2023 Indiana Code › Title 33. Courts and Court Officers › Article 34. Marion County Small Claims Courts › Chapter 8. Fees and Costs › 33-34-8-3. Payment, Distribution, and Deposit of Costs and Fees

Sec. 3. (a) Payment for all costs made as a result of proceedings in a small claims court shall be to the _______ Township of Marion County Small Claims Court (with the name of the township inserted). The court shall issue a receipt for all money received on a form numbered serially in duplicate.
(b) This subsection applies only to a low caseload court (as defined in section 5 of this chapter). All township docket fees and late fees received by the court shall be paid to the township trustee at the close of each month.
(c) This subsection does not apply to a low caseload court. This subsection applies to all other township small claims courts in Marion County. One dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) of the township docket fee shall be paid to the township trustee of each low caseload court at the end of each month. The remaining township docket fees and late fees received by the court shall be paid to the township trustee at the close of each month.
(d) The court shall:
(1) semiannually distribute to the auditor of state:
(A) all automated record keeping fees (IC 33-37-5-21) received by the court for deposit in the homeowner protection unit account established by IC 4-6-12-9 and the state user fee fund established under IC 33-37-9;
(B) all public defense administration fees collected by the court under IC 33-37-5-21.2 for deposit in the state general fund;
(C) sixty percent (60%) of all court administration fees collected by the court under IC 33-37-5-27 for deposit in the state general fund;
(D) all judicial insurance adjustment fees collected by the court under IC 33-37-5-25 for deposit in the state general fund;
(E) seventy-five percent (75%) of all judicial salaries fees collected by the court under IC 33-37-5-26 for deposit in the state general fund; and
(F) one hundred percent (100%) of the pro bono legal services fees collected before July 1, 2025, by the court under IC 33-37-5-31 for deposit in the pro bono legal services fund established by IC 33-37-5-34; and
(2) distribute monthly to the county auditor all document storage fees received by the court.
The remaining twenty-five percent (25%) of the judicial salaries fees described in subdivision (1)(E) shall be deposited monthly in the township general fund of the township in which the court is located. The county auditor shall deposit fees distributed under subdivision (2) into the clerk's record perpetuation fund under IC 33-37-5-2.
(e) The court semiannually shall pay to the township trustee of the township in which the court is located the remaining forty percent (40%) of the court administration fees described under subsection (d)(1)(C) to fund the operations of the small claims court in the trustee's township.
[Pre-2004 Recodification Citation: 33-11.6-9-1.]
As added by P.L.98-2004, SEC.13. Amended by P.L.176-2005, SEC.3; P.L.174-2006, SEC.9; P.L.122-2008, SEC.2; P.L.182-2009(ss), SEC.391; P.L.136-2012, SEC.13; P.L.170-2015, SEC.15; P.L.39-2017, SEC.2; P.L.165-2021, SEC.191; P.L.174-2022, SEC.60; P.L.201-2023, SEC.258.