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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-8 - Bill of costs; disbursements included

22A:2-8. Bill of costs; disbursements included
A party to whom costs are awarded or allowed by law or otherwise in any action, motion or other proceeding, in the Law Division or Chancery Division of the Superior Court is entitled to include in his bill of costs his necessary disbursements, as follows:
The legal fees of witnesses, including mileage for each attendance, masters, commissioners and other officers;
The costs of taking depositions when taxable, by order of the court;
The legal fees for publication where publication is required;
The legal fees paid for a certified copy of a deposition or other paper or document, or map, recorded or filed in any public office, necessarily used or obtained for use in the trial of an issue of fact or the argument of an issue of law, or upon appeal, or otherwise;
Sheriff's fees for service of process or other mandate or proceeding;
All filing and docketing fees and charges paid to the clerk of court;
Such other reasonable and necessary expenses as are taxable according to the course and practice of the court or by express provision of law, or rule of court.
L.1953, c. 22, p. 388, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-9 - Law Division of Superior Court; costs awarded

22A:2-9. Law Division of Superior Court; costs awarded
Costs awarded to any party in any action, motion or proceeding in the Law Division of the Superior Court, whether he be plaintiff, defendant, third-party plaintiff or in any manner a party therein, shall be as follows:
For all proceedings down to and including final judgment when there has been a trial of an issue of fact, fifty dollars ($50.00).
Upon the entry of judgment final, by default, or upon consent, stipulation, or admissions, or upon the pleadings, or by summary judgment or on dismissal, in all actions or proceedings, to the moving party, forty dollars ($40.00).
Upon a voluntary dismissal either by stipulation or by order of court, or in any proceeding which has not proceeded to final judgment, twenty dollars ($20.00).
Upon any other litigated or special motion, subsidiary or interlocutory, in addition to necessary disbursements as provided by section 22A:2-8 of this Title, not exceeding fifteen dollars ($15.00).
Upon an appeal to the Law Division of the Superior Court, ten dollars ($10.00).
In proceedings after judgment in aid of execution, if the court determines that the result of the examination shows that such proceedings were well-founded, it may direct that the moving party be allowed in addition to his necessary disbursements, as provided by section 22A:2-8 of this Title, fifteen dollars ($15.00).
If the examination shows that said proceedings were not well-founded, the court may direct that the party against whom such proceedings were taken be allowed, in addition to such disbursements, ten dollars ($10.00).
For each applying creditor in attachment, ten dollars ($10.00).
L.1953, c. 22, p. 388, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-10 - Chancery division of superior court; costs awarded.

22A:2-10 Chancery division of superior court; costs awarded.
22A:2-10. Chancery Division of Superior Court; costs awarded.
Upon the completion and determination of the following actions and proceedings in the Chancery Division of the Superior Court, the costs awarded to a party therein for the drawing of papers, including orders, writs and judgments, shall be as stated below:
Plaintiff's costs, foreclosure $ 50.00
Plaintiff's costs, partition 70.00
Plaintiff's and receiver's costs, receivership 125.00
Plaintiff's costs, receivership 62.50
Receiver's costs, receivership 62.50
Plaintiff's costs, divorce, dissolution of civil
union, nullity, custody 30.00
Plaintiff's costs, causes of action for other relief 65.00
Plaintiff's costs, incapacity action 47.50
Plaintiff's costs, sale of lands of minor
or incapacitated individual 50.00
Plaintiff's costs, release of dower or curtesy 50.00
Plaintiff's costs, mortgage lands of a minor or
incapacitated individual 50.00
Plaintiff's costs, interpleader 35.00
Plaintiff's costs, appointment of tax receiver 27.50
Plaintiff's costs, actions for payment of money
into court; to hold real estate; to limit creditors 22.50
Plaintiff's costs, action for appointment of
trustee or substituted trustee 33.50
Costs on contempt proceedings 25.00
Costs on application to fix dower or curtesy 22.50
Costs on application to pay moneys out of court 23.50
Costs on application for instructions, or to
approve account 30.00
Costs on application for writ of execution 10.00
Costs on application for relief from final judgment
or, in a matrimonial cause from judgment
nisi or order 20.00
Costs on application for writ of possession 30.00
Costs on application for alimony pendente lite,
attorney fee, suit money 20.00
Defendant's costs where final judgment
is taken by defendant 30.00
Defendant's costs where final judgment is
not taken by defendant 20.00
Costs upon any other litigated or special motion,
subsidiary or interlocutory, not heretofore
provided for 50.00
amended 2006, c.103, s.84; 2013, c.103, s.62.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-11 - Initial amount allowed in taxing costs in Chancery Division of Superior Court

22A:2-11. Initial amount allowed in taxing costs in Chancery Division of Superior Court
Initial amount allowed in taxing costs in Chancery Division of Superior Court.
In taxing costs in any proceeding in the Chancery Division of the Superior Court under section 22A:2-10 of this Title, where the matter does not proceed to final judgment, the attorney shall be allowed for any and all proceedings one-half the amount allowable to him under that section.
L.1953, c. 22, p. 391, s. 11. Amended by L.1953, c. 321, p. 1869, s. 1, eff. July 29, 1953.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-12 - Payment of fees in Chancery Division of Superio Court upon filing of first paper.

