CODE OF VIRGINIA

SERVICES RENDERED IN COMMONWEALTH’S CASES (§ 17.1-266)

No clerk, sheriff or other officer shall receive payment out of the state
treasury for any services rendered in cases of the Commonwealth, whether in a
court of record or a court not of record, except as allowed by statute.
Localities shall be exempt from paying fees for services rendered by a clerk or
other court officer for cases, whether in a court of record or a court not of
record, when the locality is a party to a case commenced in a court serving that
locality or in any other jurisdiction when the localities have a reciprocal
waiver of fees agreement. Sheriffs may, in writing, grant a waiver of the
sheriff’s fee to one or more localities.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 14-98; 1964, c. 386, § 14.1-87; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 155;
1998, c. 872; 2007, c. 800.