HOUSE BILL 269

51st legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2014

INTRODUCED BY

W. Ken Martinez

AN ACT

RELATING TO PROBATE COURTS; INCREASING THE PROBATE COURT DOCKET FEE; REQUIRING FIVE DOLLARS ($5.00) OF THE DOCKET FEE TO BE DEPOSITED IN THE JUDICIAL EDUCATION FUND.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. Section 34-7-14 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1923, Chapter 29, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:

     "34-7-14. FEES OF PROBATE COURT CLERKS.--Clerks of the probate courts are entitled to receive the following docket fees in all matters:

          A. for docketing each cause, to be paid by the party docketing the cause, [thirty dollars ($30.00)] thirty-five dollars ($35.00), which shall include all costs of the clerks in any cause in the court. Five dollars ($5.00) of the docket fee shall be deposited in the judicial education fund. All money collected pursuant to this subsection shall be remitted monthly to the state treasurer; and

          B. a fee of fifteen cents ($.15) per folio in addition to the docket fee may be charged for any excess of twenty folios in cases where judgments or decrees or orders exceed twenty folios."

     SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this act is July 1, 2014.

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