The Senate Judiciary Committee heard SB 217 on service of process fees collected by a sheriff authored by Sen. Boots. This bill authorizes the sheriff to collect a fee of $25 (the current fee is $13) from a party requesting service of a writ, an order, a process, a notice, a tax warrant, or any other paper completed by the sheriff. The bill also removes the current limit on charging a process fee only one time per case for the duration of the case. The Indiana Sheriffs’ Association and the Association of Indiana Counties testified in support of the bill. An amendment was adopted by consent providing more guidance on the language removing the one-time fee per case to authorize the sheriff to charge a second process fee for post-judgment service of process in each case. The amended bill passed 7-2.
Read the bill at http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/217.