§ 21-6-401 - Clerk of Supreme Court.
21-6-401. Clerk of Supreme Court.
(a) (1) The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall be allowed and paid by the appellant or petitioner, in advance, in all civil actions and misdemeanors filed in either the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals a fee of one hundred fifty dollars ($150).
(2) (A) The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall be allowed a fee of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) for a certified question from a federal court.
(B) The fee shall be prorated among the parties filing briefs and paid by each party at the time the brief is filed except that if the Attorney General is requested to file a brief, he or she shall not be required to pay any portion of the fee.
(3) The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall be allowed and paid by the petitioner, in advance, for each petition for rehearing of a decision of the Court of Appeals or Supreme Court a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
(4) If the judgment of the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals is in favor of the appellant or petitioner, the Clerk of the Supreme Court shall tax the fee provided in this subsection in favor of the appellant or petitioner.
(b) (1) The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall be allowed and paid by the petitioner, in advance, for each petition for review of a decision of the Court of Appeals filed in the Supreme Court a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
(2) If the decision of the Court of Appeals is reversed by the Supreme Court, the Clerk of the Supreme Court shall tax the fee provided in this subsection in favor of the petitioner.
(c) The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall also be allowed:
(1) For each certificate and seal ......................$ 1.00
(2) For acknowledging each deed ..................... .50
(3) For copies of papers and records per page ..................... .50
(4) For other services, the same fees allowed clerks of the circuit court.
(d) The Supreme Court may implement a case management system for the courts of the state that may include electronic filing and public online access to court decisions and other court records, and the Supreme Court by court rule may establish a reasonable fee for access and related use.
(e) All of the collected fees provided in subdivisions (a)(1) and (a)(4) of this section and subsections (b) and (c) of this section shall be deposited into a bank to the account of the Supreme Court Library Fund, to be used by the Supreme Court for the maintenance and improvement of the Supreme Court Library.
(f) All of the collected fees provided in subdivisions (a)(2) and (a)(3) of this section and subsection (d) of this section shall be remitted by the Clerk of the Supreme Court on or before the fifteenth day of each month to the Administration of Justice Funds Section on a form provided by the Office of Administrative Services of the Department of Finance and Administration for deposit into the Judicial Fine Collection Enhancement Fund established by 16-13-712.