1. The sheriff shall collect the following fees:
a. For serving a notice and returning it, for the first person served, thirty dollars, and for
each additional person, thirty dollars, except that the fee for serving additional persons in the
same household shall be twenty dollars for each additional service, or if the service of notice
cannot be made or several attempts are necessary, the repayment of all necessary expenses
actually incurred by the sheriff while attempting in good faith to serve the notice.
b. For each warrant served, thirty-five dollars, and the repayment of necessary expenses
incurred in executing the warrant, as sworn to by the sheriff, or if service of the warrant
cannot be made, the repayment of all necessary expenses actually incurred by the sheriff
while attempting in good faith to serve the warrant.
c. For serving and returning a subpoena, for each person served, thirty-five dollars, and
the necessary expenses incurred while serving subpoenas in criminal cases or cases relating
to hospitalization of persons with mental illness.
d. For summoning a grand or trial jury, all necessary and actual expenses incurred by the
sheriff.
e. For summoning a jury to assess the damages to the owners of lands taken for works of
internal improvement, two hundred dollars per day, and necessary expenses incurred. This
subsection does not allow a sheriff to make separate charges for different assessments which
can be made by the same jury and completed in one day of ten hours.
f. For serving an execution, attachment, order for the delivery of personal property,
injunction, or any order of court, and returning it, thirty dollars.
g. For making and executing a certificate or deed for lands sold on execution, fifty dollars,
or for making and executing a bill of sale for personal property sold, thirty dollars.
h. For the time necessarily employed in making an inventory of personal property
attached or levied upon, twenty dollars per hour.
i. For a copy of any paper required by law, made by the sheriff, fifty cents.
j. Mileage at the rate specified in section 70A.9 in all cases required by law, going and
returning. Mileage fees do not apply where provision is made for expenses, and both mileage
and expenses shall not be allowed for the same services and for the same trip. If the sheriff
transports one or more persons by auto to a state institution or any other destination required
by law or if one or more legal papers are served on the same trip, the sheriff is entitled to one
mileage, the mileage cost of which shall be prorated to the persons transported or papers
served. However, in serving original notices in civil cases and in serving and returning a
subpoena, the sheriff shall be allowed mileage in each action where the original notice or
subpoena is served, with a minimum mileage of one dollar for each service. The sheriff may
refuse to serve any legal processes in civil cases until the fees and estimated mileage for
service have been paid.
k. For setting a sale of property, seventy-five dollars.
l. For conveying one or more persons to a state, county, or private institution by order
of court or commission, necessary expenses for the sheriff and the person conveyed and
twenty-five dollars per hour for the time necessarily employed in going to and from the
institution, the expenses and hourly rate to be charged and accounted for as fees. If the
sheriff needs assistance in taking a person to an institution, the assistance shall be furnished
at the expense of the county.
m. Forservingawarrantfortheseizureofintoxicatingliquors,tendollars; fortheremoval
and custody of the liquor, actual expenses; for the destruction of the liquor under the order
of the court, ten dollars and actual expenses; for posting and leaving notices in these cases,
ten dollars and actual expenses.
n. For posting a notice or advertisement, ten dollars.
o. For delivering prisoners under a change of venue, the fee authorized under section
815.8.
p. For the necessary time employed in attending the service of a writ, twenty-five dollars
per hour.
2. The mileage fees allowed by law may be retained by the sheriff as an addition to the
sheriff’s annual salary. In counties having a population of one hundred thousand or more,
the county may contract with the sheriff for the use of an automobile on a monthly basis in
lieu of payment of mileage in the service of criminal processes.
3. The sheriff shall keep an accurate record of the fees collected in the county system,
make a quarterly report of the fees collected to the board, and pay the fees belonging to the
county into the county treasury as provided in section 331.902.
4. The sheriff shall deposit funds collected and held by the sheriff in an approved
depository as provided in chapter 12C.
1. [C51, §2536; R60, §1570, 4145; C73, §3788, 3789, 3807; C97, S13, §511; C24, 27, 31, 35,
39, §5191; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §337.11; S81, §331.655(1); 81 Acts, ch
117, §654]
2. [C24, §5192; C27, 31, 35, §5191-a1, 5192; C39, §5191.2, 5192; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66,
71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §337.13, 337.14; S81, §331.655(2); 81 Acts, ch 117, §654]
3. [C97, S13, §508; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §5246, 5247; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77,
79, 81, §342.2, 342.3; S81, §331.655(3); 81 Acts, ch 117, §654]
4. [S81, §331.655(4); 81 Acts, ch 117, §654]