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MA Gen L ch 262 § 4b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 4b - Uniform Schedule of Fees

Section 4B. The court administrator of the trial court, shall, subject to the approval of the supreme judicial court, establish and periodically revise a uniform schedule of fees to be charged by the various departments of the trial court for court documents and services which shall include, but not be limited to, certificates of orders, decrees, rulings, judgments, attested and unattested copies of court documents, records, blank writs and summons, subpoenas, writs of habeas corpus, for other forms, for approving or disapproving sureties on bonds or recognizances, for tape cassette recordings of proceedings in the trial court department, for commissions to take depositions, and for waivers of notice of marriage. No fee pursuant to this section shall be charged to the commonwealth or a state agency; provided, however, that if an action initiated by the commonwealth or a state agency results in the appointment of a fiduciary with control over the assets of an estate, any such fees normally chargeable to an estate shall be deferred until the fiduciary is duly appointed and authorized to expend the assets of the estate.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 4c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 4c - Surcharge on Filing Fees

Section 4C. Any party entering a complaint, petition or other civil action in any court of the commonwealth, except small claims cases, in which an initial filing fee is payable, and to which a separate docket number is assigned shall pay to the clerk of said court a surcharge of $15 in addition to the fee otherwise required by this chapter. A party entering a small claims action shall pay a surcharge of $10. All such charges collected pursuant to this section shall be transmitted monthly by the clerk of court to the treasurer and shall be credited to the General Fund.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 5 - Copies Provided by Clerks

Section 5. When clerks cause copies to be printed which they are required to furnish, they shall make no charge for such printed copies in excess of the amount actually paid for the printing thereof. They may require the estimated cost of said printing to be paid in advance, and they shall supervise the printing and correct the proofs without charge. All written copies, including such as are prepared for printing, shall be charged for at the rate of twenty cents a page; provided, that clerks shall, upon the request of the chief police officer of any city or town, or of any district attorney within the commonwealth, furnish without charge to such chief police officer or district attorney certified copies of criminal records in their custody.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 6 - Record of Judgment; Additional Fees

Section 6. When a judgment or decree is entered up, and upon inspection it appears that the record thereof or the record of the proceedings will be of unusual length, the court may order the prevailing party to pay such amount, in addition to the entry fee, as may be just and equitable.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 7 - Manner of Collection

Section 7. Clerks of the courts shall collect all fees in advance.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 8a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 8a - Annual Accounts of Deputy Sheriffs and Constables

Section 8A. Each deputy sheriff and constable shall annually on or before the fifteenth day of April file with the county treasurer an account signed by him under the penalties of perjury of all fees and money received by him under the provisions of section eight for the service of civil process, or, if two or more deputy sheriffs and constables share such fees and money between themselves, they may file such an account jointly, provided that each shall subscribe the same under the penalties of perjury.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 9 - Process; Service; Return by Mail

Section 9. If the person who delivers or forwards a process to an officer for service requests him to return it by mail or express, compensation shall not be allowed for more than twenty miles' travel in the service, unless the officer actually and necessarily travels more than that distance in serving the same, exclusive of travel from the place of service to the place of return, and an officer in such case, who properly directs such process to the place of return and sends it by mail, postage prepaid, or delivers it to an express company, shall not be liable for damages if it fails to reach its destination.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 10 - Conveyance; Necessity of Certificate

Section 10. If it is necessary in the service of civil process for an officer to use a conveyance for a distance exceeding two miles one way, he may be allowed therefor fifteen cents a mile for the distance traveled, not exceeding thirty miles. If he uses the conveyance of another person he shall be allowed the amount actually expended by him therefor; but no allowance for the actual amount so expended by him shall be made unless the officer certifies that it was necessary for him to use a conveyance, and that he actually used it for the distance, and paid therefor the amount stated in his certificate.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 11 - Leaving Copy of Writ

Section 11. Where the officer is by law directed to give or leave a copy of any process, he may charge for each copy at the rate prescribed by section fifteen, except as otherwise provided.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 12 - Deputy Sheriff; Attendance Upon Meetings of County Commissioners

Section 12. A deputy sheriff shall be allowed five dollars a day for attendance upon a meeting of the county commissioners by their order, and five cents a mile for travel out and home once a week during the attendance, to be paid by the county.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 13 - Precepts for Elections; Subpoenas of General Court; Service

Section 13. Sheriffs and other officers shall be paid by the commonwealth, for serving precepts for the election of representatives in congress, fifty cents each, and for the service of subpoenas issued by order of the general court or either branch thereof the same fees as are allowed for the service of subpoenas issued by a court.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 14 - Arrest on Mesne Process and Supplementary Proceedings

