Alabama § 45-58-81.09 - Booking and Administration Fee.

§ 45-58-81.09. Booking and Administration Fee.

(a) In Shelby County, a booking and administration fee in the amount of thirty dollars ($30) shall be assessed by the clerk of the court or the municipal official assigned the responsibility for assessing, entering, and collecting costs of court as court costs against each defendant incarcerated in or booked in the Shelby County Jail if the defendant is convicted or pleads guilty in cases prosecuted in the circuit court or district court of the county or in a municipal court of any municipality located entirely or in part in the county.

(b) If the court suspends imposition of sentence on a defendant or places him or her on probation and does not enter a judgment of conviction, the court shall impose the booking and administration fee as an additional court cost.

(c) The clerk of the court or the municipal official assigned the responsibility for assessing, entering, and collecting costs of court shall enter the booking and administration fee on the docket sheet and collect the fee in the same manner and at the same time as other court costs are collected. The booking and administration fee assessed pursuant to this section shall be in addition to all other fines, court costs, or other charges now or hereafter provided by law. The court costs provided by this section shall not be waived by any court unless all other fees, assessments, costs, fines, and charges associated with the case are waived.

(d) The clerk of the court or the municipal official assigned the responsibility for assessing, entering, and collecting costs of court shall remit the booking and administration fees collected pursuant to this section on a monthly basis to the Shelby County Commission to be deposited in a special fund within the county general fund to be used by the county commission for jail capital projects and jail maintenance costs.