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Constable urges Nueces County to update civil-process fees, cites $96.75 per-paper cost
Summary
The county constable told the commissioners court a new, cost-based fee schedule would better reflect service costs — his draft puts the average civil-paper cost at $96.75 (current common charge $75) and proposes an 'any paper not listed' catchall; audit was asked to verify the numbers before the Aug. 13 workshop.
The county constable presented a draft update to Nueces County’s civil-process fee schedule at the commissioners’ workshop, telling the court that state law requires the court to adopt its fee schedule annually by September for an Oct. 1 effective date. He said the statute ties allowable fees to the county’s cost but does not define the word “cost.”
“I’ve determined that that that paper today is costing the county $96.75,” the constable said, explaining he arrived at the figure by annualizing staff salaries, benefits and operating expenses, then breaking the result down to a per-minute and per-paper basis under an assumption of 20 minutes’…
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