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[CITE: 28USC1913]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                            PART V--PROCEDURE
 
                       CHAPTER 123--FEES AND COSTS
 
Sec. 1913. Courts of appeals

    The fees and costs to be charged and collected in each court of 
appeals shall be prescribed from time to time by the Judicial Conference 
of the United States. Such fees and costs shall be reasonable and 
uniform in all the circuits.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 954.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 543 (Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 
517, Sec. 2, 26 Stat. 826; Feb. 19, 1897, ch. 263, 29 Stat. 536; Sept. 
27, 1944, ch. 413, 58 Stat. 743).
    Words ``and in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the 
District of Columbia'' were omitted as covered by ``each court of 
appeals.''
    Judicial Conference of Senior Circuit Judges was changed to Judicial 
Conference ``of the United States'' in conformity with section 331 of 
this title.
    Changes were made in phraseology.


             Court Fees for Electronic Access to Information

    Pub. L. 102-140, title III, Sec. 303, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 810, 
as amended by Pub. L. 104-317, title IV, Sec. 403(b), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 
Stat. 3854, provided that:
    ``(a) The Judicial Conference shall hereafter prescribe reasonable 
fees, pursuant to sections 1913, 1914, 1926, 1930, and 1932 of title 28, 
United States Code, for collection by the courts under those sections 
for access to information available through automatic data processing 
equipment. These fees may distinguish between classes of persons, and 
shall provide for exempting persons or classes of persons from the fees, 
in order to avoid unreasonable burdens and to promote public access to 
such information. The Director of the Administrative Office of the 
United States Courts, under the direction of the Judicial Conference of 
the United States, shall prescribe a schedule of reasonable fees for 
electronic access to information which the Director is required to 
maintain and make available to the public.
    ``(b) The Judicial Conference and the Director shall transmit each 
schedule of fees prescribed under paragraph (a) to the Congress at least 
30 days before the schedule becomes effective. All fees hereafter 
collected by the Judiciary under paragraph (a) as a charge for services 
rendered shall be deposited as offsetting collections to the Judiciary 
Automation Fund pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 612(c)(1)(A) to reimburse expenses 
incurred in providing these services.''
    Similar provisions were contained in the following prior 
appropriation act:
    Pub. L. 101-515, title IV, Sec. 404, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 2132.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2077 of this title.
