MASSACHUSETTS COSTS & FEES

1 MASSACHUSETTS COSTS & fees . Click on the link below to access the appropriate information you are looking for. If the link has an asterisk (*) in front of it, it will open up a page on your browser which contains the current information pertaining to that link. _____. FEDERAL COURTS. Court of Appeals, US fees District Court, US fees & Deposits Federal Post Judgment Interest Rates Bankruptcy Courts, US fees STATE COURTS OF MASSACHUSETTS . District Ct. & Boston Mun. Court Dept. fees Housing Court Dept. fees Interest Rates on State Court Judgments Land Court fees Probate & Family Court Dept.

2 fees Superior Court Dept. fees Supreme & Appeals Court fees Trial Court fees Document Stamp Rates Municipal Tax Rates Registry of Deeds Secretary of the Commonwealth fees Commissions Division fees Corporations Division Certificates Domestic Corps. Certificates Foreign Corps. Certificates Limited Partnerships Copies Domestic Profit Corporations ( 156D) and Professional Corporations ( 156A). Foreign Corps. ( 181). Limited Liability Companies (950 CMR ). Limited Liability Partnerships (950 CMR ). Limited Partnerships MASSACHUSETTS Uniform Commercial Code Non-Profit Organizations ( 180).

3 Service of Process Trademarks Transaction fees for Expedited Service (Faxed and Online Filings). Voluntary Associations Lobbyist Section fees Securities Division fees Sheriffs, Deputies & Constable fees COURT FILING fees . COURT fees IN MASSACHUSETTS . FEDERAL COURTS Filing notice of appeal to district judge from a UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS judgment of conviction by a magistrate judge in SCHEDULE OF fees a misdemeanor (Effective September 1, 2018) Processing fee for a petty offense charged in a Docket fee, Court of Appeals (a separate fee must Federal violation notice.)

4 $ be filed by each party filing a notice of appeal, Search of District Court Records (each name or item) but parties filing a joint notice of appeal are Certifying any document or paper .. required to pay only one fee) .. $ Exemplifying any document or paper .. Search of Court Records and certification of the results Filing or indexing any paper not in a case or Certifying any document or paper .. proceeding ( , petition to perpetuate Photographic (Xerox) copies (from documents or testimony, Rule 27(a), , the filing of microfilm), per .50 papers by trustees under 28 754, the Reproduction of audio recording, including filing of letters rogatory or letters of request, and registering of a judgment from another district For reproduction of the record in any appeal in pursuant to 28 1963).

5 Which the court of appeals does not require an Registration of foreign judgment .. appendix, pursuant to Rule 30(f), Admission of attorney to practice (including For each microfiche sheet of film or microfilm certificate).. jacket copy of any court record, where available .. Duplicate Certificate or Certificate of Good For retrieval of a record from a Federal Records Standing .. Center, National Archives, or other storage location removed from the place of business of Motion for leave to appear (Pro hac vice).. the court, first box received .. Copies made by Clerk (not including certification).

6 Each additional box .. Photographic (Xerox) copies (from docu- For electronic retrievals, in addition to any ments or microfilm), per page ..50. charges assessed by the specific storage location Reproduction of magnetic tape recording, in- For reproducing and transmitting in any manner a copy cluding materials .. of an electronic record stored outside of the court's For each microfiche sheet of film or microfilm electronic case management system, including but jacket copy of any court record, where available .. not limited to, document files, audio recordings, and For retrieval of a record from a Federal Records Center, video recordings, per record provided.

7 National Archives, or other storage location removed For a check paid into the court which is returned from the place of business of the court, first box .. for lack of funds .. Each additional box .. To be paid by appellant or petitioner upon the filing For electronic retrievals, in addition to any of any separate or joint notice of appeal or charges assessed by the specific storage location application for appeal from the Bankruptcy For reproducing and transmitting in any manner a Appellate Panel, or notice of the allowance of an copy of an electronic record stored outside of the appeal from the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel.

8 Court's electronic case management system, Admission of attorney to practice (including certificate) including but not limited to, document files, audio Duplicate Certificate or Certificate of Good recordings, and video recordings, per record Standing .. provided (audio recordings of court proceedings The clerk shall assess a charge for the handling of registry continue to be governed by a separate fee).. funds, to be assessed from interest earnings and in accordance For a check paid into the court which is returned with the detailed fee schedule issued by the Director of the for lack of funds.

9 Administrative Office of the United States Courts. For filing an action brought under Title III of the The court may charge and collect fees , commensurate with Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity the cost of printing, for copies of the local rules of court. The court (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996, 104-114, 110 Stat. may also distribute copies of the local rules without charge. 785 (1996) (in addition to fee for commencing The court may charge and collect a $ per remote location any civil proceeding other than habeas corpus). 6, for counsel's requested use of videoconferencing equipment in The clerk shall assess a charge for the handling of registry connection with each oral argument.

10 Funds, to be assessed from interest earnings and in accordance For usage of electronic access to court data, $.10 per page for with the detailed fee schedule issued by the Director of the public users using a Federal judiciary Internet site [provided Administrative Office of the United States Courts. For the court may, for good cause, exempt persons or classes of management of registry funds invested through the Court persons from the fees , in order to avoid unreasonable burdens Registry Investment System, a fee at a rate of 10 basis points and to promote public access to such information].