Section 14. The fees of sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and constables in proceedings under the provisions of chapter two hundred and twenty-four shall be as follows:  For the service of the summons, or any other process, the fee for which is not otherwise provided by this section, for copies and for travel in serving the same, the same fees as for serving an original summons in an action at law.  For the commitment of a defendant or debtor under the provisions of said chapter two hundred and twenty-four, one dollar for each commitment, and one dollar for each copy left with the jailer.  For each day's attendance at court on the examination of a defendant or debtor in his custody, or in the service of a writ of habeas corpus under section twenty-two of said chapter, including the fee for custody, five dollars.  The necessary expense of a conveyance to and from the jail in the service of such a process.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 15 - Copies of Process

Section 15. The fee for copies of any process of more than one page shall be at the rate of fifty cents a page, except as provided in section eight.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 16 - Service of Process Issued by Land Court

Section 16. In the service of any process issued by the land court, the fees shall be one dollar for posting a copy on each parcel of land, and the same fees for copy, service and travel as are hereinbefore provided for the service of writs.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 17 - Execution of Ejectment; Service

Section 17. In the service of an execution of ejectment the fees shall be: for demand, one dollar; for delivery, one dollar; for all necessary expenses, including packing, teaming and labor; and the officer may be allowed additional compensation by an order of the court from which the execution issued.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 18 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 18 - Officers; Duty to Specify Items of Fees

Section 18. An officer receiving fees for any official duty or service, who, upon request of the person paying them, refuses or neglects to make out in writing in his return a particular account of such fees, specifying for what they respectively accrued, shall forfeit to such person three times the amount so paid.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 19 - Endorsement of Fees; Certificate of Use of Conveyance; Penalty

Section 19. No fees for the service of any process of which the officer is required to make a return shall be allowed, unless itemized and endorsed on the process; and no allowance for the use of a conveyance in the service of a civil process shall be made, unless the officer certifies that it was necessary for him to use a conveyance, and that he actually used such conveyance for the distance set forth in his certificate. An officer who makes a false certificate under this section or section ten shall forfeit thirty dollars for each offence, to the use of the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 20 - Search for Person Named in Process

Section 20. An officer shall not be allowed any fees for making a diligent search for any person named in a process, except the amount actually expended by him in making such search and stated in his return.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 21 - Criminal Cases; Allowance of Expenses

Section 21. In the service of precepts in criminal cases, the officer shall be allowed the actual, reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in going or returning with the prisoner, and if he necessarily uses his own conveyance, he shall be allowed therefor twenty cents a mile for the distance traveled with the prisoner, except that in the service of such precepts of the district court of Chelsea, if he necessarily uses his own conveyance, he shall be allowed, if the distance traveled is less than ten miles, thirty cents a mile for the distance traveled, both ways; and if he uses the conveyance of another person, he shall be allowed the amount actually expended by him therefor; but no allowance for the use of a conveyance shall be made unless the officer certifies that it was necessary for him to use a conveyance and that he actually used it for the distance, and, if the conveyance of another was used, that he paid therefor the amount, stated in his certificate. If, in the service of a mittimus, the journey from the town where the prisoner is held to the town where he is to be committed can be made by railroad, no allowance shall be made for the use of any other conveyance, unless the court from which the mittimus is issued by general or special order has authorized the use thereof.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 22 - Attendance Upon Certain Courts

Section 22. The fee for attending before a district court or trial justice shall be one dollar a day, upon one warrant only, if there are two or more against the same defendant at the same time. If the defendant in a criminal case is brought in by a summons, the fee for attendance shall be the same as that taxed upon a warrant.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 23 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 23 - Examination of Sureties; Approval of Bonds

Section 23. The fees of magistrates for the examination of sureties and approval of bonds or for the taking of recognizances shall be in each case five dollars for the citation, if any, and the first day's hearing, and two dollars in addition for each adjournment thereof. These fees shall be paid in advance.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 24 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 24 - Bail Fees; Persons Authorized to Take Bail; Restrictions

Section 24. (a) The maximum fee to be charged by any person authorized to take bail or release on personal recognizance in the case of a person arrested for any misdemeanor or felony shall be $40.  (b) If, in addition to recognizing for a court within the territorial jurisdiction of the magistrate authorizing the release, the arrested person is being required to recognize for a court outside of such territorial jurisdiction, the person, so authorized, may charge an additional $5 for each such extraterritorial recognizance, but in no event shall the total fee for any release exceed $50.  (c) The person authorized to take bail who goes to the place of detention where the prisoner is held shall receive the fee before completing the determination of the terms of release, regardless of whether the prisoner ultimately recognizes out-of-court, and is the only person entitled to the compensation provided for in this section. Fee splitting arrangements are prohibited. No person authorized to take bail shall administer by telephone, or otherwise than in the physical presence of the affiant, any oath or affirmation required in the course of taking bail or releasing on personal recognizance. No person authorized to take bail shall delegate the setting or taking of bail or the setting or taking of release on personal recognizance to any other person.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 25 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 25 - Compensation of Jurors

