N.C. R. App. P. F
Fees and costs are provided by order of the Supreme Court and apply to proceedings in either appellate court. A fee payment is due when the document to which it pertains is filed and must be submitted to the clerk of the appropriate appellate court. A person may submit payment for an applicable fee by hand delivery or mail.
There is no fee for filing a motion in a cause; other fees are as follows:
Notice of Appeal, Petition for Discretionary Review, Petition for Writ of Certiorari or other extraordinary writ, Petition for Writ of Supersedeas-docketing fee of $10.00 for each document, i.e., docketing fees for a notice of appeal and petition for discretionary review filed jointly would be $20.00.
Petitions to rehear require a docketing fee of $20.00. (Petitions to rehear are only entertained in civil cases.)
An appeal bond or a monetary deposit of $250.00 is required in civil cases per Rules 6 and 17. The bond should be filed contemporaneously with the record in the Court of Appeals and with the notice of appeal in the Supreme Court. The bond will not be required in cases brought by petition for discretionary review or certiorari unless and until the court allows the petition.
Costs for printing documents are $1.75 per printed page. The appendix to a brief under the transcript option of Rules 9(c) and 28(b) and (c) will be reproduced as is, but billed at the rate of the printing of the brief. Both appellate courts will bill the parties for the costs of printing their documents.
Court costs on appeal total $9.00, plus the cost of copies of the opinion to each party filing a brief, and are imposed when a notice of appeal is withdrawn or dismissed, or when the mandate is issued following the opinion in a case.
Photocopying charges are $.20 per page. The facsimile transmission fee for documents sent from the clerk's office, which is in addition to standard photocopying charges, is $5.00 for the first twenty-five pages and $.20 for each page thereafter.
The fee for a certified copy of an appellate court decision, in addition to photocopying charges, is $10.00.
N.c. R. App. P. F
Amended October 13, 2021, effective 1/1/2022; amended June 18, 2024, effective 6/18/2024.
The former "Appendix of Tables and Forms," 287 N.C. 671, was repealed and replaced with Appendixes A through F on 7 December 1982, 306 N.C. 757.