22A:2-12 Payment of fees in Chancery Division of Superio Court upon filing of first paper.
22A:2-12. Payment of fees in Chancery Division of Superior Court upon filing of first paper. Upon the filing of the first paper in any action or proceeding in the Chancery Division of the Superior Court, there shall be paid to the clerk of the court, for the use of the State, the following fees, which, except as hereinafter provided, shall constitute the entire fees to be collected by the clerk for the use of the State, down to the final disposition of the cause:
Receivership and partition, $200.00.
All other actions and proceedings except in probate cases and actions and proceedings for divorce or dissolution of a civil union, $200.00.
Actions and proceedings for divorce or dissolution of a civil union, $250.00, $25.00 of which shall be forwarded by the Clerk of the Superior Court as provided in section 2 of P.L.1993, c.188 (C.52:27D-43.24a).
Any person filing a motion in any action or proceeding shall pay to the clerk $30.00.
Amended 1965, c.76, s.2; 1968, c.124, s.2; 1970, c.107, s.2; 1975, c.340, s.2; 1980, c.80, s.2; 1991, c.177, s.8; 1993, c.188, s.1; 1996, c.52, s.3; 2002, c.34, s.28; 2003, c.117, s.41; 2006, c.103, s.85.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-13 - Answering, pleading or paper, fee

22A:2-13 Answering, pleading or paper, fee
22A:2-13. Each person other than the plaintiff filing an answering pleading or other answering paper in the Chancery Division of the Superior Court shall at the time of filing the first paper, pay to the clerk the sum of $135.00; which shall cover all fees payable therein except such as may be otherwise provided herein or by law or the rules of court.
L.1953, c.22, s.11; amended 1965, c.76, s.3; 1968, c.124, s.3; 1970, c.107, s.3; 1991, c.177, s.9; 1996, c.52, s.4; 2002, c.34, s.30.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-14 - Guardian ad litem; appointment after default in Chancery Division; compensation

22A:2-14. Guardian ad litem; appointment after default in Chancery Division; compensation
When a guardian ad litem is appointed after default in the Chancery Division of the Superior Court, such guardian shall be paid five dollars ($5.00) for his compensation and no more, unless the court shall otherwise order. The attorney for the moving party shall pay the said sum to the guardian ad litem, so appointed, at the time when a copy of such order is served upon the guardian ad litem.
L.1953, c. 22, p. 392, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-15 - Probate proceedings in Superior Court in Chancery Division; clerk's fees

22A:2-15. Probate proceedings in Superior Court in Chancery Division; clerk's fees
22A:2-15. For performing services in all probate proceedings in the Superior Court, Chancery Division, Probate Part there shall be paid to the surrogate of the county of venue for the use of the county the following fees which, except as hereinafter provided, shall constitute the entire fees to be collected by the surrogate for the use of the county, down to the final disposition of the cause:
Each action upon the filing of the first paper in the action, $135.00 and upon the filing of an answering pleading or other answering paper, $80.00.
Application for relief filed subsequent to final judgment, upon the filing of the first paper, $10.00.
ACCOUNTING
Auditing, stating, reporting and recording accounts of executors, administrators, guardians, trustees, assignees, as follows:
In estates up to and including $2,000.00, $50.00;
In estates from $2,000.01 to and including $10,000.00, $70.00;
In estates from $10,000.01 to and including $30,000.00, $85.00;
In estates from $30,000.01 to and including $65,000.00, $100.00;
In estates from $65,000.01 to $200,000.00-- 1/5 of 1%;
In estates exceeding $200,000.00-- 1/10 of 1%, but not less than $400.00.
For each page of accounting, in excess of one, $3.00.
In computing the amount of an estate for the purpose of fixing the fees of the surrogate, for auditing and reporting the account, the balance from the prior account shall be excluded.
No fees herein allowed shall be charged against the recipient of any pension, bounty or allowance for services of the surrogate in respect thereof, pursuant to N.J.S.3B:13-9 to 3B:13-14.
COMMISSIONS ON DEPOSITS
On commissions on deposits, including any deposit made pursuant to sections 31 and 32 of chapter 67, of the laws of 1948, if under $100.00, 1/2 of 1% of it; if over $100.00 and under $1,000.00, 1/4 of 1% on such excess; if over $1,000.00, 1/8 of 1% of such excess.
MISCELLANEOUS CHARGES
Minimum charge for all other papers or services by the surrogate, $5.00.
L.1953, c.22, s.11; amended 1965,c.76,s.4; 1968,c.124,s.4; 1970,c.107,s.4; 1977,c.57,s.1; 1980,c.80,s.3; 1991,c.177,s.10.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-16 - Recording documents and making copies in probate proceedings in Chancery Division; fees

