17.1-216 - Handling fee for service of process.

§ 17.1-216. Handling fee for service of process.

The fee for serving such process, order or decree may be delivered to theclerk, who shall transmit it with the papers to be served to the sheriff andthe fee paid shall be taxed by the clerk as a part of the costs of theproceeding.

(Code 1919, § 3403, § 17-52; 1946, p. 55; 1998, c. 872.)