18-3-608. Fees generally.

(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(ii) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.

(iii) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.

(iv) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.

(v) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.

(vi) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.

(vii) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.

(viii) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.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(xii) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.

(xiii) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 158, § 2.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.