22A:2-16. Recording documents and making copies in probate proceedings in Chancery Division; fees
The Clerk of the Superior Court shall receive the following fees for recording documents and making copies thereof in all probate proceedings in the Chancery Division.
When written in whole, per folio, fifteen cents ($0.15). When written and printed or typewritten in whole or in part with type of eight-point face and with not less than four-point space between the lines, or when written and printed or typewritten in whole or in part with type of more than eight-point face, per folio, fifteen cents ($0.15).
When printed or typewritten in whole or in part with type of less than eight-point face with less than four-point space between the lines, in broken measure, tabular, schedule or figure work, per folio, twenty cents ($0.20).
For official copies and abstracts of such instruments or documents from the records and files of the Superior Court, Chancery Division, per folio, twenty cents ($0.20).
L.1953, c. 22, p. 394, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-17 - Fees and allowances in undetermined and pending causes

22A:2-17. Fees and allowances in undetermined and pending causes
The fees to be paid to the Clerk of the Superior Court, and the allowances of costs therein, with respect to all undetermined and pending causes and proceedings begun prior to the effective date of this act, shall be those prescribed by this article. When the same cannot be applied, then the fees and costs shall be the same as were prescribed by law at the time such proceedings were commenced.
L.1953, c. 22, p. 395, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-18 - Additional fees in exceptional cases

22A:2-18. Additional fees in exceptional cases
In any cause or proceeding in which the papers filed with the Clerk of the Superior Court shall be exceptionally numerous or other work done by him shall be exceptionally onerous, he may make application to the court, on notice, for an order fixing and allowing a reasonable additional fee to be paid to him for the use of the State. The court, in each such case, may make such order fixing and allowing such additional fee, if any, as shall be deemed just and reasonable under the circumstances and directing how and by whom the same shall be paid.
L.1953, c. 22, p. 395, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-19 - Certified copies; fees

22A:2-19. Certified copies; fees
22A:2-19. Except as otherwise provided herein for probate proceedings in the Superior Court, the first copy of any order, judgment, pleading or other paper shall be certified by the Clerk of the Supreme Court or the Clerk of the Superior Court, as the case may be, and supplied to the attorney or litigant, free of charge, where such copy is furnished to the clerk for certification. All copies other than the first copy, supplied as aforesaid, shall be furnished upon the payment of $5.00 for the first five pages thereof, and $0.75 for each page in excess of five; provided, that a minimum charge of $5.00 shall be made for any such copy.
L.1953, c.22, s.11; amended 1991,c.177,s.11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-20 - Additional fees for certain services

22A:2-20. Additional fees for certain services
22A:2-20. The Clerk of the Supreme Court and the Clerk of the Superior Court are authorized and directed to charge the following additional fees:
For affixing the seal of the Court to any document, $5.00;
For an exemplification, $5.00;
The Clerk of the Superior Court is authorized and directed to charge the following additional fees:
For filing notice of appeal in any division of the Superior Court and forwarding copy to the Appellate Division or Supreme Court, $10.00;
The Clerk of the Superior Court is authorized and directed to charge the following additional fees in the Chancery Division:
For a warrant of satisfaction, $5.00;
For a master's certificate certifying his appointment, $5.00;
A minimum charge for all other papers or services by the clerk, $5.00;
Commissions on appeals accounts and deposits for security for costs--two per centum (2%) on one hundred dollars ($100.00) or less; one and one half per centum (1 1/2%) on any excess of one hundred dollars ($100.00);
Commissions on paying out trust fund accounts (including all funds, moneys or other assets brought into and deposited in court)--two and one half per centum (2 1/2%) on the first one hundred dollars ($100.00); two per centum (2%) on the next nine hundred dollars ($900.00); one and one half per centum (1 1/2%) on the excess over one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).
L.1953, c.22, s.11; amended 1991,c.177,s.12.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-21 - Attorneys responsible for fees

22A:2-21. Attorneys responsible for fees
Attorneys for the respective parties shall be liable and responsible for all fees charged by the Clerk of the Supreme Court and the Clerk of the Superior Court, unless the court otherwise directs.
L.1953, c. 22, p. 397, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-22 - State officer or state department, board, body or commission; no fees charged to

22A:2-22. State officer or state department, board, body or commission; no fees charged to
No charge shall be made by the Clerk of the Supreme Court or the Clerk of the Superior Court for the filing of any paper or the rendering of any service for which a fee is provided by this chapter when the party filing the paper or requesting the service is a State officer paid from State funds, or a State department, board, body or commission.
L.1953, c. 22, p. 397, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-23 - Waiver of collection of fee

22A:2-23. Waiver of collection of fee
The collection of any fee provided for by this chapter may be waived in particular circumstances by general rule of the Supreme Court or by special order of the Supreme Court, or by an order of any court made pursuant to authority granted by a rule of the Supreme Court.
L.1953, c. 22, p. 397, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-25 - Law division filing fees.

