Thursday, August 21, 2008
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Tracking Virginia’s General Assembly
since 2007.
SB1293: Clerks, sheriffs, etc.; localities exempt from paying fees for certain services.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 17.1-266 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 17.1-266. Services rendered in Commonwealth's cases.
No clerk, sheriff or other officer shall receive payment out of the state treasury for any services rendered in cases of the Commonwealth, whether in a court of record or a court not of record, except as allowed by statute. Localities shall be exempt from paying fees for services rendered by a clerk or other court officer for cases, whether in a court of record or a court not of record, when the locality is a party to a case in its own court system or in any other jurisdiction when the localities have a reciprocal waiver of fees agreement. Sheriffs may, in writing, grant a waiver of the sheriff's fee to one or more localities.
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