fund. The fees,
when collected, shall be distributed monthly as follows: Three dollars ($3) from each case
to the office of circuit clerk to be deposited into the Circuit Clerk's Fund and to be used
as provided by law for the operation of the office of the circuit clerk and the remainder
of each fee to the solicitor's fund or district attorney's fund in the county or to the fund
in the county that may be hereafter prescribed by law for the solicitor's fee. (b) The solicitor's
fee may be expended by the district attorney for the...
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45-24-80.20
Section 45-24-80.20 Additional court costs and fees. In Dallas County, in addition to all other
fees, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of five dollars 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 Dallas
County, or the District Court of Dallas County, hereinafter filed in or arising in the Circuit
Court of Dallas County, or the District Court of Dallas County, or brought by appeal, certiorari,
or otherwise to the Circuit Court of Dallas County, or the District Court of Dallas 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 Dallas County, as
the case may be. Such fees, when collected by the clerks or...
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45-45-82.01
Section 45-45-82.01 District attorney's fee. (a) In all cases in the municipal, juvenile, district,
and circuit courts in Madison County and the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit, a docket fee,
hereinafter referred to as a district attorney's fee, shall be assessed in each case. The
fees, when collected, shall be distributed monthly to the District Attorney's Fund in the
county or to the fund that may be hereafter prescribed by law for the district attorney's
fee. The district attorney's fee shall be in an amount equal to all docket fees or court costs
which are assessed in cases and distributed to the Fair Trial Tax Fund. A three dollar ($3)
administrative fee from each assessed fee shall be retained by the circuit clerk pursuant
to Section 12-17-225.4(2), when the case originates in the juvenile, district, or circuit
court, or by the municipal court clerk to be deposited into a municipal court clerk fund and
used for administrative expenses when the case originates in the municipal...
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45-8-81.03
Section 45-8-81.03 Drug and violent crime reduction fee. (a) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal,
and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Calhoun
County, a docket fee in the amount of twenty-five dollars ($25), hereinafter referred to as
a drug and violent crime reduction fee, shall be assessed in each case. The fees, when collected,
shall be distributed monthly as follows: (1) In the case of municipalities, two dollars ($2)
per case to the municipal court clerk's office, three dollars ($3) per case to the chief of
police for use by the police department, and twenty dollars ($20) to the Calhoun/Cleburne
Drug and Violent Crime Task Force. (2) In the case of district and circuit court, two dollars
($2) per case to the circuit court clerk's office, three dollars ($3) per case to the Calhoun
County Commission and twenty dollars ($20) to the Calhoun/Cleburne Drug and Violent Crime
Task Force. (b) The drug and violent crime reduction fee shall be...
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9-11-12
Section 9-11-12 Violations of fish and game laws - Fees of arresting officers. When an arrest
for a violation of the provisions of the game and fish laws is made by a salaried officer
and the defendant is convicted, there shall be taxed, as cost, the same fee as a sheriff in
the state is entitled to for similar services and which, if collected from the defendant,
shall be immediately remitted by the trial court directly to the Commissioner of Conservation
and Natural Resources, and said fee shall be used for the purpose of the administration of
the Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries of the Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources. If the arrest is made by a nonsalaried warden or officer and said fee is collected
from the defendant, such nonsalaried warden or officer shall be entitled to said fee, but
in no case shall such nonsalaried warden or officer be entitled to any part of a fine assessed
and collected from the defendant; provided, however, that no fees shall be...
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9-13-24
Section 9-13-24 Fees of arresting officers, etc.; informers' fees. When an arrest for a violation
of the provisions of the forestry laws is made by a salaried officer or salaried employee
of the State Forestry Commission and the defendant is convicted, there shall be taxed as costs
the same fee as the sheriff in this state is entitled to for similar services and, if collected
from the defendant, shall be immediately remitted by the trial court directly to the State
Forester, and said fee shall be used for the purpose of the administration of the State Forestry
Commission. If the person making the arrest shall be a nonsalaried officer or not an employee
of the State Forestry Commission and if said fee is collected from the defendant, such person
shall be entitled to said fee and shall receive in addition thereto an informer's fee of one-half
the fine in each case where the information furnished by him results in a conviction and the
fine is collected and paid into court; provided,...
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12-21-225
Section 12-21-225 Testimony for state or defendant by convict. (a) The presiding judge of any
circuit court or district court having reason to believe that the testimony of any convict
serving a sentence in the penitentiary or to hard labor for the county is necessary in any
criminal prosecution for the state and that other evidence cannot be obtained on behalf of
the state may order a writ to be issued by the clerk, commanding the Board of Corrections
to have the convict before the court on a specified day to give testimony in the particular
case for the state. Moreover, upon the sworn petition of the defendant in a criminal prosecution
showing that a convict serving sentence in the penitentiary knows facts which would be beneficial
to him, the judge may, if he believes the ends of justice will be served thereby, order the
issuance of such a writ to secure the appearance of the convict to testify on behalf of the
defendant. The writ shall be served on the board at least one week...
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