602.8109 Settlement of accounts of cities and counties.
1. A city or a county shall pay court costs and other fees payable to the clerk of the district court for services rendered upon receipt of a statement from the clerk disclosing the amount due.
2. The clerk of the district court shall deliver a statement to the county auditor no later than the fifteenth day of each month disclosing all of the following:
a. The specific amounts of statutory fees and costs that are payable by the county to the clerk for services rendered by the clerk or other state officers or employees during the preceding month in connection with each civil or criminal action, and the total of all of these fees and costs.
b. Any amounts collected by the clerk of the district court during the preceding month as costs in an action when these amounts are payable by law to the county as reimbursement for costs incurred by the county in connection with a civil or criminal action, and the total of all of these amounts.
3. If the amount owed by the county under subsection 2, paragraph “a” for a calendar month is greater than the amount due to the county under subsection 2, paragraph “b” for that month, the county shall remit the difference to the clerk of the district court no later than the last day of the month in which the statement under subsection 2 is received.
4. If the amount due to the county under subsection 2, paragraph “b” for a calendar month is greater than the amount owed by the county under subsection 2, paragraph “a” for that month, the clerk of the district court shall remit the difference to the county treasurer no later than the last day of the month in which the statement under subsection 2 is delivered.
5. The clerk of the district court shall deliver a statement to the city clerk no later than the fifteenth day of each month disclosing all of the following:
a. The specific amounts of statutory fees and costs that are payable by the city to the clerk of the district court for services rendered by the clerk or other state officers or employees during the preceding month in connection with each civil or criminal action, and the total of all such fees and costs.
b. Any amounts collected by the clerk of the district court during the preceding month as costs in an action when such amounts are payable by law to the city as reimbursement for costs incurred by the city in connection with a civil or criminal action, and the total of all such amounts.
6. If the amount owed by the city under subsection 5, paragraph “a”, for a calendar month is greater than the amount due to the city under subsection 5, paragraph “b”, for that month, the city shall remit the difference to the clerk of the district court no later than the last day of the month in which the statement under subsection 5 is received.
7. If the amount due the city under subsection 5, paragraph “b”, for a calendar month is greater than the amount owed by the city under subsection 5, paragraph “a”, for that month, the clerk of the district court shall remit the difference to the city clerk no later than the last day of the month in which the statement under subsection 5 is delivered.
8. Amounts not paid as required under subsection 3, 4, 6, or 7 shall bear interest for each day of delinquency at the rate in effect as of the day of delinquency for time deposits of public funds for eighty-nine days, as established under section 12C.6.
83 Acts, ch 186, §9109, 10201; 2007 Acts, ch 196, §12 – 14; 2011 Acts, ch 34, §136
Referred to in §331.506, 602.8105, 602.8106
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