480. The party entitled to costs prepares a bill thereof in accordance with the tariffs in force, and has it served upon the party who owes the costs, if the latter has appeared, with a notice of at least five days of the date when it will be presented for taxation to the clerk; the latter may require proof to be made by affidavit or by witnesses.
The taxation may be revised by the judge within 30 days, upon motion served on the opposite party. The judgment thus rendered is final and subject to appeal in accordance with the rules provided in article 26.
However, saving the debtor’s contingent right to recover, the motion for revision or the appeal from the judgment on that motion does not suspend execution unless the amount of the factum as taxed or as revised exceeds $10,000, in which case the execution is suspended in respect of the excess.
1965 (1st sess.), c. 80, a. 480; 1982, c. 32, s. 34; 1992, c. 57, s. 420.