Section 25. The compensation of traverse jurors impanelled to try cases of murder in the first degree shall be sixteen dollars, and that of all other traverse jurors and of grand jurors fourteen dollars, for each day's service; provided, however, that jurors held under restraint by order of the court shall, in cases of murder in the first degree, receive twenty-two dollars and, in all other cases, twenty dollars for each day's service while under restraint. All jurors shall receive for each day of actual attendance eight cents a mile for travel out and home, but not for such time as the jury is held under restraint, by order of the court, at the expense of the commonwealth. If the expense of a juror who attends court, necessarily and actually incurred for transportation out and home once in each day, exceeds the amount of the said allowance for travel, he shall be allowed the amount of such expense in lieu of the said travel allowance. If a grand or traverse juror is required to be in attendance for five or more consecutive days he shall receive his fees not later than the end of every fifth day of such attendance.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 26 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 26 - Inquests; Service of Process

Section 26. Officers who serve subpoenas or other processes in connection with inquests held by district courts shall be paid their fees and expenses by the commonwealth as in criminal cases, in the same manner as the fees of witnesses are paid in criminal cases in said courts.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 27 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 27 - Juvenile Offenders; Officer as a Witness

Section 27. In cases against juvenile offenders, an officer who attends as a witness at a place other than that of his residence may be allowed by the court or justice his increased necessary expenses, not exceeding the witness fee before such court or justice, and the reasonable necessary expense of serving a mittimus.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 29 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 29 - Witness Fees

Section 29. The fees for attending as a witness before the general court, the supreme judicial court, the superior court, the land court, a probate court or court of insolvency, a district court, county commissioners, a trial justice, a referee, an arbitrator, the division of industrial accidents or the board of conciliation and arbitration, or on any other occasion for which no express provision is made, or allowed to persons, except the debtor, who are examined under section eighty-two of chapter two hundred and sixteen, unless fraudulent conduct is charged and proved against them, shall be six dollars a day, and ten cents a mile for travel out and home; provided, that if the witness has a usual place of business or employment in the city or town where the court trial or hearing is held, travel shall be reckoned out and to such place of business or employment, and not out and home. Each witness shall certify in writing the amount of his travel and attendance.  Any person who at the request of the attorney general or a district attorney, for the purpose of assisting him in the investigation of any matter within his jurisdiction as such attorney general or district attorney, attends the attorney general at any place, or the office of such district attorney at a courthouse, shall receive the fees provided in the preceding paragraph for a witness attending the superior court and subject to the same provisions, except that the certificate required by the last sentence of said paragraph shall be accompanied by a voucher signed by the attorney general or the district attorney that such fees are due said person for his attendance as provided in this paragraph.  Expenses incurred by witnesses summonsed on behalf of a defendant determined to be indigent, as well as expenses incurred by witnesses summonsed on behalf of the commonwealth, as such expenses are determined in accordance with this section, shall be paid by the commonwealth after such witness has certified with the court the amount of his travel and attendance.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 30 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 30 - Witness Held in Jail

Section 30. A witness who is detained in jail under section forty-nine of chapter two hundred and seventy-six because of his inability to furnish sureties shall be allowed as a witness fee such sum as the court shall order, but not less than one dollar and fifty cents for each day of his detention.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 31 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 31 - Appraisers; Compensation

Section 31. The court shall determine the compensation of private persons who perform service required by law, or in the execution of legal process, if no other provision is made therefor.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 32 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 32 - Interpreters and Nonresident Witnesses

Section 32. District courts may allow reasonable compensation to interpreters for service rendered and to witnesses from without the commonwealth in criminal proceedings before them, which shall be paid by the commonwealth in the same manner as witness fees, and shall allow interpreters ordered by them to attend such proceedings before them but not called upon for service the sum of one dollar for each day of such attendance, which shall be paid in the manner aforesaid.
MA Gen L ch 262 § 33 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title VI - Costs and Fees|Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers|Section 33 - Witnesses in Delinquency Cases

Section 33. All laws in relation to the payment of witness fees and to the payment of expenses of officers in criminal cases shall apply in cases arising under sections forty-two to sixty-four, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and nineteen.