§ 602.8105 — Fees for civil cases and other services — collection and disposition

Iowa § 602.8105

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title XV: JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES
• Ch. 602: JUDICIAL BRANCH

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1. The clerk of the district court shall collect the following fees:
a. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, for filing and docketing a petition,
one hundred ninety-five dollars. In counties having a population of ninety-eight thousand
or over, an additional five dollars shall be charged and collected to be known as the journal
publication fee and used for the purposes provided for in section 618.13.
b. For filing and docketing a petition for dissolution of marriage, which includes the
docketing of any dissolution decree, two hundred sixty-five dollars. It is the intent of the
general assembly that twenty percent of the funds generated from these fees be appropriated
and used for sexual assault and domestic violence centers and eighty percent of the funds
generated from these fees be appropriated to the general fund of the state.

c. For filing and docketing a petition pursuant to chapter 598 other than a dissolution of
marriage petition, one hundred ten dollars.
d. Forfilinganddocketinganapplicationformodificationofadissolutiondecreetowhich
a written stipulation is attached at the time of filing containing the agreement of the parties
to the terms of modification, one hundred ten dollars.
e. For filing and docketing a petition for adoption pursuant to chapter 600, zero dollars.
f. For filing and docketing a small claims action, the amounts specified in section 631.6.
g. Foranappealfromajudgmentinsmallclaimsorforfilinganddocketingawritoferror,
one hundred ninety-five dollars.
h. For a motion to show cause in a civil case, sixty dollars.
i. For filing and docketing a transcript of the judgment in a civil case, sixty dollars.
j. For filing a tribal judgment, one hundred ten dollars.
k. For a civil claim for reimbursement under section 356.7, zero dollars.
2. The clerk of the district court shall collect the following fees for miscellaneous services:
a. For filing and entering any other statutory lien, sixty dollars.
b. For a certificate and seal, thirty dollars. However, there shall be no charge for a
certificate and seal to an application to procure a pension, bounty, or back pay for a member
of the armed services or other person.
c. For certifying a change in title of real estate, sixty dollars.
d. For filing a praecipe to issue execution under chapter 626, thirty-five dollars. The fee
shall be recoverable by the creditor from the debtor against whom the execution is issued. A
feepayablebyapoliticalsubdivisionofthestateunderthisparagraphshallbecollectedbythe
clerk of the district court as provided in section 602.8109. However, the fee shall be waived
and shall not be collected from a political subdivision of the state if a county attorney or
county attorney’s designee is collecting a delinquent judgment pursuant to section 602.8107,
subsection 4.
e. For filing a praecipe to issue execution under chapter 654, sixty dollars.
f. Forfilingaconfessionofjudgmentunderchapter676,sixtydollarsifthejudgmentisfive
thousand dollars or less, and one hundred ten dollars if the judgment exceeds five thousand
dollars.
g. For filing a lis pendens, sixty dollars.
h. For applicable convictions under section 692A.110 on or after June 25, 2020,* a civil
penalty of two hundred sixty dollars.
i. Other fees provided by law.
3. Theclerkofthedistrictcourtshallpaytothetreasurerofstateallfeeswhichhavecome
into the clerk’s possession and which are unclaimed pursuant to section 556.8 accompanied
by a form prescribed by the treasurer. Claims for payment of the moneys must be filed
pursuant to chapter 556.
4. The clerk of the district court shall collect a civil penalty assessed against a retailer
pursuant to section 126.23B. Any moneys collected from the civil penalty shall be distributed
to the city or county that brought the enforcement action for a violation of section 126.23A.