Title 36 — Title 36 COUNTIES

The definitions set forth in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Recording officer" means the county auditor, or in charter counties the county official charged with the responsibility for recording instruments in the coun…

Except as otherwise ordered by the court pursuant to RCW 4.24.130, county auditors or recording officers shall collect the following fees for their official services:(1) For recording instruments, for the first page eight and one-half by 14 inches or less, $5; for each additional…

(1) Revenue collected under this section is subject to division with the state.(2) The party filing a transcript or abstract of judgment or verdict from a United States court held in this state, or from the superior court of another county or from a district court in the county o…

(1) Revenue collected under this section is subject to division with the county law library under RCW 27.24.070.(2) For filing a petition for emancipation for minors as required under RCW 13.64.020 a fee up to fifty dollars must be collected.[ 1995 c 292 s 13.]

*** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 2543.SL) ***(1) Revenue collected under this section is not subject to division under RCW 36.18.025 or 27.24.070.(2)(a) For the filing of a petition for modification of a decree of dissolution or paternity, within the same case as the original action, …

(1) State revenue collected by county clerks under subsection (2) of this section must be transmitted to the appropriate state court. The administrative office of the courts shall retain fees collected under subsection (3) of this section.(2) For appellate review under RAP 5.1(b)…

(1) Revenue collected under this section is subject to division with the state under RCW 36.18.025 and with the county or regional law library fund under RCW 27.24.070, except as provided in subsections (5) and (6) of this section.(2) Clerks of superior courts shall collect the f…

The court may waive the filing fees provided for under RCW 36.18.016(2)(b) and 36.18.020(2) (a) and (b) upon affidavit by a party that the party is unable to pay the fee due to financial hardship.[ 2005 c 374 s 6; 1995 c 292 s 16; 1992 c 54 s 5.]Notes:Effective date—1992 c 54: Se…

Forty-six percent of the money received from filing fees paid pursuant to RCW 36.18.020, except those collected for the filing of warrants for unpaid taxes or overpayments by state agencies as outlined in RCW 36.18.012(10), shall be transmitted by the county treasurer each month …

Coroners shall collect for their official services, the following fees:For each inquest held, besides mileage, twenty dollars.For issuing a venire, two dollars.For drawing all necessary writings, two dollars for first page and one dollar for each page thereafter.For mileage each …

(1) Sheriffs shall collect the following fees for their official services:(a) For service of each summons and complaint, notice and complaint, summons and petition, and notice of small claim on one defendant at any location, ten dollars, and on two or more defendants at the same …

County treasurers shall collect the following fees for their official services:For preparing and certifying copies, with or without seal for the first legal size page, two dollars, for each additional legal size page, one dollar.[ 1963 c 4 s 36.18.045. Prior: 1959 c 263 s 10.]

Every officer who shall be called on or required to perform service for which no fees or compensation are provided for in this chapter shall be allowed fees similar and equal to those allowed him or her for services of the same kind for which allowance is made herein.[ 2009 c 549…

The officers mentioned in this chapter except the county sheriff shall not, in any case, except for the state or county, perform any official services unless the fees prescribed therefor are paid in advance, and on such payment the officer must perform the services required. The …

When any sheriff, constable or coroner serves more than one process in the same cause or on the same person not requiring more than one journey from his or her office, he or she shall receive mileage only for the most distant service.[ 2009 c 549 s 4017; 1963 c 4 s 36.18.070. Pri…

Every county officer entitled to collect fees from the public shall keep posted in his or her office a plain and legible statement of the fees allowed by law and failure so to do shall subject the officer to a fine of one hundred dollars and costs, to be recovered in any court of…

Every officer, when requested so to do, shall make out a bill of his or her fees in every case, and for any services, specifying each particular item thereof, and receipt the same when it is paid, which bill of fees shall always be subject to examination and correction by the cou…

If any officer takes more or greater fees than are allowed by law he or she shall be subject to prosecution, and on conviction, shall be removed from office and fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.[ 2009 c 549 s 4021; 1963 c 4 s 36.18.160. Prior: Code 1881 s 2090; 1…

Any salaried county or precinct officer, who fails to pay to the county treasury all sums that have come into the officer's hands for fees and charges for the county, or by virtue of the officer's office, whether under the laws of this state or of the United States, is guilty of …

The board of county commissioners of any county in this state, upon receiving a certified copy of the record of conviction of any officer for receiving illegal fees, or where the officer collects fees and fails to account for the same, upon proof thereof must declare his or her o…

Superior court clerks may contract with collection agencies under chapter 19.16 RCW or may use county collection services for the collection of unpaid court-ordered legal financial obligations as enumerated in RCW 9.94A.030 that are ordered pursuant to a felony or misdemeanor con…