The sum to which a witness is entitled shall be paid out of the state treasury in any case of attendance before either house or a committee of the General Assembly and in any other case in which the attendance is for the Commonwealth except when it is otherwise specially provided. In all other cases it shall be paid by the party for whom the summons issued. The payment shall be on a certificate of the person required by § 17.1-612 to make the entry or the clerk of the court in whose minutes the entry is made. The certificate shall express by letters and not by figures the separate amount to which the witness is entitled for his attendance, traveling, and tolls which he may have to pay and the aggregate thereof. No clerk or other person authorized to make such entry or give such certificate shall become interested by purchase in any claim payable out of the state treasury which by law he is authorized to certify.
Code 1950, § 14-188; 1964, c. 386, § 14.1-191; 1998, c. 872.
Structure Code of Virginia
§ 17.1-600. Laws of costs not penal; discretion of courts of equity
§ 17.1-601. General rule as to recovery of costs on final judgment
§ 17.1-602. When successful plaintiff not to recover costs
§ 17.1-603. Costs when suit is in name of one person for another
§ 17.1-604. Costs in appellate courts
§ 17.1-605. Same; printing or otherwise reproducing brief and appendix
§ 17.1-606. Persons allowed services without fees or costs
§ 17.1-607. Security for costs upon suit by nonresident
§ 17.1-608. How obligor in such bond may obtain indemnity
§ 17.1-609. Costs on certain motions and interlocutory orders
§ 17.1-610. Payment of costs when new trial granted
§ 17.1-611. Allowances to witnesses for Commonwealth
§ 17.1-612. Allowances to other witnesses
§ 17.1-613. By whom and upon what certificate allowances to witnesses paid
§ 17.1-614. List of entries made on behalf of witnesses
§ 17.1-615. Time within which witnesses may be paid out of state treasury
§ 17.1-616. Restriction of costs for witnesses generally; when entry for witness not allowed
§ 17.1-617. Number of witnesses paid fees in criminal cases
§ 17.1-620. When juror not entitled to compensation
§ 17.1-621. Clerk to make entry on minutes stating amount due and by whom payable
§ 17.1-622. Clerk to transmit orders making allowances to Supreme Court, treasurer and jurors
§ 17.1-623. Payment of allowances
§ 17.1-626. Other items to be taxed in costs
§ 17.1-626.1. Recovery of costs in civil actions for bad checks
§ 17.1-627. Premium on indemnifying bond taxed as costs
§ 17.1-629. No judgment for costs against Commonwealth; exception