(a) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal casesin the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in RandolphCounty, a docket fee, hereinafter referred to as a solicitor’s fee, shall beassessed in each case. The fees, whencollected, shall be distributed monthly to the Solicitor’s Fund or DistrictAttorney’s Fund in the county where the fee is collected or to the fund that may be hereafter prescribed bylaw for the solicitor’s fee. Thesolicitor’s fee shall be in an amount equal to all docket fees or court costswhich are assessed upon an adjudication of guilt in a criminal case anddistributed to the Fair Trial Tax Fund. Threedollars ($3) of each fee when collected may be retained by the clerk of thecourt as an administrative fee to be used to pay for the operation of theclerk’s office.(b) The solicitor’s fee shall be collected in all criminal cases where thedefendant is adjudged guilty, a bond forfeited, a penalty imposed, or wherethere is issued any alias or capias warrant of arrest. The solicitor’s fee shall be in addition to and not in lieu ofany other fees or costs. dged guilty, a bond forfeited, a penalty imposed, or wherethere is issued any alias or capias warrant of arrest. The solicitor’s fee shall be in addition to and not in lieu ofany other fees or costs. Thesolicitor’s fee shall not be waived or remitted unless the defendantproves to the reasonablesatisfaction of the sentencing judge that the defendant is not capable ofpaying the fee within the reasonably foreseeable future.(c) The solicitor’s fee may be expended, as the district attorney sees fit,including, but not limited to, providing prosecutors for municipal courts, forthe payment of any and all expenses incurred by the district attorney for lawenforcement, and in the discharge of the duties of the office.(Act 2009–401, p. 728, §§ 1–3; Act 2009–474, p. 867, §§ 1–3.)
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