22A:2-25 Law division filing fees.
22A:2-25. Law Division filing fees
Upon the filing, entering or docketing with the deputy clerk of the Superior Court in the various counties of the herein-mentioned papers or documents by either party to any action or proceeding in the Law Division of the Superior Court, other than a civil action in which a summons or writ must be issued, he shall pay the deputy clerk of the court the following fees:
Entering of complaint or first paper of any action or proceeding ... $ 9.00
Filing complaint..............................................................$ 3.00
Filing answer or appearance............................................... $ 6.00
Filing any other pleading, any amended pleading or any
amendment to a pleading ...........................................................$ 3.00
Filing and entering each order or judgment of court,
including order to show cause....................................................$ 6.00
Filing and entering a voluntary dismissal, either by
stipulation or order of court.......................................................$ 7.50
Filing notice of appeal.....................................................$15.00
Filing proceedings or papers on appeal...................................$ 6.00
Filing any other paper or document not herein stated ................$ 4.50
Signing and sealing habeas corpus.......................................$ 7.50
Signing and issuing subpena..........................................................$ 1.50
amended 1965, c.123, s.4; 1980, c.58, s.1; 1985 c.422, s.1; 2019, c.269, s.15.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-26 - Motion fee

22A:2-26. Motion fee
Upon all motions, with or without notice, in the Law Division of the Superior Court, the moving party shall pay to the clerk of the said division .......... $ 9.00
This section shall not apply to an action in which a summons or writ must be issued.
L. 1953, c. 22, p. 400, s. 11. Amended by L. 1965, c. 123, s. 5; L. 1985, c. 422, s. 2, eff. Jan. 13, 1986.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-27 - Fees on appeals to Law Division of Superior Court; use

22A:2-27. Fees on appeals to Law Division of Superior Court; use
22A:2-27. In cases appealed to the Law Division of the Superior Court from any inferior court or tribunal, criminal or civil, the clerk of the division shall charge a fee of $75.00 for filing a notice of appeal, appeal papers and proceedings, including judgment in the Superior Court or order of dismissal. The clerk shall pay this $75.00 to the treasurer of the county in which the appeal is taken for the use by the county. After December 31, 1994, this $75.00 fee shall be paid to the clerk, for use by the State.
L.1953, c.22, s.11; amended 1965,c.123,ss.6,11; 1985,c.422,s.3; 1991,c.177,s.13; 1993,c.275,s.12.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-31 - Fees for probating will, granting administration or guardianship and filing and recording inventory in certain cases

22A:2-31. Fees for probating will, granting administration or guardianship and filing and recording inventory in certain cases
Whenever it shall appear that the estate, real and personal, of any testator, intestate, minor or ward, is less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), no fees shall be charged upon actions for probate of a will, granting administration or guardianship up to and including the letters issued and copies of such letters as well as the fees of filing and recording and with respect to an inventory, and whenever it shall appear that such estate does not exceed two hundred dollars ($200.00) the fees shall be one-half of those allowed by law; but if it shall afterwards appear in any case that the value of the estate, real and personal, exceeds or exceeded two hundred dollars ($200.00), then such estate shall be liable for and pay the balance of the fees that would have been collected had no deduction been made under the provisions of this section.
L.1953, c. 22, p. 412, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-32 - Persons dying while in service in time of war or emergency; fees for probating will or granting administration or guardianship in certain cases

22A:2-32. Persons dying while in service in time of war or emergency; fees for probating will or granting administration or guardianship in certain cases
Whenever it shall appear by affidavit of persons applying for letters testamentary, of administration or of guardianship that the estate, real and personal, of any testator, intestate, minor or ward, does not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), and that such testator or intestate died while in the active military or naval service of the United States in time of war, or in time of emergency, or that such minor or ward is the child of a person who died while in the active military or naval service of the United States in time of war, or in time of emergency, no fees shall be charged upon actions for the probate of a will in those cases, where any part of the estate of the testator is bequeathed or devised to the surviving spouse, the father or mother, the brothers or sisters or any of the lineal descendants of the testator, granting of administration or guardianship up to and including the letters issued and copies of such letters; but if it shall afterwards appear in any case that the value of the estate, real and personal, exceeds or exceeded one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), then such estate shall be liable for and pay the fees that would have been collected if this section were not law.
As used in this section the term "in time of emergency" shall mean and include any time after June twenty-third, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, and prior to the termination, suspension or revocation of the proclamation of the existence of a national emergency issued by the President of the United States on December sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, or termination of the existence of such national emergency by appropriate action of the President or Congress of the United States.
L.1953, c. 22, p. 412, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-33 - Fees for auditing, stating and allowance of accounts in certain cases

