CHAPTER 546

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 14-182, as amended, and 19.1-887 of the
Code of Virginia, relating to fees in criminal cases. CH 565]

Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1, That §§ 14-132, as amended, and 19.1-337 of the Code of Virginia be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 14-182. Fees for services performed by the judges or clerks of
courts not of record in criminal actions and proceedings shall be as follows
and such fees shall be included in the taxed costs:

(1) For issuing a warrant of arrest, or a warrant for violation of
an ordinance, including the issuing of all subpoenas, one dollar; provided,
that when such fee is collected from the defendant or other person for
him, such fee shall be * two dollars.

(2) For issuing a search warrant, one dollar.

(3) For trying or examining a case of misdemeanor, including swear-
ing witnesses and taxing costs, two dollars.

(4) For examining a charge of felony, including swearing witnesses
and taxing costs, two dollars.

(5) For admitting any person to bail, including the taking of the
necessary bond, one dollar, which shall, notwithstanding other provisions
to the contrary, be collected at the time of admitting the person to bail,
but which shall in no case be paid out of the State treasury.

(6) For filing and indexing all papers connected with any criminal
action in a county or municipal court, one dollar and twenty-five cents,
which when collected shall be transmitted to the clerk of the circuit or
corporation court with such papers in the manner prescribed by § 19.1-335,
when such papers are required by law to be transmitted to a court of
record.

§ 19.1-837. The clerk’s fee for his services under the two preceding
sections * shall be one dollar and twenty-five cents upon every such fine
and costs, or costs, which fee shall be taxed and collected as a part of the
costs in each case. In cases wherein the accused is acquitted, or wherein
the costs are not collected from the accused in Commonwealth cases, the
clerk’s fee shall be twenty-five cents only, to be paid out of the State
treasury on proper accounts. The clerk’s fee for filing warrants and sum-
monses for violations of local ordinances shall be taxed as a part of the
costs and paid in conformity with § 14-132 of this Code.