(a) The District Attorney for the Seventh Judicial Circuit shall maintain and keep a special fund known as the District Attorney’s Fund. Any funds on deposit in the treasuries of the counties in the circuit that generally would be designated for appropriation to the District Attorney’s Fund shall be transferred to the office of the district attorney to be deposited and maintained in the District Attorney’s Fund.
Terms Used In Alabama Code 45-8-82.20
Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
(b) All fees taxed as costs and collected in all criminal cases heretofore paid to the respective county treasury in the circuit, for the District Attorney’s Fund, shall be paid directly to the district attorney for deposit into the District Attorney’s Fund. All other fees including, but not limited to, fees collected by the Worthless Check Unit and fees collected by forfeiture shall also be deposited in this fund.(c) The district attorney shall make expenditures from the District Attorney’s Fund for expenses incurred in performing the duties of his or her office.
