BUTLER COUNTY Clerk of Courts' Schedule of Fees and Costs; Misc.; Administrative Doc. No. 4-2015 [45 Pa.B. 1947]
[Saturday, April 18, 2015]Order of Court And Now, this 16th day of March, 2015, upon consideration of the Clerk of Courts' Petition to Increase Fees and Costs Pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 1725.4 It Is Hereby Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed, that:
1. The revised fee schedule submitted by the Clerk of Courts of Butler County, Pennsylvania, a copy of which follows hereto and incorporated herein, is approved.
2. The revised fee schedule approved by this Order of Court shall be effective on May 1, 2015.
3. The Clerk of Courts is hereby directed to immediately cause the publication of the revised fee schedule in the Butler County Legal Journal once a week for two (2) successive weeks, and to file a copy of the Proof of Publication of the advertisement at the previously listed term and docket number.
4. The Clerk of Courts shall file one (1) certified copy hereof with AOPC and distribute two (2) certified copies plus a diskette to the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication in the PA Bulletin.
5. The Clerk of Courts is to distribute a copy of the fee schedule to each of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County and to the Butler County Bar Association.
6. Nothing contained herein shall prevent this Court to further revise the fee schedule approved by this Order of Court upon proper application made in accordance with law.
By the Court
THOMAS J. DOERR,
President JudgeClerk of Courts' Petition to Increase Fees and Costs Pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. § 1725.4 And Now, comes Lisa Weiland Lotz, Clerk of Courts of Butler County, by and through Leo M. Stepanian, II, Esquire, Solicitor, and respectfully petitions this Court as follows:
1. Petitioner is the duly elected Clerk of Courts of the Common Pleas Court of Butler County, Pennsylvania.
2. Butler County is a county of the fourth class.
3. Act 36 of 2000 provides in pertinent part:
The amount of any fee or charge increased pursuant to paragraph (1) may be increased every three years, provided that the amount of the increase may not be greater than the percentage of increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Workers for the immediate three years preceding the last increase in the fee or charge.
42 Pa.C.S. § 1725.4(a)(2).
4. The Clerk of Courts last sought approval for and this Court last granted approval for an increase in the fees and costs charged by the Clerk of Courts in April 2012.
5. Pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. § 1725.4(a)(2), the Clerk of Courts may request, and the President Judge may approve, an increase in the fees and costs charged by the Clerk of Courts based upon the increase in the Consumer Price Index for the period from June 2009 to June 2011.
6. Based upon the Consumer Price Index for Urban Workers (Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers), the Consumer Price Index has increased 4.64% (June 2009 to June 2011).
7. Following hereto as Exhibit ''A'' is a proposed fee bill for the Clerk of Courts of Butler County, Pennsylvania that takes into account the increase in the Consumer Price Index as previously set forth.
Wherefore, the Clerk of Courts of Butler County, Pennsylvania respectfully requests this honorable Court to authorize and adopt the schedule of fees and costs as proposed hereby.
LEO M. STEPANIAN, II,
Solicitor for the Clerk of CourtsExhibit ''A'' 
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 15-721. Filed for public inspection April 17, 2015, 9:00 a.m.]
