(a)(1) In addition to all other charges, fees, judgments, and costs of court, a service of process fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) shall be collected in Choctaw County for service or attempted service of process on each complaint, counter claim, third party complaint, or declaratory judgment proceeding requiring personal service of process by the sheriff in civil proceedings filed in the State of Alabama. (2) A service of process fee of fifty dollars ($50) shall be collected for service or attempted service of process on each document requiring personal service of process by the sheriff on each complaint, counter claim, cross claim, third party complaint, or declaratory judgment and proceedings requiring personal service of process for matters pending or to be commenced in a court outside of the State of Alabama. (b) A Sheriff’s Law Enforcement Fund shall be created to supplement the budget of the Choctaw County Sheriff’s Office. The fund shall be used for law enforcement purposes and to discharge the duties of the office of the sheriff as determined by the sheriff in the public interest, to include, but not be limited to, training expenses, ammunition, clothing and uniforms, vehicles, travel expenses, and equipment costs. (c) The clerk of the court or designee in Choctaw County by law for the respective courts shall collect the service of process fee designated in subsection (a) and deposit the fee into the Sheriff’s Law Enforcement Fund. (d) The Sheriff’s Law Enforcement Fund shall be an additional fund separate from the budget of the sheriff as provided for in the county general fund. The fees deposited into the Sheriff’s Law Enforcement Fund shall not diminish, offset, or take the place of budgeted funds or any other source of income established for the sheriff or for the operation of the office of the sheriff. (e) The district attorney, law enforcement, grand juries, and Choctaw County shall be exempt from payment of the fees provided for in this section.
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