Service of process fees.

WORKING DRAFT
2005
STATE OF WYOMING
05LSO-0652

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0274

Service of process fees.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Brechtel

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to service of process; increasing fees that may be assessed for service of process as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.
W.S. 18
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608(a)(intro) is amended to read:

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608.

Fees generally.

(a)

For the serving of process according to the Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure, each county sheriff shall receive from the party requesting service a single fee, to be determined and set biannually by the board of county commissioners after a public hearing, paid in advance to be credited to the county general fund, not to exceed
twenty dollars ($20.00)
thirty-five dollars ($35.00)
for the first three (3) attempts at service at a different time and date for each attempt. Thereafter a fee not to exceed five dollars ($5.00) may be charged for each succeeding attempt. The court may waive the fees upon an adequate showing of indigency. Any fees waived may, pursuant to court order, be assessed and collected against any judgment rendered. Each county sheriff shall receive from the party for whom service is rendered in civil cases the following fees which shall be transmitted to the county treasurer to be credited to the county general fund and which shall be paid in advance if demanded by the sheriff from the party for whom the service is rendered:

Section 2.
This act is effective July 1, 2005.

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