Michigan Compiled Laws 236-1961-25 Chapter 25 Fees (600.2501...600.2591)

• Section 600.2501 Fees; Allowance.
  For the services mentioned in this chapter, hereafter done or performed in the several courts in this state, by the officers thereof, or in...
• Section 600.2504 Fees; Special Allowance.
  The allowance of any fees by this chapter, shall not apply to any case where special provision is otherwise made by law for any...
• Section 600.2507 Documents; State Officers; Request For Searches And Obtaining Certified Copies; Fees.
  (1) The secretary of state, the auditor general, the state treasurer, and the attorney general may require searches in the respective offices of each...
• Section 600.2510 “page” Defined; Compliance With Format Prescribed By State Court Administrative Office.
  (1) When used as a measure for computing fees or compensation, “page” is defined as follows: a page shall consist of 25 lines written...
• Section 600.2513 Allowable Fees, Compensation, Or Reward For Service.
  A judge of any court, sheriff, bailiff, district court magistrate, or other officer, or other person except attorneys at law to whom any fees...
• Section 600.2516 Fees; For Services Actually Rendered.
  No fee or compensation allowed by law, shall be demanded or received by any officer or person for any service, unless such service was...
• Section 600.2519 Fees; Violation; Misdemeanor; Civil Liability; Forfeiture Of Office.
  A violation of either section 2513 or 2516 shall be deemed a misdemeanor; and the person guilty thereof shall be liable to the party...
• Section 600.2522 Fees; Taxation For Services Actually Rendered.
  No fee shall be taxed for services as having been rendered by any attorney, clerk, sheriff, or other officer, in the progress of a...
• Section 600.2525 Fees; Receipt; Liability For Refusal.
  Every officer, upon receiving any fees for any official duty or service, shall, if required by the person paying the same, make out in...
• Section 600.2528 Repealed. 1993, Act 189, Imd. Eff. Oct. 8, 1993.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to fees to clerk of circuit court in county of less than 100,000.
• Section 600.2529 Fees Paid To Clerk Of Circuit Court; Payment In Full; Payment Of Fees To County Treasurer; Deposit And Use To Fund Certain Services; Waiving Or Suspending Fees; Affidavit Of Indigency Or Inability To Pay; Court Order To Pay All Or Part Of Fee To Other Party; Payment Of Fee Not Required.
  (1) In the circuit court, the following fees shall be paid to the clerk of the court: (a) Before filing a civil action, including...
• Section 600.2530 Deposit Of Fees In Friend Of The Court Fund; Exception; Appropriation By County Board Of Commissioners; Remitting Sums Collected To State; Appropriation By Legislature; Remittance To Law Enforcement Agency.
  (1) Except in any judicial circuit in which employees serving in the circuit court are employees of the state judicial council, the county treasurer...
• Section 600.2530a Repealed. 1992, Act 234, Eff. Mar. 31, 1993.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to remittance of revenue to the state treasurer.
• Section 600.2531 Oath Of Office; Administration Without Fee.
  No fee may be charged by any officer, for administering the oath of office to any member of the legislature, to any military officer,...
• Section 600.2534 Publication Of Legal Notice, Order, Citation, Summons, Advertisement, Or Other Matter; Rates.
  (1) For publishing a legal notice or an order, citation, summons, advertisement, or other matter arising out of judicial proceedings required by law to...
• Section 600.2537 Repealed. 1993, Act 189, Imd. Eff. Oct. 8, 1993.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to jury fees.
• Section 600.2538 Payments Of Support Or Maintenance Collected By Friend Of The Court Or State Disbursement Unit; Fee; Notice; Contempt For Failure Or Refusal To Pay Fee; Centralized Receipt And Disbursement Of Support; Creation Of Attorney General's Operations Fund; “state Disbursement Unit” Or “sdu” Defined.
  (1) For services provided that are not reimbursable under the provisions of part D of title IV of the social security act, 42 USC...