22A:2-33. Fees for auditing, stating and allowance of accounts in certain cases
Whenever it shall appear that the estate, real and personal, of any testator, intestate, minor or ward is less than two hundred dollars ($200.00), no fees shall be charged upon filing complaint and account, auditing, stating, reporting and recording or photostating of the account of the executor, trustee, administrator or guardian, and when it shall appear that such estate does not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00), such fees shall be one-half of those hereinbefore provided.
L.1953, c. 22, p. 413, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-34 - Fees paid by surrogates to Clerk of Superior Court

22A:2-34. Fees paid by surrogates to Clerk of Superior Court
From fees received by the surrogates there shall be paid to the Clerk of the Superior Court the following fees for services by him performed:
For recording the name of each testator, the year in which the will was proved, and filing the will, twenty-five cents ($0.25).
Recording the name of each intestate where administration has been granted and the year when granted, twelve cents ($0.12).
L.1953, c. 22, p. 414, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-35 - Fees on assignments for the benefit of creditors

22A:2-35. Fees on assignments for the benefit of creditors
22A:2-35. Fees on assignments for the benefit of creditors. The surrogate, as surrogate and deputy clerk of the Superior Court, shall receive for services with respect to an assignment for the benefit of creditors, for the use of the county in which the fees are collected, up to but not including any accounting, a fee of $75.00.
L.1953, c.22, s.11; amended 1988,c.109,s.2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-36 - Fees in other cases and costs in all cases

22A:2-36. Fees in other cases and costs in all cases
22A:2-36. Fees in other cases and costs in all cases. All other fees payable to the surrogate as a deputy clerk of the Superior Court, other than for adoption, and all costs to a party in any action, motion or proceeding in that part shall be the same as allowed for similar services in the Chancery Division of the Superior Court. All such fees shall be for the use of the county in which the fees are collected.
L.1953, c.22, s.11; amended 1988,c.109,s.3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-37.2 - Fees to officers designated by Assignment Judge to serve process.

22A:2-37.2 Fees to officers designated by Assignment Judge to serve process.
15. a. From the fees set forth in section 14 of P.L.1991, c.177 (C.22A:2-37.1), the clerk of the Special Civil Part of the Superior Court, Law Division, shall pay to officers designated by the Assignment Judge to serve process the following fees:
(1) Serving summons, notice or
third party complaint on one defendant $ 3.00
on every additional defendant $ 2.00
(2) Reserving summons or other
original process on any defendant $ 3.00
(3) Warrant to arrest, capias, or
commitment, for each defendant served $15.00
(4) Serving writ and summons in
replevin, taking bond and any inventory, against
one defendant $ 6.00
on every additional defendant $ 2.00
(5) Serving writ in replevin when
issued subsequent to service of summons,
against one defendant $ 5.00
on every additional defendant $ 2.00
(6) Serving order for possession
in replevin $ 4.00
(7) Serving writ of attachment and
making inventory, one defendant $ 4.00
on every additional defendant $ 2.00
(8) Serving and executing warrant
for possession in tenancy $10.00
(9) Every execution, or any order in
the nature of an execution, on a judgment, for
each defendant $ 2.00
b. For serving or executing any process, writ, order, execution, notice or warrant $ 7.00
c. In addition to the foregoing, the following fees for officers of the Special Civil Part shall be taxed in the costs and collected on execution, writ of attachment or order in the nature of any execution on any final judgment, or on a valid and subsisting levy of an execution or attachment which may be the effective cause in producing payment or settlement of a judgment or attachment:
(1) For advertising property
under execution or any order $10.00
(2) For selling property under
execution or any order $10.00
(3) On every dollar collected on
execution, writ of attachment, or any order, $ 0.10.
(4) In the event a judgment is vacated for any reason after a court officer has made a levy and thereafter the judgment is reinstated or the case is settled, the dollarage due the court officer on payment of the judgment amount or settlement amount again shall be taxed in the costs and collected.
d. In addition to the foregoing, the clerk of the Special Civil Part shall pay to officers designated by the Assignment Judge to serve wage executions on a federal agency an amount equal to the fee set by either the Administrative Director of the Courts pursuant to paragraph (5) of subsection a. of section 14 of P.L.1991, c.177 (C.22A:2-37.1) or set pursuant to subsection d. of that section, whichever then may be applicable, for each wage execution served.
L.1991, c.177, s.15; amended 2000, c.129, s.2; 2001, c.275; 2003, c.259, s.2; 2021, c.188, s.9.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-41 - Fees of witnesses and appraisers

22A:2-41. Fees of witnesses and appraisers
22A:2-41. For witnesses there shall be taxed in the costs in the Superior Court, Law Division, Special Civil Part, the fees prescribed by N.J.S.22A:1-4.
For each appraiser there shall be taxed in the costs in said court, a fee of one dollar ($1.00) for making an inventory and appraisement.
L.1953, c.22, s.11; amended 1991,c.91,s.270.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-42 - Attorney's or counsel's fees

