15.2-1627.3 - Attorneys for the Commonwealth and city attorneys; in criminal cases; when no costs or fees taxed.
§ 15.2-1627.3. Attorneys for the Commonwealth and city attorneys; in criminalcases; when no costs or fees taxed.
The fees of attorneys for the Commonwealth in all felony and misdemeanorcases in which there is a conviction and sentence not set aside on appeal ora judgment for costs against the prosecutor, and for expenditures made in thedischarge of his duties shall be as follows:
For each trial of a single count felony indictment, $40.
For each trial of a multiple count felony indictment, $40 per count.
For each person tried for a misdemeanor in his circuit court, $15, and foreach person prosecuted by him before such court of his county or city for amisdemeanor, which he is required by law to prosecute, or upon an indictmentfound by a grand jury, $15, and in every misdemeanor case so prosecuted thecourt or judge shall tax in the costs and enter judgment for such misdemeanorfee.
No attorney for the Commonwealth or city attorney shall receive a fee forappearing in misdemeanor cases before a district court notwithstanding anyprovision of law to the contrary.
No costs or fees shall be taxed for, or in any way allowed to, an attorneyfor the Commonwealth of any city or county or a city attorney of any city inany case, unless he in person, or by a duly authorized assistant, actuallyappears and prosecutes the proceedings before the court.
(Code 1950, §§ 14-99, 14-130; 1964, c. 386, §§ 14.1-88, 14.1-121; 1975, c.591; 1983, c. 229; 1998, c. 872; 1999, c. 9; 2010, c. 874.)