1. The sheriff shall collect the following fees:
a. For serving a notice and returning it, for the first person served, ten dollars, and each additional person, ten dollars except the fee for serving additional persons in the same household shall be five 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, fifteen 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, fifteen dollars, and the necessary expenses incurred while serving subpoenas in criminal cases or cases relating to hospitalization of persons with mental illness.
d. For summoning a grand or trial jury, all necessary and actual expenses incurred by the sheriff.
e. For summoning a jury to assess the damages to the owners of lands taken for works of internal improvement, and attending them, sixty 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, ten dollars.
g. For making and executing a certificate or deed for lands sold on execution, or a bill of sale for personal property sold, twenty-five dollars.
h. For the time necessarily employed in making an inventory of personal property attached or levied upon, eight dollars per hour.
i. For a copy of any paper required by law, made by the sheriff, fifty cents.
j. Mileage at the rate specified in section 70A.9 in all cases required by law, going and returning. Mileage fees do not apply where provision is made for expenses, and both mileage and expenses shall not be allowed for the same services and for the same trip. If the sheriff transports one or more persons by auto to a state institution or any other destination required by law or if one or more legal papers are served on the same trip, the sheriff is entitled to one mileage, the mileage cost of which shall be prorated to the persons transported or papers served. However, in serving original notices in civil cases and in serving and returning a subpoena, the sheriff shall be allowed mileage in each action where the original notice or subpoena is served, with a minimum mileage of one dollar for each service. The sheriff may refuse to serve any legal processes in civil cases until the fees and estimated mileage for service have been paid.
k. For attending sale of property, thirty 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 ten 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, one dollar; for the removal and custody of the liquor, actual expenses; for the destruction of the liquor under the order of the court, one dollar and actual expenses; for posting and leaving notices in these cases, one dollar and actual expenses.
n. For posting a notice or advertisement, one dollar.
o. For delivering prisoners under a change of venue, the fee authorized under section 815.8.
2. The mileage fees allowed by law may be retained by the sheriff as an addition to the sheriff's annual salary. In counties having a population of one hundred thousand or more, the county may contract with the sheriff for the use of an automobile on a monthly basis in lieu of payment of mileage in the service of criminal processes.
3. The sheriff shall keep an accurate record of the fees collected in a fee book, make a quarterly report of the fees collected to the board, and pay the fees belonging to the county into the county treasury as provided in section 331.902.
4. The sheriff shall deposit funds collected and held by the sheriff in an approved depository as provided in chapter 12C.
1. [C51, § 2536; R60, § 1570, 4145; C73, § 3788, 3789, 3807; C97, S13, § 511; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 5191; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 337.11; S81, § 331.655(1); 81 Acts, ch 117, § 654] ~I2. [C24, § 5192; C27, 31, 35, § 5191-a1, 5192; C39, § 5191.2, 5192; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 337.13, 337.14; S81, § 331.655(2); 81 Acts, ch 117, § 654] ~I3. [C97, S13, § 508; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 5246, 5247; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 342.2, 342.3; S81, § 331.655(3); 81 Acts, ch 117, § 654] ~I4. [S81, § 331.655(4); 81 Acts, ch 117, § 654]
83 Acts, ch 198, § 23; 85 Acts, ch 118, §1; 88 Acts, ch 1133, § 2; 90 Acts, ch 1230, §92; 96 Acts, ch 1129, § 85
Referred to in § 812.5, 815.8
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