Except as otherwise expressly provided, the following fees and costs must be collected by the magistrate or his officers and deposited in the general fund of the county: (1) for summoning a witness to magistrate court in a civil action, three dollars, plus mileage at the current state rate; (2) for summoning the jury panel to try a civil action in magistrate court, five dollars, to be taxed against the losing party; (3) for summoning a coroner's jury and witnesses, five dollars, and mileage, to be paid only if inquest is demanded by person other than the State, county, or authorized officer thereof; (4) for serving a summons, rule, order, or notice by a magistrate in a civil action, five dollars, plus mileage; (5) for serving an attachment or civil arrest on a person and making return thereof, five dollars, plus mileage; (6) for selling an estray, five percent of the sale proceeds; (7) for levying execution, posting notice of sale, conducting sale, and paying over proceeds in a magistrate court action, ten dollars; (8) for serving warrants, or any other criminal process, and for conveying prisoners by order of the magistrate or other court, mileage as permitted under Section agistrate court action, ten dollars; (8) for serving warrants, or any other criminal process, and for conveying prisoners by order of the magistrate or other court, mileage as permitted under Section 8-21-1040. HISTORY: 1979 Act No. 164 Part I Section 3; 1988 Act No. 678, Part I, Section 2, eff July 25, 1988.
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