(a)For the serving of process according to the Wyoming
Rules of Civil Procedure, each county sheriff shall receive from
the party requesting service a single fee, to be determined and
set by the board of county commissioners after a public hearing,
paid in advance to be credited to the county general fund, not
to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) for the first three (3)
attempts at service at a different time and date for each
attempt. Thereafter a fee not to exceed ten dollars ($10.00) may
be charged for each succeeding attempt. The court may waive the
fees upon an adequate showing of indigency. Any fees waived
may, pursuant to court order, be assessed and collected against
any judgment rendered. Each county sheriff shall receive from
the party for whom service is rendered in civil cases the
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(a) For the serving of process according to the Wyoming
Rules of Civil Procedure, each county sheriff shall receive from
the party requesting service a single fee, to be determined and
set by the board of county commissioners after a public hearing,
paid in advance to be credited to the county general fund, not
to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) for the first three (3)
attempts at service at a different time and date for each
attempt. Thereafter a fee not to exceed ten dollars ($10.00) may
be charged for each succeeding attempt. The court may waive the
fees upon an adequate showing of indigency. Any fees waived
may, pursuant to court order, be assessed and collected against
any judgment rendered. Each county sheriff shall receive from
the party for whom service is rendered in civil cases the
following fees which shall be transmitted to the county
treasurer to be credited to the county general fund and which
shall be paid in advance if demanded by the sheriff from the
party for whom the service is rendered:
(i) Deleted by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 1.
(ii) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.
(iii) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.
(iv) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.
(v) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.
(vi) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.
(vii) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.
(viii) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.
(ix) Commission on money collected on execution or
other final process, where the same is collected without sale of
property:
(A) For the first five hundred dollars
($500.00), two percent (2%);
(B) For the second five hundred dollars
($500.00), one percent (1%);
(C) For all over one thousand dollars
($1,000.00), one-half of one percent (0.5%).
(x) Where collection is made upon a sale of the
property, the commissions allowed are as follows:
(A) On the first five hundred dollars ($500.00),
four percent (4%);
(B) On the second five hundred dollars
($500.00), two percent (2%);
(C) On all over one thousand dollars
($1,000.00), one percent (1%).
(xi) For advertising property for sale, one dollar
and fifty cents ($1.50).
(xii) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.
(xiii) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.
(b) When in the execution of his duties, it is necessary
for the county sheriff to take, store, keep, maintain or subsist
any property he is entitled to receive a reasonable allowance to
cover all actual and necessary expenses of doing so. The
allowance shall be fixed by the proper court upon affidavit made
by the sheriff or his deputy or undersheriff, detailing all
items of expense, and that the expenses were actually and
necessarily incurred. The court before allowing the claim may
require additional evidence to sustain the claim. The county
sheriff before incurring any expense may require the party for
whose benefit the expense is to be incurred to deposit a sum
sufficient to meet the same. The allowance shall accrue to the
sheriff, and he shall not be chargeable therewith.
(c) Repealed by Laws 1989, ch. 32, § 2.