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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