The following is a schedule of fees that shall be taxed as costs in any civil, criminal or traffic action or proceeding in a Municipal Court of the performance by officers or other employees of the City’s Police Department for any of the services specified herein. The Court or its Clerk, pursuant to Section 1901.26 of the Ohio Revised Code, shall tax in the bill of costs against the judgment debtor or those legally liable therefor for the judgment as follows:
(a) For the service and return of the following writs and orders:
(1) Execution:
A. When money is paid without levy or when no property is found, twenty dollars;
B. When levy is made on real property, for the first tract, twenty-five dollars and for each additional tract, ten dollars;
C. When levy is made on goods and chattels, including inventory, fifty dollars.
(2) Writ of attachment of property, except for purpose of garnishment, forty dollars;
(3) Writ of attachment for the purpose of garnishment, ten dollars;
(4) Writ of replevin, forty dollars;
(5) Warrant to arrest, for each person named in the writ, ten dollars;
(6) Search Warrant, five dollars;
(7) Attachment for contempt, for each person named in the writ, six dollars;
(8) Writ of possession or restitution, sixty dollars;
(9) Subpoena, for each person named in the writ, in either a civil or criminal case, six dollars;
(10) Venire, for each person named in the writ, in either a civil or criminal case, six dollars;
(11) Summoning each juror, other than on venire, in either a civil or criminal case, six dollars;
(12) Writ of partition, twenty-five dollars;
(13) Order of sale on partition, for the first tract, fifty dollars, and for each additional tract, twenty-five dollars;
(14) Other order of sale of real property, for the first tract, fifty dollars, and for each additional tract, twenty-five dollars;
(15) Administering oath to appraisers, three dollars each;
(16) Furnishing copies for advertisements, one dollar for each hundred words;
(17) All summons, writs, orders or notices, for the first name, six dollars and for each additional name, one dollar.
(b) In addition to the fee for service and return:
(1) On each summons, subpoena, writ, order or notice, mentioned above, a fee of one dollar per mile for the first mile, and fifty cents per mile for each additional mile, going and returning, actual mileage to be charged on each additional name;
(2) Taking bail bond, three dollars;
(3) Jail fees, as follows:
A. For receiving a prisoner, five dollars each time a prisoner is received, and for discharging or surrendering a prisoner, five dollars each time a prisoner is discharged or surrendered. The departure or return of a prisoner from or to a jail in connection with a program established under Section 5147.28 of the Revised Code is not a receipt, discharge, or surrender of the prisoner for purposes of this division.
B. Taking a prisoner before a judge or court, per day, five dollars;
C. Order to commit to jail, order on jailer for prisoner, or order of ejectment, including copies to complete service, one dollar for each defendant named therein.
D. Calling action, one dollar;
E. Calling jury, three dollars;
F. Calling each witness, three dollars;
G. Bringing prisoner before court on habeas corpus, six dollars.
(4) Poundage on all moneys actually made and paid to the sheriff on execution, decree or sale of real estate, one and one-half per cent;
(5) Making and executing a deed of land sold on execution, decree or order of the court, to be paid by the purchaser, fifty dollars.
(6) For attending a criminal case during the trail or hearing and having charge of prisoners, each case, two dollars and fifty cents, but, when so acting, such officer shall be entitled to a witness fee if called upon to testify.
When any of the services described in subsection (a) or (b) hereof are rendered by an officer or employee of the City’s Police Department, whose salary or per diem compensation is paid by the City, the applicable legal fees and any other extraordinary expenses, including overtime, provided for the service shall be taxed in the costs in the case and, when collected, shall be paid into the general fund of the City.
The Police Chief shall charge the same fees for the execution of process issued in any other state as the Chief charges for the execution of process of a substantively similar nature that is issued in this State.
(Ord. 058-07. Passed 7-2-07.)
(Ord. 058-07. Passed 7-2-07.)