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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 13A-12-281 | Additional penalties prescribed |
In addition to any disposition and fine authorized by Sections 13A-12-202, 13A-12-203, 13A-12-204, 13A-12-211, 13A-12-212, 13A-12-213, 13A-12-215, or 13A-12-231, or any other statute indicating the dispositions that can be ordered + See morefor such a conviction, every person convicted of a violation of any offense defined in the sections set forth above, shall be assessed for each offense an additional penalty fixed at one thousand dollars ($1,000) for a first offense and two thousand dollars ($2,000) for a second or subsequent offense
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 13A-8-72 | Traffic signs--penalties | A person who is convicted of violating subsection (a) of Section 13A-8-71 shall be fined not more than fifty dollars ($50). | $0 - $50 | All | Yes | Court | No |
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 13A-11-53 | Brass knuckles and slingshots. |
Anyone who carries concealed about his person brass knuckles, slingshots or other weapon of like kind or description shall, on conviction, be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than + See more$500.00, and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than six months.
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$50 - $300 | All | Yes | Court | No |
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 13A-12-3 | Selling cigarettes to minors |
Any person who sells, barters, exchanges or gives to any minor any cigarettes, cigarette tobacco or cigarette paper, or any substitute for either of them shall, on conviction, be fined + See morenot less than $10.00 nor more than $50.00 and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than 30 days.
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 13A-11-56 | Using firearms while fighting in public place |
Any person who, while fighting in the streets of any city or town, or at a militia muster, or at any public place, whether public in itself, or made public + See moreat the time by an assemblage of persons, uses or attempts to use, except in self-defense, any kind of firearms shall, on conviction, be fined not less than $200.00 nor more than $500.00, and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not less than six months.
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 13A-11-224 | Storing gunpowder, etc., in city or town. |
Any person who keeps on hand, at any one time, within the limits of any incorporated city or town, for sale or for use, more than 50 pounds of gunpowder + See moreor other explosives shall, on conviction, be fined not less than $100.00.
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 13A-13-7 | Inducing or attempting to induce abortion, miscarriage or premature delivery of woman |
Any person who willfully administers to any pregnant woman any drug or substance or uses or employs any instrument or other means to induce an abortion, miscarriage or premature delivery + See moreor aids, abets or prescribes for the same, unless the same is necessary to preserve her life or health and done for that purpose, shall on conviction be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $1,000.00 and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than 12 months.
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$100 - $1000 | All | Yes | Court | No |
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 12-19-26 | Administrative fee for periodic payments; payment to General Fund; notice of fee. |
There is hereby imposed an administrative fee of $1.00 to be collected by the clerks of the circuit and district courts and the registers of the circuit courts for the + See morereceipt and disbursement of each periodic payment made to their offices under any order, decree or judgment of the circuit or district court which provides for periodic and continuing payments of alimony, child support, or court-ordered restitution, except for payments received from a responding state pursuant to Sections 30-4-80 through 30-4-98
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 12-19-170 | Docket fees to be uniform for criminal cases; exception for conservation cases. |
Docket fees for criminal cases shall be uniform by court level and type of case; except, that in all conservation cases the docket fee shall be increased to include an + See morearrest and bond fee of $7.00.
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 12-19-171(a)(1)a. | Schedule and distribution of fees -- Juvenile and criminal cases in district and circuit courts. | (a) The following docket fees shall be collected for juvenile and criminal cases in the district court and the circuit court:(1) District Court: a. Traffic infraction $ 92.00 | $92 | Traffic | Yes | Court | No |
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 12-19-171(a)(1)b. | Schedule and distribution of fees -- Juvenile and criminal cases in district and circuit courts. | (a) The following docket fees shall be collected for juvenile and criminal cases in the district court and the circuit court:(1) District Court: b. Issuance of alias writ 20.00 | $20 | All | Yes | Court | No |
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 12-19-171(a)(1)e. | Schedule and distribution of fees -- Juvenile and criminal cases in district and circuit courts. | (a) The following docket fees shall be collected for juvenile and criminal cases in the district court and the circuit court:(1) District Court: e. Preliminary hearing 30.00 | $30 | All | Yes | Court | No |
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 12-19-171(a)(1)f. | Schedule and distribution of fees -- Juvenile and criminal cases in district and circuit courts. | (a) The following docket fees shall be collected for juvenile and criminal cases in the district court and the circuit court:(1) District Court: f. Bond forfeiture 65.00 | $65 | All | Yes | Court | No |
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 12-19-173(b) | Distribution of docket fees -- Cases in circuit and district courts in which bond forfeited. |
Effective October 1, 2000, the docket fees for bond forfeitures in district and circuit courts shall be increased by five dollars ($5) and the additional fee shall be deposited into + See morethe Fair Trial Tax Fund.
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$5 | All | Yes | Court | No |
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 12-19-171(a)(2)a. | Schedule and distribution of fees -- Juvenile and criminal cases in district and circuit courts. | (2) Circuit Court:a. Issuance of alias writ 30.00 | $30 | All | Yes | Court | No |
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 12-19-171(a)(2)d. | Schedule and distribution of fees -- Juvenile and criminal cases in district and circuit courts. | (2) Circuit Court:d. Bond forfeiture 65.00 | $65 | All | Yes | Court | No |
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 12-19-171(a)(3) | Schedule and distribution of fees -- Juvenile and criminal cases in district and circuit courts. | Docket fees for cases in the juvenile division of the district court or circuit court shall be assessed at eighty-five dollars ($85) | $85 | All | Yes | Court | No |
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 12-19-171(b) | Schedule and distribution of fees -- Juvenile and criminal cases in district and circuit courts. | A fee of eight dollars ($8) shall be collected for the issuance of each witness subpoena. | $8 | All | Yes | Court | No |
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 12-19-171(C) | Schedule and distribution of fees -- Juvenile and criminal cases in district and circuit courts. | Effective October 1, 2000, the docket fees in criminal and juvenile cases shall be increased by five dollars ($5) | $5 | All | Yes | Court | No |
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Alabama | Ala.Code 1975 § 12-19-172(a)(1) | Schedule and distribution of fees -- Municipal ordinance cases in district and circuit courts. | (a) The following docket fees shall be collected for municipal ordinance cases in the district court:(1) Traffic infraction $ 92.00 | $92 | Traffic | Yes | Court | No |
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