SF 501 (LSB 2243SV (3) 87)

RELATING TO CERTAIN FEES COLLECTED BY THE COUNTY  SHERIFF. 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 331.655, subsection 1, paragraphs a, b, c, e, f, g, h, k, l, m, and n, Code 2017, are amended to read as follows:
   a.  For serving a notice and returning it, for the first person served, fifteen thirty dollars, and each additional person, fifteen thirty dollars except the fee for serving additional persons in the same household shall be ten twenty dollars for each additional service, or if the service of notice cannot be made or several attempts are necessary, the repayment of all necessary expenses actually incurred by the sheriff while attempting in good faith to serve the notice.
   b.  For each warrant served, twenty thirty-five dollars, and the repayment of necessary expenses incurred in executing the warrant, as sworn to by the sheriff, or if service of the warrant cannot be made, the repayment of all necessary expenses 

actually incurred by the sheriff while attempting in good faith to serve the warrant.
   c.  For serving and returning a subpoena, for each person served, twenty thirty-five dollars, and the necessary expenses incurred while serving subpoenas in criminal cases or cases relating to hospitalization of persons with mental illness.
   e.  For summoning a jury to assess the damages to the owners of lands taken for works of internal improvement, and attending them, one two hundred dollars per day, and necessary expenses incurred. This subsection does not allow a sheriff to make separate charges for different assessments which can be made by the same jury and completed in one day of ten hours.
   f.  For serving an execution, attachment, order for the delivery of personal property, injunction, or any order of court, and returning it, fifteen thirty dollars.
   g.  For making and executing a certificate or deed for lands sold on execution, fifty dollars, or for making and executing a bill of sale for personal property sold, thirty dollars.
   h.  For the time necessarily employed in making an inventory of personal property attached or levied upon, ten twenty dollars per hour.
   k.  For attending setting a sale of property, fifty seventy-five dollars.
   l.  For conveying one or more persons to a state, county, or private institution by order of court or commission, necessary expenses for the sheriff and the person conveyed and fifteen twenty-five dollars per hour for the time necessarily employed in going to and from the institution, the expenses and hourly rate to be charged and accounted for as fees. If the sheriff needs assistance in taking a person to an institution, the assistance shall be furnished at the expense of the county.
   m.  For serving a warrant for the seizure of intoxicating liquors, five ten dollars; for the removal and custody of the liquor, actual expenses; for the destruction of the liquor under the order of the court, five ten dollars and actual expenses; for posting and leaving notices in these cases, five ten dollars and actual expenses.
   n.  For posting a notice or advertisement, five ten dollars.

    Sec. 2.  Section 331.655, subsection 1, Code 2017, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  p.  For the necessary time employed in attending the service of a writ, twenty-five dollars per hour.

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JACK WHITVER
President of the Senate

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LINDA UPMEYER
Speaker of the House

   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and is known as Senate File 501, Eighty-seventh General Assembly.

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W. CHARLES SMITHSON
Secretary of the Senate

Approved _______________, 2017

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TERRY E. BRANSTAD
Governor