(a) Fee Schedule. There is hereby established a schedule of fees to be taxed as costs in any civil, criminal or traffic action or proceeding in the Xenia Municipal Court for the performance by officers or other employees of the City's Division of Police. The applicable fees and any other extraordinary expenses, including overtime, shall be taxed as costs in the case. The Clerk of the Court shall pay those fees and other expenses, when collected, to the City's Finance Director for payment into the City's General Fund.
(b) Fees. For the services specified in this section, the City's Police Division shall charge the following fees, which the Court or its Clerk shall tax in the bill of costs against the judgment debtor or those legally liable therefor for the judgment:
(1) For the service and return of the following writs and orders:
A. Warrant to arrest, for each person named in the writ, twenty dollars ($20).
B. Attachment for contempt, for each person named in the writ, six dollars ($6).
C. Writ of possession or restitution, sixty dollars ($60).
D. Subpoena, for each person named in the writ in either a civil or criminal case, ten dollars ($10).
E. Summoning each juror, six dollars ($6).
F. Copy of indictment, for each defendant, five dollars ($5).
G. All summons, writs, orders or notices, for the first name, six dollars ($6), and for each additional name, one dollar ($1).
H. Writ of attachment for the purpose of garnishment, ten dollars ($10).
I. Writ of attachment of property, except for the purpose of garnishment, forty dollars ($40).
J. Writ of replevin, forty dollars ($40).
K. Writ of execution:
(i) When money is paid without levy or when no property is found, thirty dollars ($30);
(ii) When levy is made on real property, for the first tract, twenty-five dollars ($25), and for each additional tract, ten dollars ($10);
(iii) When levy is made on goods and chattels, including inventory, fifty dollars ($50).
(2) In addition to the fee for service and return:
A. On each summons, writ, order or notice, a fee of two dollars ($2) per mile for the first mile, and one dollar ($1) per mile for each additional mile, going and returning, actual mileage to be charged on each additional name.
B. Taking bail bond, three dollars ($3).
C. Taking a prisoner before a judge or court, per day, five dollars ($5).
D. Poundage on all moneys actually made and paid to the Police Division on execution, decree or sale of real estate, one and one-half percent (1½%).
(3) When any of the services described in division (b)(1) or (b)(2) of this section are rendered by an officer or employee of the Xenia Police Division, the applicable legal fees and any other extraordinary expenses, including overtime, provided for the service shall be taxed in the costs in the case.
(ORC 1901.26)
(Ord. 2022-28. Adopted 08/25/22)