Title 9, Title 9 and Civil Procedure — Procedure Generally

No fee shall be required in any court upon any declaration or petition under the naturalization laws of the United States, or for any process or procedure thereunder, except as hereinafter provided. The clerk’s fee in such cases, including certificate, shall be five dollars ($5.0…

Neither the Legal Aid Society of Rhode Island nor Rhode Island Legal Services, Inc. shall be required to pay any fees to the superior court, family court, or district courts or the clerks thereof or any fees or charges for the service or travel of deputy sheriffs for serving any …

The state of Rhode Island, its departments, agencies, boards, and commissions shall not be required to pay any fees, including appeal fees, to the superior court or district courts or the clerks thereof, or any fees or charges for the service or travel of deputy sheriffs for serv…

Every officer who shall serve any process, civil or criminal, shall indorse thereon the several items which constitute the amount of his or her fees, and on failure thereof the fees shall not be taxed or allowed in any bill of costs, nor be recoverable by law.

The general assembly shall annually appropriate such sum as it may deem necessary to compensate the officers who shall be selected by the attorney general, who shall keep the names and make the disbursements and returns as provided by law.

None of the provisions of this chapter shall be construed to contravene in any manner the provisions of §§ 36-6-6 — 36-6-8.

(a) The superior court shall be allowed the following fees in full to be taxed in the bill of costs in every civil action: (b) In addition to the fees set forth in subsection (a) of this section, the superior court shall apply a technology surcharge on all filing fees assessed in…

(a) The family court shall be allowed the following fees in full to be taxed in the bill of costs in every domestic relations or other civil proceeding: (b) In addition to the fees as set forth herein, the family court shall apply a technology surcharge fee assessed in accordance…

(a) The supreme court, by a majority of its members, shall have the power to prescribe by rule a fee of not more than one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) for docketing a civil appeal or docketing any other proceeding brought to review a civil matter and to prescribe a waiver of t…

In any legal action based upon a cause of action arising on or after July 1, 1987, every pleading, motion, and other paper of a party represented by an attorney shall be signed by at least one attorney of record in his or her individual name, whose address and telephone number sh…

To all officers empowered to take depositions, there shall be allowed: (1) For every hour necessarily employed ......................................... $.40 (2) For every page of 200 words ......................................... .30 (3) For every mile’s travel to the place of …

The following fees shall be taxed and allowed in bills of costs to attorneys and parties in the superior court in civil cases:

(a) All grand and petit jurors shall be paid for each day’s attendance on the superior court twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day commencing July 1, 2022, and thereafter. The general assembly shall annually appropriate such sum as it may deem necessary to carry out the purposes o…

(a) The fees of witnesses shall be: (b) In addition to the fees above provided, witnesses summoned and testifying as experts in behalf of the state, or any person acting as an interpreter, before the supreme, superior, or district court, may be allowed and paid such sum as such c…

Every witness before obtaining any fees, except the amount which in certain cases must be tendered to him or her before he or she can be compelled to attend, shall give a certificate to the clerk of the court wherein or before whom his or her attendance shall be given, certifying…

(a) The fees, including mileage, of deputy sheriffs, town sergeants, and constables, for which a deposit to insure payment may be required, shall not exceed the following: (b) The above fees shall be deposited as general revenue.