(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 each case. The drug enforcement fee shall be in an amount equal to twenty-seven dollars ($27) in each non-drug case, eighty-two dollars ($82) in each misdemeanor drug case, and one hundred seven dollars ($107) in each felony drug 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 clerk of the court as an administrative fee. Ten dollars ($10) of the fees assessed in each case in the municipal courts shall be distributed to the appropriate fund established by the chief of police of the municipality and expended at his or her discretion for law enforcement purposes. Ten dollars ($10) assessed in each case in the circuit or district court shall be distributed to the Pickens County Sheriff’s Law Enforcement Fund for law enforcement purposes. The remainder of the fee shall be distributed 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 bond forfeited, a penalty imposed, or where there is issued any alias or capias warrant of arrest, or in any other case where court costs are assessed, whether a defendant is adjudged guilty or not. The drug enforcement fee shall be in addition to and not in lieu of any other fees or costs, and shall not be waived or remitted unless all other costs and charges of court are waived. (c) The District Attorney for the Twenty-fourth Judicial Circuit shall establish a separate fund to be called the Pickens County Drug Enforcement Fund. All sums collected and deposited into the fund pursuant this section may be expended by the district attorney for the support of the drug task force that serves the Twenty-fourth Judicial Circuit, including, but not limited to, the payment of any and all expenses incurred by the drug task force, the payment of any matching monies required under the terms of any grant that may be awarded by any governmental or other entity for the support of the drug task force, the payment or supplementing of salaries for personnel of the drug task force, or for any other law enforcement purpose.
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