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2012 Massachusetts General Laws
PART III COURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES(Chapters 211 through 262)
TITLE VI COSTS AND FEES
CHAPTER 262 FEES OF CERTAIN OFFICERS
- Section 1 Justices of the peace; enumeration of fees
- Section 2 Fees of clerks of district and Boston municipal court departments in civil actions
- Section 2A Repealed, 2004, 309, Sec. 1
- Section 3 Special justices
- Section 3A Child support collection services; fee
- Section 4 Fees of clerks of supreme judicial, county and appeals courts
- Section 4A Clerks of superior court department
- Section 4B Uniform schedule of fees
- Section 4C Surcharge on filing fees
- Section 4D Repealed, 2004, 310, Sec. 1
- Section 5 Copies provided by clerks
- Section 6 Record of judgment; additional fees
- Section 7 Manner of collection
- Section 8 Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and constables; enumeration of fees
- Section 8A Annual accounts of deputy sheriffs and constables
- Section 9 Process; service; return by mail
- Section 10 Conveyance; necessity of certificate
- Section 11 Leaving copy of writ
- Section 12 Deputy sheriff; attendance upon meetings of county commissioners
- Section 13 Precepts for elections; subpoenas of general court; service
- Section 14 Arrest on mesne process and supplementary proceedings
- Section 15 Copies of process
- Section 16 Service of process issued by land court
- Section 17 Execution of ejectment; service
- Section 18 Officers; duty to specify items of fees
- Section 19 Endorsement of fees; certificate of use of conveyance; penalty
- Section 20 Search for person named in process
- Section 21 Criminal cases; allowance of expenses
- Section 22 Attendance upon certain courts
- Section 23 Examination of sureties; approval of bonds
- Section 24 Bail fees; persons authorized to take bail; restrictions
- Section 25 Compensation of jurors
- Section 26 Inquests; service of process
- Section 27 Juvenile offenders; officer as a witness
- Section 28 Repealed, 1971, 1076, Sec. 14
- Section 29 Witness fees
- Section 30 Witness held in jail
- Section 31 Appraisers; compensation
- Section 32 Interpreters and nonresident witnesses
- Section 33 Witnesses in delinquency cases
- Section 34 Town clerks; enumeration of fees
- Section 34A Repealed, 1981, 684, Sec. 19
- Section 35 Marriages
- Section 36 Certification
- Section 37 Records or papers; examination
- Section 38 Registers of deeds’ enumeration of fees
- Section 39 Land court; numeration of fees
- Section 40 Registers of probate and family court; enumeration of fees
- Section 40A Child support collection services; fee
- Section 41 Notaries public; enumeration of fees
- Section 42 Commissioners in other states; enumeration of fees
- Section 43 Construction
- Section 44 Copies
- Section 44A Certified copies of vital records; exemption
- Section 45 Page defined
- Section 46 List of fees; manner of posting
- Section 46A Copies of records concerning veterans; furnishings without charge
- Section 47 Criminal cases; return of expense under oath
- Section 48 Criminal cases; service of several processes on single defendant; allowance of fees
- Section 49 Mittimus; fees for issuance or service; limitations
- Section 50 Salaried officers; limitation on acceptance of fees; penalty
- Section 51 Criminal cases; additional fees and expenses
- Section 52 Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec. 276
- Section 53 Attendance of police officers on vacation, furlough or day off as witnesses; criminal or juvenile cases
- Section 53A Police officers as witnesses outside place of residence; criminal, juvenile or superior courts
- Section 53B Witness fees of uniformed members of department of state police
- Section 53C Compensatory time off to police officers
- Section 54 Repealed, 1970, 546
- Section 55 Railroad police
- Section 56 Witness fees of public officers; disallowance
- Section 57 Public officers as witnesses; allowance of expenses
- Section 58 Penalty
- Section 59 Witness in multiple criminal cases; apportionment of fees
- Section 60 Witnesses’ fees; refusal in certain cases
- Section 61 Witness certificates; purchase of orders, etc., by officers prohibited
- Section 62 False certificates of witnesses; penalty
- Section 63 Delinquent magistrate; refusal of fees
- Section 64 Complainant; refusal of fees
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