CHAPTER 116

(SB 74)

Transcript fees revised.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  revise certain transcript fees.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  That § 15-15-7 be amended to read as follows:

     15-15-7.   Unless ordered by the court to be supplied to an indigent or his an indigent's counsel and paid out of the county treasury where court was held, a fee shall be charged to the person ordering a typewritten transcript by filing of an order for transcript on appeal of a proceeding taken by an officer of the court, which shall be certified to be a correct transcript of the reporter's notes of the evidence, at the rate of two three dollars and forty cents per page for the original. The fee for a carbon copy, furnished on request, is thirty forty cents per page, to be paid to the officer of the court who prepared the transcript.

     Signed February 20, 2003.

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