Iowa Code § 602.8105 (2026)

1. The clerk of the district court shall collect the following fees:

a. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, for filing and docketing a petition, one hundred ninety-five dollars. In counties having a population of ninety-eight thousand or over, an additional five dollars shall be charged and collected to be known as the journal publication fee and used for the purposes provided for in section 618.13.

b. For filing and docketing a petition for dissolution of marriage, which includes the docketing of any dissolution decree, two hundred sixty-five dollars. It is the intent of the general assembly that twenty percent of the funds generated from these fees be appropriated and used for sexual assault and domestic violence centers and eighty percent of the funds generated from these fees be appropriated to the general fund of the state.\n\nTue Dec 09 22:00:12 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 602 (74, 2) 61 JUDICIAL BRANCH, §602.8106\n\n c. For filing and docketing a petition pursuant to chapter 598 other than a dissolution of marriage petition, one hundred ten dollars.

d. For filing and docketing an application for modification of a dissolution decree to which a written stipulation is attached at the time of filing containing the agreement of the parties to the terms of modification, one hundred ten dollars.

e. For filing and docketing a petition for adoption pursuant to chapter 600, zero dollars.

f. For filing and docketing a small claims action, the amounts specified in section 631.6.

g. For an appeal from a judgment in small claims or for filing and docketing a writ of error, one hundred ninety-five dollars.

h. For a motion to show cause in a civil case, sixty dollars.

i. For filing and docketing a transcript of the judgment in a civil case, sixty dollars.

j. For filing a tribal judgment, one hundred ten dollars.

k. For a civil claim for reimbursement under section 356.7, zero dollars.

2. The clerk of the district court shall collect the following fees for miscellaneous services:

a. For filing and entering any other statutory lien, sixty dollars.

b. For a certificate and seal, thirty dollars. However, there shall be no charge for a certificate and seal to an application to procure a pension, bounty, or back pay for a member of the armed services or other person.

c. For certifying a change in title of real estate, sixty dollars.

d. For filing a praecipe to issue execution under chapter 626, thirty-five dollars. The fee shall be recoverable by the creditor from the debtor against whom the execution is issued. A fee payable by a political subdivision of the state under this paragraph shall be collected by the clerk of the district court as provided in section 602.8109. However, the fee shall be waived and shall not be collected from a political subdivision of the state if a county attorney or county attorney’s designee is collecting a delinquent judgment pursuant to section 602.8107, subsection 4.

e. For filing a praecipe to issue execution under chapter 654, sixty dollars.

f. For filing a confession of judgment under chapter 676, sixty dollars if the judgment is five thousand dollars or less, and one hundred ten dollars if the judgment exceeds five thousand dollars.

g. For filing a lis pendens, sixty dollars.

h. For applicable convictions under section 692A.110 on or after June 25, 2020,* a civil penalty of two hundred sixty dollars.

i. Other fees provided by law.

3. The clerk of the district court shall pay to the treasurer of state all fees which have come into the clerk’s possession and which are unclaimed pursuant to section 556.8 accompanied by a form prescribed by the treasurer. Claims for payment of the moneys must be filed pursuant to chapter 556.

4. The clerk of the district court shall collect a civil penalty assessed against a retailer pursuant to section 126.23B. Any moneys collected from the civil penalty shall be distributed to the city or county that brought the enforcement action for a violation of section 126.23A. 83 Acts, ch 186, §9105, 10201; 83 Acts, ch 204, §14; 85 Acts, ch 175, §11; 85 Acts, ch 195, §54; 85 Acts, ch 197, §20 – 23; 86 Acts, ch 1011, §1; 86 Acts, ch 1238, §24; 87 Acts, ch 98, §5; 87 Acts, ch 234, §312; 88 Acts, ch 1258, §1; 89 Acts, ch 83, §81; 89 Acts, ch 207, §1; 89 Acts, ch 287, §7; 91 Acts, ch 48, §1; 91 Acts, ch 116, §11 – 13; 91 Acts, ch 218, §21 – 24; 91 Acts, ch 219, §15, 16; 92 Acts, ch 1240, §20; 94 Acts, ch 1074, §5; 95 Acts, ch 91, §4; 95 Acts, ch 124, §23, 26; 2000 Acts, ch 1188, §3; 2002 Acts, ch 1126, §1; 2003 Acts, ch 44, §102; 2004 Acts, ch 1127, §2; 2005 Acts, ch 15, §5, 14; 2005 Acts, ch 171, §5; 2006 Acts, ch 1052, §1; 2006 Acts, ch 1144, §7, 8; 2007 Acts, ch 71, §3; 2007 Acts, ch 196, §8; 2009 Acts, ch 119, §44; 2009 Acts, ch 179, §54 – 60, 72; 2010 Acts, ch 1159, §9; 2011 Acts, ch 34, §135; 2013 Acts, ch 90, §170; 2020 Acts, ch 1074, §28, 63, 64, 93; 2021 Acts, ch 145, §2, 11, 12 Referred to in §126.23B, 582.4, 602.9104A, 626A.5, 626C.6, 626D.3, 674.10, 692A.110 *2021 amendment to subsection 2, paragraph h applies retroactively to July 15, 2020; 2021 Acts, ch 145, §12\n\n 602.8106 Collection of fees in criminal cases and disposition of fees and fines.

