Sec 12-1128. Costs and jury fees

A. Costs may be allowed or not, and if allowed may be apportioned between the parties on the same or adverse sides, in the discretion of the court.

B. The jury fee may be assessed or not against the plaintiff, in the discretion of the court. If jury fees are so assessed, they shall be calculated in the same manner and amounts as in other civil actions and the plaintiff shall pay such fee to the clerk of the court for transmittal to the county treasurer who shall dispose such monies in the same manner as the disposition of other jury fees.

C. In an action for condemnation of property by or on behalf of an educational, reformatory or penal institution of the state, if the board or officers having charge of the institution, prior to commencement of the action or proceeding, tender to the owner of the property such sum of money as the board or officers deem the reasonable value of the property, and the owner refuses to accept it and transfer the property, then all costs and expenses of the action or proceeding shall be taxed against the owner unless the sum of money assessed in the judgment as the value of the property and compensation to be paid therefor is greater than the amount so tendered.