Section 12-19-250 Imposition; assessment, collection. (a) There shall be levied and imposed a tax in the amount of sixteen dollars ($16), to be called the “fair trial tax,” in each and every criminal case in any municipal court. (b) The fee shall be automatically assessed in each case upon conviction or adjudication and shall be […]
Section 12-19-250.1 Imposition of additional fee on every case; charge and collection; distribution to Fair Trial Tax Fund. Repealed by Act 99-427, p. 759, §12, 1999 Regular Session, effective June 10, 1999. (Acts 1981, No. 81-716, p. 1203; Acts 1983, No. 83-744, p. 1225, §15.)
Section 12-19-251 Remittance into Fair Trial Tax Fund. When the fair trial tax is collected in circuit or district court, the clerk or register of the court, or the judge if there is no clerk or register, shall remit the receipts monthly to the State Treasury to be paid into a fund to be called […]
Section 12-19-251.1 Retention of tax by municipalities when collected in municipal court; disposition of proceeds by municipalities. Notwithstanding the provisions of this article, when the “fair trial tax” levied and provided for in this article is collected, the clerk of the municipal court of each municipality which has retained its municipal court, instead of remitting […]
Section 12-19-252 Annual appropriations; payment of share of cost of maintaining public defender offices by counties. There is hereby appropriated from the Fair Trial Tax Fund, annually, such amount as may be necessary to pay the fees of counsel, court reporters, and such other necessary expenses of indigent defense as are provided by law. There […]
Section 12-19-253 Expenditures from fund subject to control and approval of Governor. (a) Expenditures from the Fair Trial Tax Fund shall be subject to the control and approval of the Governor. (b) In his discretion the Governor may limit the payment of expenses incurred in one county or judicial circuit to revenues collected within such […]
Section 12-19-254 Disposition of unexpended and unencumbered balance in fund at close of fiscal year. Any unexpended and unencumbered balance remaining in the Fair Trial Tax Fund at the close of the state fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund of the state but shall be retained in the “Fair Trial Tax Fund” […]
