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§59-1-31. Monthly Payments; How Credited; Report Required

Except for the funds designated in section twenty-eight-a of this article, each of the officers named in section twenty-nine of this article shall at the end of each month pay into the county treasury all fees, costs, percentages, penalties, commissions, compensation, income and all other perquisites of whatever kind collected by his office during such […]

§59-1-32. Reduction or Remission of Fees Prohibited; Penalty for Default in Payment

None of the officers named in section twenty-nine of this article shall be authorized to make any reduction, abatement or remission of any of the fees, costs, percentages, penalties, commissions, allowances, compensation, income or any other perquisites of whatever kind that it may be their duty to charge and collect. If any such officer shall […]

§59-1-33. Deposit for Costs

When any action at law, suit in equity or other proceeding is instituted, the clerk of the court wherein the same is instituted shall require from the plaintiff a reasonable deposit of money for the services to be performed by himself or any other officer named in this article: Provided, however, That such clerk shall […]

§59-1-25. Accounting for Fees

Every sheriff or collector to whom such fee bills are so delivered shall, on or before July 1, next after such delivery, account therefor with the officer entitled thereto by returning such as he may not have collected, with the indorsement thereon of the words "No property found," and by paying to such officer or […]

§59-1-26. Limitation on Distress or Suit for Collection of Fees

No fee, when a fee bill has not been issued, shall be collected by distress or suit after ten years from the time when the service was done that is charged for therein; or, if a fee bill has been issued, after ten years from the time when the last fee bill was issued.

§59-1-11a. Additional Costs in Certain Criminal Proceedings

(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, in each criminal case before a circuit court in which the defendant is convicted, whether by plea or at trial, under the provisions of section two, article five, chapter seventeen-c of this code or section eighteen-b, article seven, chapter twenty of this code, […]

§59-1-12. Payment of Fines by Credit Card or Payment Plan

A circuit court may accept credit cards in payment of all fines, cost, forfeiture, restitution or penalties. The Supreme Court of Appeals shall adopt rules regarding the use of credit or check cards to pay fines, and any charges made by the credit card company may be paid from the gross credit card collections.

§59-1-13. Fees to Be Charged by Clerk of Supreme Court of Appeals

The Clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals shall charge the following fees to be paid by the parties for whom the services are rendered: For all copies of petitions, records, orders, opinions or other papers, per page. 25¢ For each certificate under seal of the court $5 For license to practice law, suitable for […]

§59-1-14. Fees to Be Charged by Sheriffs

(a) The county commission shall determine the amount which the sheriff may charge, which charges shall not exceed the following: For serving on any person an order, notice, summons or other process where the body is not taken, except a subpoena served on a witness, and making return thereof $25.00 For summoning a witness 25.00 […]

§59-1-15. Payments to Sheriffs and Clerks Out of State or County Treasury

There shall be paid out of the State Treasury to clerks and sheriffs for services rendered the state in a civil case such fees as would be chargeable for the like service of an individual, after such fees are duly certified to the Auditor. There shall be paid by the county court according to the […]