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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60355</law_id><section_number>16.1-69.48:2</section_number><catch_line>Fees for services of district court judges and clerks and magistrates in civil cases</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>16.1-274</reference><reference>17.1-132</reference><reference>17.1-278</reference><reference>8.01-506.2</reference><reference>8.01-511</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="16.1">Courts Not of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4.1">District Courts</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">Financing of the District System</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Fees in civil cases for services performed by the <span class="dictionary">judges</span> or clerks of general district <span class="dictionary">courts</span> or <span class="dictionary">magistrates</span> in the event any such services are performed by <span class="dictionary">magistrates</span> in civil cases shall be as provided in this section, and, unless otherwise provided, shall be included in the taxed costs and shall not be refundable, except in case of error or as herein provided.
		For all <span class="dictionary">court</span> and <span class="dictionary">magistrate</span> services in each distress, detinue, <span class="dictionary">interrogatory</span> <span class="dictionary">summons</span>, <span class="dictionary">unlawful detainer</span>, civil warrant, notice of motion, <span class="dictionary">garnishment</span>, <span class="dictionary">attachment</span> issued, or other civil proceeding, the fee shall be $36. No such fee shall be collected (i) in any tax case instituted by any county, city or town or (ii) in any case instituted by a school board for collection of overdue book rental fees. Of the fees collected under this section, $10 of each such fee collected shall be apportioned to the <span class="dictionary">Courts</span> Technology Fund established under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Courts Technology Fund" href="/17.1-132/">17.1-132</a>.
		The <span class="dictionary">judge</span> or clerk shall collect the foregoing fee at the time of issuing process. Any <span class="dictionary">magistrate</span> or other issuing officer shall collect the foregoing fee at the time of issuing process, and shall remit the entire fee promptly to the <span class="dictionary">court</span> to which such process is returnable, or to its clerk. When no <span class="dictionary">service of process</span> is had on a <span class="dictionary">defendant</span> named in any civil process other than a notice of <span class="dictionary">motion for judgment</span>, such process may be reissued once by the <span class="dictionary">court</span> or clerk at the <span class="dictionary">court</span>&#x2019;s direction by changing the return day of such process, for which service by the <span class="dictionary">court</span> or clerk there shall be no charge; however, reissuance of such process shall be within three months after the original return day.
		The clerk of any district <span class="dictionary">court</span> may charge a fee for making a copy of any paper of record to go out of his office which is not otherwise specifically provided for. The amount of this fee shall be set in the discretion of the clerk but shall not exceed $1 for the first two pages and $.50 for each page thereafter.
		The fees prescribed in this section shall be the only fees charged in civil cases for services performed by such <span class="dictionary">judges</span> and clerks, and when the services referred to herein are performed by <span class="dictionary">magistrates</span> such fees shall be the only fees charged by such <span class="dictionary">magistrates</span> for the prescribed services.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 14-133; 1954, c. 287; 1956, c. 556; 1958, c. 555; 1960, cc. 17, 106; 1964, c. 386, &#xA7; 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; 2011, c. 890; 2020, c. 1289; 2020, Sp. Sess. I, c. 56; 2022, Sp. Sess. I, c. 1.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
