Ala. Code § 45-58-81.04: Solicitor’s Fee for Juvenile, Traffic, Criminal, and Quasi-Criminal Cases; Solicitor’s Fund.

(a) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Shelby County in the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, a docket fee, hereinafter referred to as solicitor’s fee, shall be assessed in each case. The fees, when collected, shall be distributed monthly as follows: Three dollars ($3) from each case to the circuit clerk to be deposited into the circuit clerk’s fund or, if the case originates in the municipal court, three dollars ($3) to the municipal court clerk to be deposited into the municipal clerk’s fund or the fund otherwise established for the operation of the office of the municipal court, to be used as provided by law for the operation of the office of the circuit court clerk or municipal court clerk as the case may be and the remainder of each fee to the Solicitor’s Fund or District Attorney’s Fund in the county or to the fund that may be hereafter prescribed by law for the solicitor’s fee. The solicitor’s fee shall be in an amount not less than an amount equal to any and all docket fees or court costs which are to be collected and distributed to the Fair Trial Tax Fund in the cases. In no event shall the solicitor’s fees be less than an amount equal to the Fair Trial Tax Fund docket fees which are prescribed for an adjudication or finding of guilt of the criminal offense charged.

(b) The solicitor’s fee shall be collected in all criminal 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. The solicitor’s fee shall be in addition to and not in lieu of any other fees or costs. The solicitor’s fee shall not be waived or remitted unless the defendant proves to the reasonable satisfaction of the sentencing judge that the defendant is not capable of paying the fee within the reasonably foreseeable future.

(c) The solicitor’s fee may be expended, as the district attorney sees fit, for the payment of any and all expenses incurred by the district attorney for law enforcement and in the discharge of the duties of the office.