T.C.A. § 8-21-409 - Fees for court clerks in certain counties with a charter form of government

• Cite as: T.C.A. § 8-21-409

(a) Circuit court clerks, criminal court clerks, clerks and masters of chancery courts, clerks of courts of general sessions, clerks of trial justice courts, county clerks, clerks of juvenile and probate courts, and clerks of law and equity courts, in counties with a charter form of government having a population of not less than three hundred and fifty thousand (350,000) nor more than four hundred and fifty thousand (450,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census, are authorized to demand and receive for their services, where appropriate, the following fees for services indicated:

(1) Issuing process.

(A) For issuing summons for each defendant, order of publication, attachment for property or witness, replevin, injunction, refunding bonds in equity cases, any notice required by law, fieri facias, scire facias, venditioni exponas, writ of possession, distringas, capias, writ of error, writ of certiorari, writ of supersedeas, or any other writ, ancillary attachments, distress warrants, and criminal summons, five dollars ($5.00).

(B) For issuing subpoena to bring in paper or record, etc., and for issuing subpoena for each witness, two dollars ($2.00).

(C) For issuing state's warrant with affidavit, four dollars ($4.00).

(D) For issuing forcible entry and detainer warrant, or any other civil warrant in general sessions courts, or trial justice courts, three dollars ($3.00).

(E) For each additional name on any state or civil warrant, one dollar ($1.00).

(F) For summons to answer in city's or county's suit for taxes for each defendant, three dollars ($3.00).

(G) For issuing order to sheriff to summon jurors or commissioners to divide land, three dollars ($3.00).

(H) For preparation and issuance of garnishment to officer, two dollars ($2.00).

(I) For each copy of the above processes when required by law, one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50).

(J) For each recognizance, bond or mittimus, two dollars ($2.00).

(2) Filing instruments. For filing each bond, bill, complaint, motion or other pleading, document, exhibit, or article, affidavit, record or paper, presentment or indictment, criminal warrant pending action from grand jury, two dollars ($2.00).

(3) Taking acknowledgment on legal instruments.

(A) For qualifying each surety on a bond or for taking an affidavit, two dollars ($2.00).

(B) For affixing the seal on any legal instrument, two dollars ($2.00).

(C) For taking a deposition, five dollars ($5.00).

(D) For empaneling a jury, two dollars ($2.00).

(E) For examining a party in interrogatories, five dollars ($5.00).

(4) Rule entries.

(A) For each order, bond, bill, complaint, motion or other pleading, document, exhibit, or article, affidavit, record or paper, presentment or indictment, criminal warrant, criminal summons, pending action from grand jury and return of process entered upon the rule, trial, or execution docket, two dollars ($2.00).

(B) For making and entering on execution docket each bill of costs, three dollars ($3.00).

(C) For entering each judgment, three dollars ($3.00).

(D) For entering judgment against state or county, where defendant is shown by execution to be insolvent, three dollars ($3.00).

(E) For entering order of appeal to any appellate court, three dollars ($3.00).

(F) For each probate of a witness, one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50).

(G) For furnishing each bill of costs, two dollars ($2.00).

(5) Minute entries and copies of legal instruments.

(A) For entering minutes or a transcript of record, or copies of any pleadings, papers, and proceedings in a cause, per one hundred (100) words, four (4) figures to be counted as a word, one dollar ($1.00).

(B) Copy of indictment or presentment for a defendant in jail, copy of indictment in minute book, copy of indictment to warden of penitentiary, two dollars ($2.00).

(C) Certified copy of sentence furnished to warden of penitentiary and certified copies and statements of sentence to workhouse for superintendent of workhouse and for county mayor, three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50).

(D) For transcript of judgment and bill of costs for comptroller or treasurer, two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50).

(E) For every certificate not included in some other service, two dollars ($2.00).

(F) Copy of commitment or acquittal to judicial cost accountant, two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50).

(G) Furnishing appointed attorneys, indigent defendants or petitioners with copies of documents at two dollars ($2.00) for the first page and one dollar ($1.00) for each additional page, not to exceed ten dollars ($10.00).