NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1112

HOUSE BILL 1291

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 162-7 RELATING TO THE FEES TO BE CHARGED BY THE SHERIFF OF WILSON COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 162-7, as the same appears in the 1957 Cumulative Supplement of Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"The Sheriff or other lawful officer of Wilson County is hereby authorized to charge the following fees:

Arrest ............................................................................................................ $ 3.00

Serving Capias .............................................................................................      3.00

Serving summons in civil actions and special proceedings in

      which there is only one party defendant ..............................................      2.00

Serving summons on each additional defendant in civil actions

      and special proceedings ........................................................................      2.00

Serving subpoena .........................................................................................        .75

Serving claim and delivery ..........................................................................      3.00

Serving each additional defendant in claim and delivery action ..............      2.00

Serving execution ........................................................................................      2.00

Serving orders of courts, and notices, other than when

      serving summons ...................................................................................      2.00

Summoning a juror ......................................................................................        .50

Posting notices ............................................................................................      1.00

Taking bond ..................................................................................................      1.00

Levying an attachment .................................................................................      3.00

Allotment of widow's year's support .........................................................      2.00

Ejectment and recovery of possession of land .........................................      5.00

Laying off homestead and/or personal property exemption by

      three commissioners and sheriff .........................................................    20.00

Commission for collecting money under execution: 5% on first $500.00 and 2½% on excess of $500.00.

"Whenever the sheriff is required to sell land or personal property under execution or order of the court and deeds, reports and/or other legal papers are required to be made by the sheriff, an attorney shall prepare all legal papers in connection with same and the Clerk of the Superior Court shall fix a reasonable attorney's fee for such services to be paid said attorney as court cost in the action or proceeding; provided that when a fee is not fixed herein, such fee shall be as provided in G. S. 162-6."

Sec. 2. This Act shall apply only to Wilson County.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. 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 17th day of June, 1959.