NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 622

HOUSE BILL 559

 

 

AN ACT TO REGULATE AND FIX THE FEES OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN SURRY COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That the Justices of the Peace of Surry County shall receive the following fees and none other:

Issuing summons, one dollar ($1.00) where there is only one defendant and the sum of fifty cents (50¢) for each additional defendant.

Trial and Judgment, one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50).

Docketing Judgment, fifty cents (50¢).

Transcript of Judgment for recording, one dollar ($1.00) where there is only one defendant and the sum of ten cents (10¢) for each additional defendant.

Issuing subpoena, twenty-five cents (25¢) for each witness.

Taking affidavit in any proceeding, fifty cents (50¢).

Jury trial and verdict, three dollars ($3.00).

Issuing execution, one dollar ($1.00) where there is only one defendant.

Return notice of appeal, one dollar ($1.00).

Warrant of arrest in criminal action, two dollars ($2.00).

Warrant of commitment, seventy-five cents (75¢).

Issuing claim and delivery, including summons, affidavit, bond, order for seizure of property, trial of issues joined, three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50) where there is only one defendant and the sum of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) for each additional defendant.

Issuing attachment papers, including application affidavit, bond, order of levy and seizure, judgment of trial, three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50) where there is only one defendant and the sum of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) for each additional defendant.

Recognizance of witnesses, twenty-five cents (25¢) for each name: Provided not more than three witnesses shall be recognized except in cases of felonies.

Affidavit and order of removal, seventy-five cents (75¢).

Capias and order of arrest, one dollar ($1.00).

Probate or acknowledgment of deed or other instrument in writing required or admitted to registration, twenty-five cents (25¢) for each signer.

Taking of any bond, fifty cents (50¢).

Allotting widow's years' allowance, one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50).

Taking of depositions, fifty cents (50¢) for each copy sheet.

Garnishment for taxes, one dollar ($1.00).

Issuing notices, one dollar ($1.00) for each copy.

Filing and docketing lien, one dollar ($1.00) where there is only one defendant and the sum of fifty cents (50¢) for each additional defendant.

Sec. 2. Chapter 432 of the 1951 Session Laws and all other laws and clauses of laws in conflict herewith are repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of May, 1967.