22A:2-42. Attorney's or counsel's fees
22A:2-42. There shall be taxed by the clerk of the Superior Court, Law Division, Special Civil Part in the costs against the judgment debtor, a fee to the attorney of the prevailing party, of five per centum (5%) of the first five hundred dollars ($500.00) of the judgment, and two per centum (2%) of any excess thereof.
In actions of replevin the court shall allow the attorney of the prevailing party a fee of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than ten dollars ($10.00), to be taxed and collected as aforesaid.
Upon entry of any order adjudging a person in contempt for violation of any order of the court or upon any motion or application to the court made subsequent to the commencement of an action or proceeding in the Special Civil Part, the court, in its discretion, may award an attorney or counsel fee of not more than ten dollars ($10.00) to be paid in such manner as the court shall direct.
L.1953, c.22, s.11; amended 1991,c.91,s.271.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-43 - Fees in municipal courts

22A:2-43. Fees in municipal courts
22A:2-43. In civil causes, in municipal courts, all filing fees and other charges, all fees of constables, jurors, attorneys and appraisers, and all costs shall be the same as are provided by law for similar services in the Superior Court, Law Division, Special Civil Part.
L.1953, c.22, s.11; amended 1991,c.91,s.272.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-44 - Costs in penalty proceedings in all courts

22A:2-44. Costs in penalty proceedings in all courts
The costs recoverable in any proceeding in any court for the collection and enforcement of a penalty pursuant to the Penalty Enforcement Law (N.J.S. 2A:58-1 et seq.) shall be the same as in actions in the court and shall be recoverable by the plaintiff in the event of a judgment for the plaintiff. The fees to the court and the court officers shall be as provided for proceedings of a criminal nature in section 22A:3-4 of this Title.
L.1953, c. 22, p. 420, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-51 - Increased fees under P.L.1996, c.52, use; fund

22A:2-51. Increased fees under P.L.1996, c.52, use; fund
6. a. An amount equal to 95 percent of the increase in fees collected pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1996, c.52 (C.22A:2-51 et al.) shall be annually appropriated to the Department of Community Affairs for the provision to the poor of legal assistance in civil matters by Legal Services of New Jersey and to the Judiciary to fund 10 Superior Court judgeships, to supplement other funds appropriated from any other source in a fiscal year for these purposes. An appropriation pursuant to this section shall not be used to replace appropriations from other sources for these purposes.
b. An amount equal to 5% of the increase in fees collected pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1996, c.52 (C.22A:2-51 et al.) shall be annually appropriated to the Department of State, Higher Educational Services, to be allocated equally among Rutgers-Newark Law School, Rutgers-Camden Law School and Seton Hall Law School for clinical programs which provide free legal representation to the poor, to supplement other funds appropriated from any other source in a fiscal year for these purposes. An appropriation pursuant to this section shall not be used to replace appropriations from other sources for these purposes.
c. There is created in the Department of the Treasury a non-lapsing, revolving fund into which the Treasurer shall deposit annually an amount equal to the revenue derived from the increase in the fees collected pursuant to P.L.1996, c.52 (C.22A:2-51 et al.). Interest and other income earned on moneys deposited into this fund shall be credited to the fund. Moneys in the fund shall be appropriated and distributed annually exclusively for the purposes set forth in subsections a. and b. of this section. The State Treasurer shall have performed an audit of this fund biennially following the effective date of P.L.1996, c .52 (C.22A:2-51) and the results of the audit shall be included in the report required pursuant to subsection d. of this section.
d. The State Treasurer shall submit an annual report to the Legislature on the use of the fees collected pursuant to P.L.1996 , c.52 (C.22A:2-51 et al.) and deposited into the fund created pursuant to subsection c. of this section. The report shall be submitted to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the General Assembly, and the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, Assembly Appropriations Committee, Senate Judiciary Committee and Assembly Judiciary Committee, or their successors.
L.1996,c.52,s.6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:2-51.1 - Dedicated check off fee revenues for upgrading and modernizing services, capital plan.

22A:2-51.1 Dedicated check off fee revenues for upgrading and modernizing services, capital plan.
13. With regard to all increased check off fee charges, the revenues from which are dedicated to upgrading and modernizing the services provided by the offices of constitutional officers, pursuant to the provisions of P.L.2001, c.370 (C.22A:4-8.1 et al.) or any other provision of law:
a. Each constitutional officer shall prepare and submit to the board of chosen freeholders, for its approval, a five-year capital plan setting forth the capital purposes to which the check off fee revenues are to be applied, which purposes shall include improving recording and election related records when applicable;
b. Any dispute concerning the use of the check off fee revenues shall be submitted to and resolved by the assignment judge of the county, who shall be the final arbiter of such disputes;
c. Check off fee revenues shall not be used for budgetary reduction by the county and the Director of the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs shall require the amendment of any county budget that is not in compliance with the requirements of this subsection;
d. Interest earned on check off fee revenues held in a dedicated or trust account shall accrue to that account and shall be used only for the purposes of check off fee revenues.
L.2001,c.370,s.13.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:3-5 - Disposition of fees and costs

