Sec. 10. (a) Not later than seventy-five (75) days after judgment is entered in an action, the clerk shall issue an itemized fee bill for the collection of fees that were charged against the party in that action and that remain unpaid. The clerk shall present the fee bill for collection to the sheriff of a county in which the debtor party resides or in which the debtor party has property.
(b) The sheriff shall do the following:
(1) Collect the amount due under the fee bill.
(2) Return the fee bill to the clerk not more than sixty (60) days after the day the fee bill was issued.
(c) After presented to the sheriff, a fee bill has the effect of an execution and operates as a lien upon the real and personal property of the debtor.
(d) A successor of an officer may issue fee bills for the fees of the officer's predecessors in office in the manner provided under this chapter. A clerk may issue the fee bills of the sheriff or the former sheriffs of the county in the same manner.
[Pre-2004 Recodification Citation: 33-19-1-8.]
As added by P.L.98-2004, SEC.16.
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