Section 93.111. Determination of reimbursable expenses

(a) General rule. Enforcement Rule 208(g)(2) provides that expenses taxable by the Board pursuant to § 89.205(b) (relating to informal admonition or private reprimand following formal hearing) shall be prescribed by these rules. See also § 89.209 (relating to expenses of formal proceedings) and § 89.278 (relating to expenses of reinstatement proceedings).

(b) Enumeration of expenses. Taxable expenses under these rules shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

(1) court reporter fees and transcript costs;

(2) the fees and expenses of expert and other witnesses;

(3) the cost of serving subpoenas, pleadings and briefs;

(4) the charges by banks and other institutions for production of statements, checks and other records in response to subpoenas or otherwise;

(5) the cost of reproducing documents introduced or offered as evidence at hearings;

(6) the cost of reproducing pleadings and briefs; and

(7) the cost of publishing notices in the legal journal and a newspaper of general circulation as required by Enforcement Rule 217(f) (relating to publication of a notice of suspension, disbarment, administrative suspension or transfer to inactive status) or § 89.274(b) (relating to publication of a notice of reinstatement hearing).

(c) Administrative fee. Enforcement Rule 208(g)(3) provides that the expenses taxable under § 89.205(b) (relating to informal admonition, private reprimand, or public reprimand following formal hearing) or § 89.209 (relating to expenses of formal proceedings) may include an administrative fee except that an administrative fee shall not be included where the discipline imposed is an informal admonition; and that the administrative fee shall be $250.

The provisions of this § 93.111 adopted April 8, 1983, effective April 9, 1983, 13 Pa.B. 1244; amended July 8, 1988, effective July 9, 1988, 18 Pa.B. 3036; amended December 1, 2006, effective immediately, 36 Pa.B. 7233; amended August 11, 2012, effective immediately, 42 Pa.B. 5156; amended January 30, 2015, effective March 2, 2015, 45 Pa.B. 544. Immediately preceding text appears at serial pages (364202) to (364203).