• Section 600.2540 Compensation Of Juror For Attendance On Inquest.
  Each juror sworn before any medical examiner or judge, on an inquest taken by either of them on view of any dead body, is...
• Section 600.2543 Circuit Court Reporters Or Recorders; Fees For Transcripts; Fees As Part Of Taxable Costs.
  (1) The circuit court reporters or recorders are entitled to demand and receive per page for a transcript ordered by any person the sum...
• Section 600.2546 Certified Copies, Exemplifications Of Records, Pleadings, And Proceedings; Fee.
  Except as otherwise provided by law, in the circuit court, district court, or probate court, for all certified copies, and exemplifications of records, pleadings...
• Section 600.2549 Depositions And Certified Copies; Fees Taxable As Costs.
  Reasonable and actual fees paid for depositions of witnesses filed in any clerk's office and for the certified copies of documents or papers recorded...
• Section 600.2552 Witness Fees; Traveling Expenses; Attorneys As Witnesses; Incarcerated Witness; Inquests; Per-mile Rate Of Reimbursement.
  (1) A witness who attends any action or proceeding pending in a court of record shall be paid a witness fee of $12.00 for...
• Section 600.2555 Process Server; Traveling Fees.
  A person authorized by this act or supreme court rule to serve process or a paper issued by or filed with a court in...
• Section 600.2558 Fees Of Sheriff; Increase; Mileage; Liability.
  (1) The sheriff is entitled to the fees provided in this section and section 2559. (2) The following fees of the sheriff are allowed:...
• Section 600.2559 Fees For Service Of Process; Fee For Process With Incorrect Address; Mileage; Fee For Advertising; Liability; Charging Fee In Excess Of Law; Tax Costs; "Order For The Seizure Of Property" Defined.
  (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (8), the following is the schedule of fees allowed for process or papers served out of...
• Section 600.2561 Coroners; Compensation Or Fees.
  Coroners shall be entitled to such compensation as shall be determined by the board of supervisors, or to the following fees: (1) For all...
• Section 600.2564 Repealed. 2003, Act 238, Eff. Apr. 1, 2004.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to fees of notaries public.
• Section 600.2567 Fees Of Register Of Deeds; Imposition Of Fee By Charter County; "Page" Defined.
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (3), a register of deeds is entitled to the following fees, which are not taxable as costs except...
• Section 600.2567a Fee For Recording Instrument; Amount And Payment; Additional To Other Fees; Remittance And Disposition Of Fees; Limitation; Applicability Of Section; “county Plan” Defined.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4), the county register of deeds shall collect a fee for recording any instrument. Before January 1,...
• Section 600.2568 Automation Fund.
  (1) Each county in this state shall establish an automation fund, and that fund shall receive money deposited by the register of deeds of...
• Section 600.2570 Fees Of Appraisers; Mileage.
  All appraisers of property taken on any writ of attachment, and sheriffs' aids in criminal cases or in the execution of legal process, where...
• Section 600.2573 Repealed. 1974, Act 297, Eff. Apr. 1, 1975.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to fees of circuit court commissioners.
• Section 600.2576 Counties Over 1,000,000; Proceedings Relating To Realty; Fees; Dispositions.
  (1) Before any action or proceeding for the recovery of possession of lands and buildings shall be commenced before referees, in counties having a...
• Section 600.2579 Supreme Court Crier; Fees.
  For the service of all orders, processes or writs issued from the supreme court, the supreme court crier shall collect for such service the...
• Section 600.2582 Service On Corporation And Securities Commission; Fee.
  If service on a corporation is made by service on the corporation and securities commission, there shall be paid to the corporation and securities...
• Section 600.2591 Frivolous Civil Action Or Defense To Civil Action; Awarding Costs And Fees To Prevailing Party; Definitions.
  (1) Upon motion of any party, if a court finds that a civil action or defense to a civil action was frivolous, the court...

Last modified: October 10, 2016