1. The clerk of the district court shall collect the following fees:\n\nTue Dec 09 22:00:12 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 602 (74, 2) §602.8106, JUDICIAL BRANCH 62\n\n a. Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs “b” and “c”, for filing and docketing a criminal case to be paid by the county or city which has the duty to prosecute the criminal action, payable as provided in section 602.8109, one hundred dollars. When judgment is rendered against the defendant, costs collected from the defendant shall be paid to the county or city which has the duty to prosecute the criminal action to the extent necessary for reimbursement for fees paid. However, the fees which are payable by the county to the clerk of the district court for services rendered in criminal actions prosecuted under state law and the court costs taxed in connection with the trial of those actions or appeals from the judgments in those actions are waived.

b. For filing and docketing of a complaint or information for a simple misdemeanor and a complaint or information for a nonscheduled simple misdemeanor under chapter 321, sixty dollars.

c. For filing and docketing a complaint or information or uniform citation and complaint for parking violations under sections 321.236, 321.239, 321.358, 321.360, and 321.361, eight dollars, effective January 1, 2004. The court costs in cases of parking meter and overtime parking violations which are contested, and charged and collected pursuant to section 321.236, subsection 1, or pursuant to a uniform citation and complaint, are eight dollars per information or complaint or per uniform citation and complaint effective January 1, 1991.

d. For court costs in scheduled violation cases where a court appearance is required, fifty-five dollars.

e. For court costs in scheduled violation cases where a court appearance is not required, fifty-five dollars.

f. For an appeal of a simple misdemeanor to the district court, seventy-five dollars.

g. For a motion to show cause in a criminal case, the fee shall be the same amount as the fee for filing and docketing a complaint, information, or citation for the underlying criminal case from which the motion arises.

h. For a probation revocation, the fee shall be the same amount as the fee for filing and docketing a complaint, information, or citation for the underlying case from which the revocation arises.

2. The clerk of the district court shall remit eighty percent of all fines and forfeited bail to the city that was the plaintiff in any action, and shall provide that city with a statement showing the total number of cases, the total of all fines and forfeited bail collected, and the total of all cases dismissed. The remaining twenty percent shall be submitted to the state court administrator.

3. The clerk of the district court shall remit all fines and forfeited bail for violation of a county ordinance to the county treasurer of the county that was the plaintiff in the action, and shall provide that county with a statement showing the total number of cases, the total of all fines and forfeited bail collected, and the total of all cases dismissed, except all fines and forfeited bail for violation of a county ordinance relating to vehicle speed or weight restrictions shall be distributed pursuant to subsection 4, paragraph “b”. If a county ordinance provides a penalty for a violation which is also penalized under state law, the fines and forfeited bail collected for the violation shall be distributed pursuant to subsection 4, paragraph “b”.

4. a. Except as provided in paragraph “b”, the clerk of the district court shall submit all other fines, fees, costs, and forfeited bail received from a magistrate to the state court administrator.

b. The fine amount for a violation that occurred within the boundaries of the county shall be distributed as follows:

(1) Ninety-one percent to the state court administrator.

(2) Nine percent to the county treasurer for deposit in the county general fund where the violation occurred. 83 Acts, ch 186, §9106, 10201, 10204; 83 Acts, ch 204, §15, 16; 85 Acts, ch 195, §55, 56; 85 Acts, ch 197, §24, 25; 89 Acts, ch 293, §17; 90 Acts, ch 1170, §4; 91 Acts, ch 116, §14; 91 Acts, ch 218, §25; 91 Acts, ch 219, §17; 92 Acts, 2nd Ex, ch 1001, §502; 93 Acts, ch 47, §18; 94 Acts, ch 1074, §6; 95 Acts, ch 143, §11; 2003 Acts, ch 151, §47; 2004 Acts, ch 1120, §6; 2005 Acts,\n\nTue Dec 09 22:00:12 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 602 (74, 2) 63 JUDICIAL BRANCH, §602.8107\n\nch 165, §4; 2006 Acts, ch 1166, §5; 2007 Acts, ch 180, §2; 2009 Acts, ch 21, §11; 2009 Acts, ch 179, §61, 72; 2010 Acts, ch 1061, §75; 2020 Acts, ch 1074, §6, 7, 29, 93 Referred to in §321.236, 331.307, 356.7, 364.22, 453A.3, 602.8102(116), 602.8107, 602.8108, 602.9104A, 805.6, 805.11, 805.12 \n