Mississippi Code

Miss. Code Ann. § 25-7-3 (2026)

Clerk of the Supreme Court

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The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall charge the following fees:

(a) General docket fee, for filing the record on appeal in a civil or criminal case .................... $ 200.00

(b) Miscellaneous docket fee .................... 50.00

(c) Confidential miscellaneous docket fee .................... 200.00

(d) Admission of new attorneys .................... 30.00

(e) Act of Congress certificate .................... 25.00

(f) Certificate of admission replacement .................... 25.00

(g) Certificate of good standing replacement .................... 10.00

(h) Attest stamp .................... 5.00

(i) Order from Minute Book .................... 10.00

(j) Regular copying .................... .50 per page

(k) Copying from bound volumes or records ....................2.00 per page

(l) Copy of mandate ....................10.00

(m) Minimum copy charge.................... 1.00

(n) Notary fee .................... 2.50

(o) Decision list charge.................... 5.00

(p) Handling charge and retrieval and delivery charges on completed Supreme Court records (to be retained out of deposit)
On-site retrieval .................... 10.00
Off-site retrieval .................... 15.00

(q) Forfeited deposits on completed Supreme Court records .................... 100.00

(r) Petition for rehearing.................... 50.00
Said general docket fee shall be collected from the appellant by the clerk of the lower court and forwarded to the Clerk of the Supreme Court. The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall charge the maximum amount allowable by law for services rendered where charges for such services are provided by statute; for any other services rendered, the amount charged shall be consistent with the cost of providing such services. All fees shall be paid in the form of cash, cashier's check, or money order or by a check on the account of an attorney payable to the Clerk of the Supreme Court. All fees authorized to be assessed and collected by the Clerk of the Supreme Court shall be deposited into the State General Fund, except that One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) of the general docket fee set under paragraph (a), Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) of the miscellaneous docket fee set under paragraph (b), One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) of the confidential miscellaneous fee set under paragraph (c), Fifteen Dollars ($15.00) of the act of Congress certificate set under paragraph (e), Ten Dollars ($10.00) of the certificate of admission replacement set under paragraph (f), Two Dollars and Fifty Cents ($2.50) of the attest stamp set under paragraph (h), Five Dollars ($5.00) of the order from minute book set under paragraph (i), Seven Dollars ($7.00) of the copy of mandate set under paragraph (l), Fifty Dollars ($50.00) of the forfeited deposits on completed Supreme Court records set under paragraph (q), Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) of the petition for rehearing fee under paragraph (r), and the total amount charged for any other services rendered shall be deposited to the credit of the Judicial System Operation Fund established in Section 9-21-45.

Codes, 1880, § 440; 1892, § 1988; 1906, § 2164; Hemingway's 1917, § 1845; 1930, § 1783; 1942, § 3929; Laws, 1978, ch 335, § 35; Laws, 1984, ch. 407; Laws, 1986, ch. 490; Laws, 1989, ch. 336, § 1; Laws, 1993, ch. 386, § 1; Laws, 2012, ch. 329, § 3, eff. 7/1/2012.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 1979–1983 · leading case: Moran v. Necaise, 437 So. 2d 1222 (Miss. 1983).

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Moran v. Necaise, 437 So. 2d 1222 (Miss. 1983). · cites it 2× “prepaying the costs in the lower court and the fee required by section 25-7-3. (2) ... filing in the office of the clerk of this Court a transcript of the record of the case in which the appeal is taken.”

Dixieland Food Stores, Inc. v. Kelly's Big Star, Inc., 384 So. 2d 1031 (Miss. 1980). · cites it 8× “00 required by section 25-7-3 Mississippi Code Annotated (Supp.”

Allgood v. Allgood, 367 So. 2d 450 (Miss. 1979). · cites it 2× “or on appeals from final judgments of a circuit court in civil cases, or from final decrees of a chancery court including cases where the circuit court or chancery court has acted as an appellate court, the appellant shall prepay all of the costs in the lower court including the…”

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