Kansas Statutes 60-2003. Items allowable as costs
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 60-2003
- Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
- Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
Items which may be included in the taxation of costs are:
(1) The docket fee as provided for by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 60-2001, and amendments thereto.
(2) The mileage, fees, and other allowable expenses of the sheriff, other officer or private process server incurred in the service of process or in effecting any of the provisional remedies authorized by this chapter.
(3) Publisher’s charges in effecting any publication of notices authorized by law.
(4) Statutory fees and mileage of witnesses attending court or the taking of depositions used as evidence.
(5) Reporter‘s or stenographic charges for the taking of depositions used as evidence.
(6) The postage fees incurred pursuant to Kan. Stat. Ann. § 60-303, and amendments thereto.
(7) Alternative dispute resolution fees shall include fees, expenses and other costs arising from mediation, conciliation, arbitration, settlement conferences or other alternative dispute resolution means, whether or not such means were successful in resolving the matter or matters in dispute, which the court shall have ordered or to which the parties have agreed.
(8) Convenience fees and other administrative fees levied for the privilege of paying assessments, fees, costs, fines or forfeitures by credit card or other means, including, but not limited to, fees for electronic filing of documents or pleadings with the court.
(9) Such other charges as are by statute authorized to be taxed as costs.