22A:3-5. Disposition of fees and costs
Money received in accordance with section 22A:3-4 of this Title by a municipal court or a court with jurisdiction in one municipality shall, unless otherwise provided by law, be accounted for by the court and paid to the municipal treasurer and to the officer respectively within thirty days from receipt thereof.
L.1953, c. 22, p. 424, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:3-6 - Imprisonment for failure to pay costs

22A:3-6. Imprisonment for failure to pay costs
A person who defaults in the payment of costs assessed against him in accordance with the provisions of section 22A:3-4 of this Title shall be liable to imprisonment in the county jail for a period of one day for each dollar of costs imposed.
L.1953, c. 22, p. 424, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:4-1a - Fees for miscellaneous documents.

22A:4-1a Fees for miscellaneous documents.
11. For services herein enumerated the State Treasurer shall collect the following fees:
a. For filing any original business certificate for which no other fee is fixed by statute or regulation, $125.
For filing any change or amendment to a previously filed document for which no other fee is fixed by statute or regulation, $75.
For issuing any certificate or filing any other document for which no other fee is fixed by statute or regulation, $25.00, except that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to:
(1) certificates of appointments for gubernatorial appointees;
(2) documents filed by public bodies under the "Senator Byron M. Baer Open Public Meetings Act," P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-6 et seq.);
(3) financial disclosures filed by State officials;
(4) oaths of office;
(5) resignation of office holders;
(6) documents filed by other State government entities indexed in the department's miscellaneous file.
b. For certification or exemplification of any document on file, $25.00.
c. For certification or exemplification of any signature on file, including the issuance of a certificate for proving a document outside the United States, also known as an apostille, $25.00; except that in cases of adoption of a child, the fee for an apostille shall be $5.00.
d. For filing a certified copy of an order of change of name, $50.00.
e. For a paper copy of any document on file, up to $0.10 per letter size page or smaller and up to $0.15 per legal size page or larger. If a roll of microfilm images is requested, the State Treasurer shall collect a fee of $1.00 for each image on the microfilm roll. If a microfiche copy of a microfiche is requested, $3.00.
f. For filing a proof of publication, $10.00.
L.1987, c.435, s.11; amended 2000, c.133; 2002, c.34, s.34; 2010, c.75, s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:4-2 - Fees of the surveyors general

22A:4-2. Fees of the surveyors general
For performing the services herein enumerated, the surveyors general of the western and eastern divisions of this State shall be entitled to receive the following fees and no more:
For each certificate under seal, fifty cents ($0.50).
For every search for any record or paper, twelve and one-half cents ($0.12 1/2 ).
For copies of any record or other writing, per folio, twelve and one-half cents ($0.12 1/2 ).
L.1953, c. 22, p. 427, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:4-3 - Commissioner of Banking and Insurance

22A:4-3. Commissioner of Banking and Insurance
For accepting service of process as the attorney for a foreign insurance company or association the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance shall be paid a service fee of two dollars ($2.00).
For accepting service of process as the attorney for a banking, saving, trust, guaranty, safe deposit, indemnity, mortgage, investment, or building and loan corporation or association organized under the laws of any other State or of any foreign government, there shall be paid a service fee of two dollars ($2.00).
For accepting service of process as the attorney for a foreign fraternal beneficiary association, the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance shall be paid a service fee of three dollars ($3.00).
For accepting service of process as the attorney for any person, co-partnership, association or corporation engaged in the business of making small loans, the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance shall be paid a service fee of five dollars ($5.00).
For accepting service of process as the attorney for a foreign building and loan association, the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance shall be paid a service fee of five dollars ($5.00).
The plaintiff in the action shall be entitled to recover the amount of the service fee so paid, as part of the taxable costs if he prevails in the action.
L.1953, c. 22, p. 428, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:4-4.1 - Fees for services of county clerks and registers.

