Section 1. Fees.
The fees to be received by the prothonotary, or his counterpart in a home rule county, of the court of common pleas of this Commonwealth in counties of the second class A only shall be as follows:
APPEALS
$30.00
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
$ 5.00
ASSIGNMENTS
$ 5.00
BUILDING AGREEMENTS
$10.00
CERTIFICATION
Certifying copy of any paper:
$ 3.00
1.00
2.00
10.00
COMMENCEMENT OF ACTIONS
For commencement of any action at law or equity, regardless of procedure, a fee of not less than $25 or more than $125 shall be fixed by the prothonotary, or his counterpart in a home rule county, of each court of common pleas in counties of the second class A only, on or before January 1 of each year (except in 1986, when it shall be fixed within 20 days of the effective date of this act) and, when added to all other fees charged, shall bear a reasonable relationship to the sum sufficient to maintain and operate the office of the prothonotary, or his counterpart in a home rule county, and that part of the court administrator's expenses attributed to those functions required to process civil actions, as well as a reasonable share of the cost of maintaining a public law library, which cost shall be determined by the commissioners. After an action has been commenced, no other fees shall be payable except as herein otherwise specifically provided. The fee fixed shall be the same and apply to all actions without variation, except with respect to divorce actions where an additional fee not to exceed $15 may be charged for each count in the complaint in excess of the count requesting the divorce.
EXECUTIONS
Filing of any praecipe for a writ of
$15.00
JUDGMENTS
$ 9.00
LIENS
$ 9.00
NOTARY PUBLIC
$ 2.00
POUNDAGE
$ .03
.01
REVIVALS
Including, in every instance, any entry of judgment:
$ 9.00
9.00
15.00
SUBPOENA
$ 2.00
SEARCHES
Search of any record or index, including certification:
$ 5.00
1.00
SATISFACTIONS
Entering satisfactions, releases, postponements, assignments, subordinations, of all encumbrances or liens by power of attorney or otherwise; or settlement, discontinued ending or
$ 5.00
ARBITRATIONS
$15.00
Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.