§ 45-54-81-04

(a) In all juvenile,traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile,district, circuit, and municipal courts in Pickens County, a docket fee,hereinafter referred to as a drug enforcement fee, shall be assessed in eachcase. The drug enforcement fee shall be in an amount equal to twenty-seven dollars ($27) in each non-drug case, eighty-two dollars ($82) ineach misdemeanor drug case, and one hundred seven dollars ($107) in each felonydrug case. The fees, when collected, shall be distributed monthly as follows:Five dollars ($5) of the fees assessed in each case shall be retained by the clerkof the court as an administrative fee. Ten dollars($10) of the fees assessedin each case inthe municipal courts shall be distributed to the appropriate fund establishedby the chief of policeof the municipality and expendedat his or her discretion for law enforcement purposes. Ten dollars ($10) assessed in each case inthe circuit or district court shall be distributed to the Pickens CountySheriff’s Law Enforcement Fund for law enforcement purposes.

aw enforcement purposes. Ten dollars ($10) assessed in each case inthe circuit or district court shall be distributed to the Pickens CountySheriff’s Law Enforcement Fund for law enforcement purposes. The remainder of the fee shall bedistributed to the Drug Enforcement Fund established by the district attorney. (b) The drug enforcement fee shall be collected as prescribed in subsection (a) in all cases where the defendant is adjudged guilty, a bondforfeited, a penalty imposed, or where there is issued any alias or capiaswarrant of arrest, or in any other case where court costs are assessed, whethera defendant is adjudgedguilty or not. Thedrug enforcement fee shall be in addition toand not in lieu of any other fees or costs, and shall not be waived or remittedunless all other costs and charges of court are waived.(c) The District Attorneyfor the Twenty-fourth Judicial Circuit shallestablish a separatefund to be called the Pickens CountyDrug Enforcement Fund. All sums collected and depositedinto the fund pursuant this section may be expended by the district attorneyfor the support of the drug task force that serves the Twenty-fourth JudicialCircuit, including, but not limited to, the

tedinto the fund pursuant this section may be expended by the district attorneyfor the support of the drug task force that serves the Twenty-fourth JudicialCircuit, including, but not limited to, the payment of any and all expensesincurred by the drug task force, the paymentof any matching monies required under the terms of any grant that may beawarded by any governmental or other entity for the support of the drug taskforce, the payment or supplementing of salaries for personnel of the drug taskforce, or for any other law enforcement purpose.(Act 2010–590, p. 1323, §§ 1–3; Act 2012–204, p. 336, § 1.)