§ 16-68-502 - Fees of officers endorsed on execution -- Fee book.
16-68-502. Fees of officers endorsed on execution -- Fee book.
(a) The clerks of the several courts shall endorse on every execution which they shall issue the fees due to each officer and any other person.
(b) The clerks, at the time of issuing an execution or fee bill or of recovering any fees due to them by any party or other person, shall enter in a book, to be kept for that purpose, the several items for which they have charged, using words of full length.
(c) Every clerk shall deliver to any party or person to whom any fees are due, on demand, a full and complete copy of the entry made in the book, without any compensation for the copy.
(d) When any suit is instituted against any clerk or officer for having asked or taken illegal fees, the book referred to in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, and the entries therein, may be given in evidence on the trial.