PRINTER'S NO. 2000
No. 1635 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY BARLEY, JAMES, GORDNER, STABACK, NICKOL, SHANER,
STERN, HERSHEY, ARMSTRONG, LUCYK, HESS, ZIMMERMAN, SOLOBAY,
SCHRODER, ROSS, DeLUCA, DEMPSEY, LEH, BASTIAN, BELFANTI,
BUXTON, BUNT, TULLI, ZUG, PESCI, McNAUGHTON, WOJNAROSKI,
GEIST, DAILEY, MARSICO, LEDERER, GIGLIOTTI, COSTA, WILLIAMS,
CORRIGAN, VAN HORNE, McCALL, TRELLO AND CORNELL,
JUNE 14, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JUNE 14, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, authorizing clerks of
3 courts of common pleas to increase certain fees and to impose
4 automation fees.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Title 42 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
9 § 1725.4. Fee increases and automation fee.
10 (a) Increasing existing fees.--
11 (1) In counties of the second class A and the third
12 through eighth class, including home rule counties of the
13 same class, the clerk of courts may increase any fee or
14 charge that exists as of the effective date of this section
15 with the approval of the president judge. The amount of any
16 increase may not be greater than the aggregate of the
1 consumer price index from the month in which the fee was last
2 established through June 1998.
3 (2) The amount of any fee or charge increased pursuant
4 to paragraph (1) may be increased every three years, provided
5 that the amount of the increase may not be greater than the
6 percentage of increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban
7 Workers for the immediate three years preceding the last
8 increase in the fee or charge.
9 (b) Automation fee for clerk of courts office.--In addition
10 to any other fee authorized by law, an automation fee of not
11 more than $5 may be charged and collected by the clerk of courts
12 of counties of the second class A and the third through eighth
13 class, including home rule counties of the same class, for the
14 initiation of any action or legal proceeding. The automation fee
15 shall be deposited into a special clerk of courts automation
16 fund established in each county. Moneys in the special fund
17 shall be used solely for the purpose of automation and continued
18 automation update of the office of the clerk of courts.
19 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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