16.1-69.48:2 - Fees for services of district court judges and clerks and magistrates in civil cases
§ 16.1-69.48:2. Fees for services of district court judges and clerks andmagistrates in civil cases.
Fees in civil cases for services performed by the judges or clerks of generaldistrict courts or magistrates in the event any such services are performedby magistrates in civil cases shall be as provided in this section, and,unless otherwise provided, shall be included in the taxed costs and shall notbe refundable, except in case of error or as herein provided.
For all court and magistrate services in each distress, detinue,interrogatory summons, unlawful detainer, civil warrant, notice of motion,garnishment, attachment issued, or other civil proceeding, the fee shall be$30. No such fee shall be collected (i) in any tax case instituted by anycounty, city or town or (ii) in any case instituted by a school board forcollection of overdue book rental fees. Of the fees collected under thissection, $10 of each such fee collected shall be apportioned to the CourtsTechnology Fund established under § 17.1-132.
The judge or clerk shall collect the foregoing fee at the time of issuingprocess. Any magistrate or other issuing officer shall collect the foregoingfee at the time of issuing process, and shall remit the entire fee promptlyto the court to which such process is returnable, or to its clerk. When noservice of process is had on a defendant named in any civil process otherthan a notice of motion for judgment, such process may be reissued once bythe court or clerk at the court's direction by changing the return day ofsuch process, for which service by the court or clerk there shall be nocharge; however, reissuance of such process shall be within three monthsafter the original return day.
The clerk of any district court may charge a fee for making a copy of anypaper of record to go out of his office which is not otherwise specificallyprovided for. The amount of this fee shall be set in the discretion of theclerk but shall not exceed $1 for the first two pages and $.50 for each pagethereafter.
The fees prescribed in this section shall be the only fees charged in civilcases for services performed by such judges and clerks, and when the servicesreferred to herein are performed by magistrates such fees shall be the onlyfees charged by such magistrates for the prescribed services.
(Code 1950, § 14-133; 1954, c. 287; 1956, c. 556; 1958, c. 555; 1960, cc. 17,106; 1964, c. 386, § 14.1-125; 1970, c. 569; 1971, Ex. Sess., cc. 155, 253;1973, c. 545; 1975, c. 591; 1982, c. 569; 1983, c. 499; 1984, cc. 293, 702;1990, c. 943; 1991, c. 577; 1992, c. 555; 1997, c. 42; 1998, c. 872; 2003, c.1039; 2006, cc. 623, 718; 2010, c. 874.)