THE COURTS
Title 255—LOCAL COURT RULES
BUTLER COUNTY
Clerk of Courts' Schedule of Fees and Costs; Miscellaneous; Administrative Doc. No. 4-2024
[54 Pa.B. 1815]
[Saturday, April 6, 2024]
Clerk of Courts' Petition to Increase Fees and Costs Pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. § 1725.4 And Now, comes Lisa Weiland Lotz, Clerk of Courts of Butler County, by and through Leo M. Stepanian II, Esquire, Solicitor, and respectfully petitions this Court as follows:
1. Petitioner is the duly elected Clerk of Courts of the Common Pleas Court of Butler County, Pennsylvania.
2. Butler County is a county of the fourth class.
3. Act 36 of 2000 provides in pertinent part:
The amount of any fee or charge increased pursuant to paragraph (1) may be increased every three years, provided that the amount of the increase may not be greater than the percentage of increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Workers for the immediate three years preceding the last increase in the fee or charge.42 Pa.C.S. § 1725.4(a)(2).
4. The Clerk of Courts last sought approval for and this Court last granted approval for an increase in the fees and costs charged by the Clerk of Courts in May 2021.
5. Pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. § 1725.4(a)(2), the Clerk of Courts may request, and the President (Administrative) Judge may approve, an increase in the fees and costs charged by the Clerk of Courts based upon the increase in the Consumer Price Index for the period from May 2020 to April 2023.
6. Based upon the Consumer Price Index for Urban Workers (Wage Earners and Clerical Workers), the Consumer Price Index has increased 19.32% (May 2020 to April 2023).
7. Following hereto as Exhibit ''A'' is a proposed fee bill for the Clerk of Courts of Butler County, Pennsylvania that takes into account the increase in the Consumer Price Index previously set forth.
Wherefore, the Clerk of Courts of Butler County, Pennsylvania respectfully requests this honorable Court to authorize and adopt the schedule of fees and costs as proposed hereby.
LEO M. STEPANIAN, II,
Solicitor for the Clerk of Courts
Verification The undersigned has read the forgoing Pleading in this case. The statements of fact contained therein are true and correct to the best of my personal knowledge, information and belief.
This statement and verification is made subject to the penalties in 18 Pa.C.S. Section 4904 relating to unsworn falsification to authorities which provides that if I make knowingly false averments, I may be subject to criminal penalties.
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Dated: ______
Clerk of Courts' Schedule of Fees and Costs; Miscellaneous; Administrative Doc. No. 4-2024
Order of Court And Now, this 21 day of March, 2024, upon consideration of the Clerk of Courts' Petition to Increase Fees and Costs Pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 1725.4 It Is Hereby Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed, that:
1. The revised fee schedule submitted by the Clerk of Courts of Butler County, Pennsylvania, a copy of which is as follows hereto and incorporated herein, is approved.
2. The revised fee schedule approved by this Order of Court shall be effective on May 1, 2024.
3. The Clerk of Courts is hereby directed to immediately cause the publication of the revised fee schedule in the Butler County Legal Journal once a week for two (2) successive weeks, and to file a copy of the Proof of Publication of the advertisement at the previous term and docket number.
4. The Clerk of Courts shall file one (1) certified copy hereof with AOPC and distribute two (2) certified copies plus a diskette to the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
5. The Clerk of Courts is to distribute a copy of the fee schedule to each of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County and to the Butler County Bar Association.
6. Nothing contained herein shall prevent this Court to further revise the fee schedule approved by this Order of Court upon proper application made in accordance with law.
By the Court
S. MICHAEL YEAGER,
Principle Judge
Exhibit A
BUTLER COUNTY CLERK OF COURTS' FEE BILL
(Effective May 1, 2024)Criminal Filings
Misdemeanor and Felony Case During or After Trial . . . . . 277.50
Misdemeanor and Felony Case Before Trial (Plea or ARD) . . . . . 207.25
Summary Case . . . . . 42.75
Juvenile Case . . . . . 27.50
Appeal Fees
Summary Appeal/Nunc Pro Tunc Filing Fee (Non-Refundable) . . . . . 77.00
Appellate Court Appeal (Payable to Clerk of Courts) . . . . . 83.50
Appellate Court Appeal (Check Payable to Superior/Supreme/Cw. Court) . . . . . Current Rate
Liquor Control Board Appeals . . . . . 27.50
Bench Warrant/Bail Related Fees
Processing all types . . . . . 27.50
Cash Bonds . . . . . 69.00
Property Bonds . . . . . 69.00
Bail Forfeiture . . . . . 27.50
Bail Piece (Includes Certified Copy to Bondsman) . . . . . 42.50
Bench Warrant (Includes Certified Copy to Sheriff) . . . . . 42.50
Miscellaneous Filings/Fees
Automation Fee (All initiations 42 Pa.C.S.A. 1725.4(b)) . . . . . 5.00
Certified Copy . . . . . 14.00
Constable—Bond/Oath/I.D. Card . . . . . 27.50
Copies (per page) . . . . . 0.50
Criminal Search (per name) . . . . . 27.50
Exemplifications . . . . . 27.50
Expungement (per case) . . . . . 92.75
Facsimile (fax) Fee . . . . . 7.25
NSF Check/Cancelled Money Order/Credit-Debit Card Reversals . . . . . 30.00
Private Detective (Individual) Bond/Oath per year . . . . . 100.00
Private Detective (Corporate) Bond/Oath per year . . . . . 150.00
Miscellaneous Case . . . . . 27.50
Road Docket . . . . . 27.50
Subpoenas . . . . . 6.00
File Retrieval From Iron Mountain . . . . . Current Rate
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 24-460. Filed for public inspection April 5, 2024, 9:00 a.m.]
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