General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 262 Fees of Certain Officers
- Massachusetts General Laws - Justices of the peace; enumeration of fees - Chapter 262, Section 1
The fees of justices of the peace shall be as follows: For a subpoena for one or more witnesses, ten cents. For taking a deposition,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fees of clerks of district and Boston municipal court departments in civil actions - Chapter 262, Section 2
The fees of the clerks of the district and Boston municipal court departments of the trial court in civil actions, shall be as follows: For...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2004, 309, Sec. 1 - Chapter 262, Section 2A
Repealed, 2004, 309, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Special justices - Chapter 262, Section 3
A special justice, when not holding court shall be paid by the commonwealth two dollars for each summons or process issued by him, and for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Child support collection services; fee - Chapter 262, Section 3A
The district court department shall impose a fee for child support collection services furnished under chapter two hundred and seventy-three, two hundred and seventy-three A...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fees of clerks of supreme judicial, county and appeals courts - Chapter 262, Section 4
The fees of the clerks of the supreme judicial court for the commonwealth and for each of the counties and for the appeals court shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Clerks of superior court department - Chapter 262, Section 4A
The fees of clerks of court of the superior court department of the trial court shall be as follows: for the entry in the superior...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Uniform schedule of fees - Chapter 262, Section 4B
[ Text of section effective until July 11, 2013. For text effective July 11, 2013, see below.]The court administrator of the trial court, shall, subject...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Surcharge on filing fees - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2004, 310, Sec. 1 - Chapter 262, Section 4D
Repealed, 2004, 310, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Copies provided by clerks - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Record of judgment; additional fees - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Manner of collection - Chapter 262, Section 7
Clerks of the courts shall collect all fees in advance.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and constables; enumeration of fees - Chapter 262, Section 8
The fees of sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and constables shall be as follows: (a) for the service of civil process: (1) for service of an original...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual accounts of deputy sheriffs and constables - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Process; service; return by mail - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conveyance; necessity of certificate - Chapter 262, 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,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Leaving copy of writ - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Deputy sheriff; attendance upon meetings of county commissioners - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Precepts for elections; subpoenas of general court; service - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Arrest on mesne process and supplementary proceedings - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Copies of process - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Service of process issued by land court - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Execution of ejectment; service - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Officers; duty to specify items of fees - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Endorsement of fees; certificate of use of conveyance; penalty - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Search for person named in process - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Criminal cases; allowance of expenses - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attendance upon certain courts - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of sureties; approval of bonds - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bail fees; persons authorized to take bail; restrictions - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Compensation of jurors - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inquests; service of process - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Juvenile offenders; officer as a witness - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 1076, Sec. 14 - Chapter 262, Section 28
Repealed, 1971, 1076, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Witness fees - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Witness held in jail - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appraisers; compensation - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interpreters and nonresident witnesses - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Witnesses in delinquency cases - Chapter 262, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Town clerks; enumeration of fees - Chapter 262, Section 34
Unless otherwise established in a town by town meeting action and in a city by city council action; and in a town with no town...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1981, 684, Sec. 19 - Chapter 262, Section 34A
Repealed, 1981, 684, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Marriages - Chapter 262, Section 35
The fee for lawfully solemnizing and certifying a marriage shall not exceed $100 if performed in the justice of the peace’s home community or $150...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certification - Chapter 262, Section 36
The fee for copies of any official papers or articles of organization certified by the state secretary shall be determined annually by the commissioner of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Records or papers; examination - Chapter 262, Section 37
Every person upon whose application an examination of records or papers is made by direction of the state secretary shall pay to the secretary therefor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Registers of deeds’ enumeration of fees - Chapter 262, Section 38
Except as otherwise provided, the fees of the registers of deeds to be paid when an instrument is recorded shall be as follows: For entering...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Land court; numeration of fees - Chapter 262, Section 39
The fees payable under chapter one hundred and eighty-five shall be as follows: For the entry of every original petition, complaint or writ and transmitting...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Registers of probate and family court; enumeration of fees - Chapter 262, Section 40
[ Text of section applicable as provided by 2012, 140, Sec. 66.]The fees of the registers of the probate and family court, shall be as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Child support collection services; fee - Chapter 262, Section 40A
The probate and family court department shall impose a fee for child support collection services furnished under chapter two hundred and eight, two hundred and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notaries public; enumeration of fees - Chapter 262, Section 41
The fees of notaries public shall be as follows: For the protest of a bill of exchange, order, draft or check for non-acceptance or non-payment,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commissioners in other states; enumeration of fees - Chapter 262, Section 42
The fees of commissioners appointed under section four of chapter two hundred and twenty-two shall be as follows: For administering oaths and certifying the same...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Construction - Chapter 262, Section 43
The fees of public officers for any official duty or service shall, except as otherwise provided, be at the rate prescribed in this chapter for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Copies - Chapter 262, Section 44
The department of public utilities or the department of telecommunications and cable may charge a fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certified copies of vital records; exemption - Chapter 262, Section 44A
The fee for a certified copy of a birth, marriage or death record issued by the office of the commissioner of public health shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Page defined - Chapter 262, Section 45
A page, when used as the measure of computation, shall mean two hundred and twenty-four words.
