NOTICE is hereby given that a bill substantially as follows will be introduced in the 2023 Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama and application for its passage and enactment will be made:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT
Relating to Pickens County; to provide for a new court cost to pay for service of process by the sheriff of documents filed in the district and circuit courts in Pickens County; and to deposit the proceeds into the Pickens County Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. This act shall apply to Pickens County.
Section 2. (a)(1) In addition to all other court costs authorized in Pickens County, a service of process fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) shall be collected for service or attempted service of process on each document requiring personal service of process by the sheriff in all cases filed or pending in the district court or the circuit court of Pickens County.
(2) The service fee collected by the circuit court clerk for a case filed or pending in either court shall be distributed as follows:
a. Five dollars ($5) to the circuit clerk's Judicial Administration Fund.
b. Twenty dollars ($20) to the Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund for the law enforcement purposes of the sheriff's office.
(3) The State of Alabama, its political subdivisions, and their instrumentalities are exempt from this cost.
(b) The fees deposited into the Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund are in addition to, and do not diminish, offset, or take the place of any other cost or fee that is disbursed to the sheriff or the county jail.
Section 3. This act shall become effective on the first day of the third month following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.