                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FEES FOR SERVICES OF DISTRICT COURT JUDGES AND CLERKS AND MAGISTRATES IN CIVIL
CASES (§ 16.1-69.48:2)

Fees in civil cases for services performed by the judges or clerks of general
district courts or magistrates in the event any such services are performed by
magistrates 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 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 $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 Courts Technology Fund established under
§ 17.1-132.
		The judge or clerk shall collect the foregoing fee at the time of issuing
process. Any magistrate or other issuing officer shall collect the foregoing fee
at the time of issuing process, and shall remit the entire fee promptly to the
court to which such process is returnable, or to its clerk. When no service of
process is had on a defendant named in any civil process other than a notice of
motion for judgment, such process may be reissued once by the court or clerk at
the court&#8217;s direction by changing the return day of such process, for
which service by the court 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 court 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 judges and clerks, and when the services
referred to herein are performed by magistrates such fees shall be the only fees
charged by such magistrates for the prescribed services.

HISTORY: 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; 2011, c. 890; 2020, c. 1289; 2020, Sp.
Sess. I, c. 56; 2022, Sp. Sess. I, c. 1.