Rule 2 - Municipal courts (a) Costs and fees assessed and collected in municipal courts shall be fixed by ordinance in each city and town but costs shall not exceed $10.00. Such costs shall be remitted to the city or town treasurer. By ordinance, a city or town may prescribe either a court automation fee of $25.00 or an indigent civil legal services fee of $10.00 or both as a cost to be paid by every person guilty of a violation of a city or town ordinance, and if so prescribed those fees shall be remitted to the judicial systems automation account established by W.S. §5-2-120 and the indigent civil legal services account established by W.S. §5-2-121. (b) Record check requests - All requests for a record check shall be submitted in writing by the applicant. Response to the request for a record check shall be made by the court in writing as soon as practicable after the written request is received by the court. The fee for checking municipal court records shall be ten dollars ($10.00). Payment of the $10.00 fee for each record check shall be made in cash or check payable to the court. Only one fee shall be charged for a record check involving a particular name and any reasonable derivation or other spelling of that name. However, a separate record check fee will be charged for each and every alias which is dissimilar to the original name submitted. No charge shall be made for checking municipal court records if requested by an employee of a governmental agency. Any request for copies of documents shall be billed separately above and beyond any fee charged as set forth herein. This rule and the charge provided only applies to services required from court personnel to check and/or abstract court records. This rule has no application to the personal examination of any court records including indexes by any individual desiring information from these public records. Amended May 25, 2010, effective July 1, 2010; amended May 9, 2000, effective July 1, 2000; amended December 17, 2002, effective July 1, 2003 (Note: The original effective date of the December 17, 2002 Order was January 1, 2003. This was amended to July 1, 2003 by an Order dated June 23, 2003; amended July 18, 2017, effective July 18, 2017.