22A:4-4.1 Fees for services of county clerks and registers.
2. County clerks and registers of deeds and mortgages, in counties having such offices, shall charge for the services herein enumerated the following fees:
Fee
For recording veteran's discharge papers No fee
For recording any instrument:
First page $30.00
Each additional page or part thereof $10.00
Each rider, insertion, addition, or any map,
plat or sketch filed or recorded pursuant
to subsection (c) of section 2 of P.L.1957,
c.130 (C.48:3-17.3) $10.00
For entering the marginal notation of an order,
judgment, statement or warrant discharging,
annulling a notice of lis pendens and for
filing such order, judgment or statement $10.00
For filing a lis pendens foreclosure $30.00
Notation $10.00
For preparing and transmitting to the assessor,
collector, or other custodian of the assessment
map of any taxing district, the abstract of an
instrument evidencing title to realty $10.00
For entering the marginal notation of a discharge
or release of a New Jersey building and loan
or savings and loan mortgage and forwarding
abstract $10.00
For entering the marginal notation of a discharge,
assignment, postponement or release of a
mortgage, other than building and loan and
savings and loan mortgages $10.00
For the cancellation of any mortgage $20.00
For a marginal notation of the discharge of a
mortgage in counties where mortgages are
indexed under a system requiring a duplication
of indices and description $10.00
For filing and recording notice of federal tax
lien or other federal lien or certificate
discharging such lien $25.00
For filing a notice of settlement $20.00
For filing each map, plat, plan or chart
(except when presented by the State or
its agencies or filed pursuant to subsection (c) of
section 2 of P.L.1957, c.130 (C.48:3-17.3)) $55.00
For recording tax sale certificate, except by
municipalities, or a redemption or assignment
of tax sale certificate, first page $30.00
Each additional page or part thereof $10.00
Certified copy of veteran's discharge No fee
For indexing any recorded instrument in excess
of 5 parties, per each name in excess of 5 $6.00
For recording tax sale certificate, lien, deed,
or related instrument by a municipality $8.00
For recording vacations or dedications of roads,
first page $30.00
Each additional page or part thereof $10.00
For disclaimers $15.00
For reimbursement agreements No fee
L.1965, c.123, s.2; amended 1980, c.58, s.3; 1981, c.443, s.1; 1985, c.422, s.5; 1997, c.412, s.6; 2001, c.370, s.4; 2003, c.117, s.38; 2007, c.144.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:4-4.2 - "New Jersey Public Records Preservation Account."

22A:4-4.2 "New Jersey Public Records Preservation Account."
39. a. There is established the "New Jersey Public Records Preservation Account," a dedicated account within the Department of the Treasury. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, monies received by a county clerk attributable solely to the amount of increases to the fees imposed pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1965, c.123 (C.22A:4-4.1) shall be paid by the county clerk to the Treasurer for deposit in the New Jersey Public Records Preservation Account, two dollars of which shall be allocated for grants to counties and municipalities for the management, storage and preservation of public records and three dollars of which shall be allocated to the Division of Archives and Records Management within the Department of State for the management, storage and preservation of public records.
b. The State Division of Archives and Records, in consultation with the State Records Committee, may, pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, make, adopt, amend, or repeal such rules and regulations as the division finds necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.
L.2003,c.117,s.39.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:4-6 - Fee of county clerk for court attendance

22A:4-6. Fee of county clerk for court attendance
22A:4-6. For attending, by deputy or in person, the daily sessions of the Law Division of the Superior Court held in the county, the county clerk shall receive per day three dollars ($3.00).
L.1953, c.22, s.11; amended 1991,c.91,s.274.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:4-8.1 - County treasurer responsible for fees of sheriffs, use.

22A:4-8.1 County treasurer responsible for fees of sheriffs, use.
6. a. The county treasurer shall be responsible for all fees received by or deposited with the county sheriff pursuant to N.J.S.22A:4-8. The county sheriff shall account to the county treasurer for all these fees.
b. The county treasurer shall deposit into a trust fund dedicated to the sheriff's office $2.00 of each fee over the amount of $3.00 received for a service enumerated in N.J.S.22A:4-8. Such sums shall be deposited within 10 days of receipt by the county treasurer. Monies in the trust fund shall be used to upgrade and modernize the services provided by their offices. As used in this section, "to upgrade and modernize the services" shall not include the costs associated with employing personnel and shall not include offset of existing salary or new positions. The monies in the trust fund shall not be used for budgetary reduction by the counties.
c. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, monies received by a county sheriff attributable solely to the amount of fee increases for services enumerated in N.J.S.22A:4-8 pursuant to the amendments set forth in section 5 of P.L.2001, c.370, that exceed in any year the amount by which the annual minimum salary of the sheriff fixed pursuant to N.J.S.40A:9-104 exceeds the amount of the county sheriff's salary in effect on November 1, 2000, shall be used for budgetary reduction by the county and shall be reflected as a county tax levy reduction.
L.2001,c.370,s.6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:4-8.2 - Preparation of annual budget request by county sheriff.

22A:4-8.2 Preparation of annual budget request by county sheriff.
9. A county sheriff shall prepare the annual budget request for the county sheriff's department pursuant to the requirements of section 3 of P.L.2015, c.249 (C.40A:4-45.45b).
L.2015, c.249, s.9.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 22A - Fees and Costs › Section 22A:4-9 - Subpoenas issued on application of bar associations; no fee

22A:4-9. Subpoenas issued on application of bar associations; no fee
Whenever any duly authorized ethics committee of a county or State bar association which has been recognized as such by the Supreme Court shall require the service of a process of subpoena issued pursuant to section 22A:2-4 of this Title, every sheriff or other officer serving said process shall not require the payment of any fee for making such service.
L.1953, c. 22, p. 436, s. 11.