(a) In addition to all existing charges, fees, judgments, and costs of court, the clerk, sheriff, or other appropriate court official in the civil division of the District and Circuit Courts of Lawrence County shall increase the fees by seventeen dollars fifty cents ($17.50) per document personally served by the sheriff's office, or its designee. For the purposes of this section, the term document shall include multiple papers served on a party or entity at one time.
(b) In addition to all existing charges, fees, judgments, and costs of court, the clerk, sheriff, or other appropriate court official in the civil division of the District and Circuit Courts of Lawrence County for documents generated out-of-state shall collect a fee of fifty dollars ($50) per document served by the sheriff's office, or its designee. For the purposes of this section, the term document shall include multiple papers served on a party or entity at one time.
(c) For the purposes of this section, all fees imposed under this section are taxed as costs to any party to the action by the judge of the court presiding at the hearing of the matter.
(d) The court official designated in Lawrence County by law for the respective courts shall collect the additional service of process fee designated in subsection (a) with five dollars ($5) retained by the Lawrence County Circuit Clerk's Office and the remaining fee remitted to the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office for deposit in the Sheriff's Civil Process Fund.
(e) The court official designated in Lawrence County by law for the respective courts shall collect the additional service of process fee designated in subsection (b) and remit to the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office for deposit in the Sheriff's Civil Process Fund.
(f) The Sheriff of Lawrence County may use the monies generated by this section for law enforcement purposes as the sheriff sees fit.
(g) Any actions relating to the collection of service of process fees and use of the funds prior to August 1, 2020 are ratified and confirmed.