- Massachusetts General Laws - List of fees; manner of posting - Chapter 262, Section 46
Each of the officers before mentioned shall always keep posted in a conspicuous and convenient place in his office a printed or written list of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Copies of records concerning veterans; furnishings without charge - Chapter 262, Section 46A
No fee for a copy of any record relating to the birth, death, marriage, divorce, adoption or change of name of any veteran, as defined...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Criminal cases; return of expense under oath - Chapter 262, Section 47
No fees shall be allowed upon the return of an officer upon a precept in a criminal case, in which expenses are charged, unless every...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Criminal cases; service of several processes on single defendant; allowance of fees - Chapter 262, Section 48
If more than one criminal process is served upon the same defendant on the same day, or if two or more prisoners are conveyed at...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Mittimus; fees for issuance or service; limitations - Chapter 262, Section 49
No fee shall be allowed to a trial justice for issuing more than one mittimus, nor to an officer for the service of more than...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Salaried officers; limitation on acceptance of fees; penalty - Chapter 262, Section 50
No officer in attendance on any court, sheriff, deputy sheriff, jailer, constable, city marshal or other police officer who receives a salary or an allowance...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Criminal cases; additional fees and expenses - Chapter 262, Section 51
The fees and expenses of officers, other than those named in section fifty, in a criminal case, shall be paid by the commonwealth.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec. 276 - Chapter 262, Section 52
Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attendance of police officers on vacation, furlough or day off as witnesses; criminal or juvenile cases - Chapter 262, Section 53
Any police officer on duty at night, on vacation, furlough or on a day off, who attends as a witness in a criminal case pending...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Police officers as witnesses outside place of residence; criminal, juvenile or superior courts - Chapter 262, Section 53A
Any police officer named in section fifty and section fifty-three who attends as a witness at a place other than his residence in a criminal...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Witness fees of uniformed members of department of state police - Chapter 262, Section 53B
Any uniformed member of the department of state police, appointed under section ten of chapter twenty-two C, on duty at night, or on vacation or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Compensatory time off to police officers - Chapter 262, Section 53C
Any police officer, including an officer of the department of state police appointed under section ten of chapter twenty-two C, on duty at night or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1970, 546 - Chapter 262, Section 54
Repealed, 1970,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Railroad police - Chapter 262, Section 55
Railroad police shall not be entitled to any fees for attendance upon a trial as witnesses for the commonwealth, but they may be allowed their...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Witness fees of public officers; disallowance - Chapter 262, Section 56
Except as otherwise provided, an officer of the commonwealth whose salary is fixed by law, or any employee of the commonwealth receiving regular compensation therefrom...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public officers as witnesses; allowance of expenses - Chapter 262, Section 57
If it appears on oath that a salaried officer of the commonwealth has attended court as a witness in behalf of the commonwealth, at a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty - Chapter 262, Section 58
Whoever receives a witness fee or allowance for increased necessary expenses in violation of any provision of the three preceding sections shall be punished by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Witness in multiple criminal cases; apportionment of fees - Chapter 262, Section 59
If witnesses are in attendance in two or more criminal cases pending at the same time before the same court, they shall not be allowed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Witnesses’ fees; refusal in certain cases - Chapter 262, Section 60
If, on the trial of a criminal case, it appears that a witness has induced the defendant to commit the crime with which he is...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Witness certificates; purchase of orders, etc., by officers prohibited - Chapter 262, Section 61
A sheriff, deputy sheriff or other officer who takes the certificates of witnesses in criminal cases shall not purchase or discount or have any interest...
- Massachusetts General Laws - False certificates of witnesses; penalty - Chapter 262, Section 62
Whoever, with intent to defraud, signs or procures to be signed a certificate of attendance or travel as a witness before a court, or reference...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delinquent magistrate; refusal of fees - Chapter 262, Section 63
If the administration of justice or the progress of business in criminal proceedings is delayed, obstructed or prevented by the negligence of a magistrate in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Complainant; refusal of fees - Chapter 262, Section 64
If the court finds that a complaint in a criminal case is unfounded, frivolous or malicious, it may refuse to allow any fees to the
Last modified: September 11, 2015