Huntingdon County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts

Huntingdon County Prothonotary / Clerk of Courts Office

Pennsylvania does not use the District Clerk title for Huntingdon County trial-court filings. The local primary court-record office is the Office of Prothonotary / Clerk of Courts, led by Sarah Snare. The office is listed at 223 Penn Street, Courthouse, Huntingdon, PA 16652, with phone numbers 814-643-1610 and 814-643-5511, fax 814-643-4271, and email ssnare@huntingdoncounty.net.

The county describes the office as divided into Prothonotary, Quarter Sessions, and Clerk of Courts functions. Those divisions explain why one counter may handle divorce decrees, civil subpoenas, summary appeals, criminal costs, and older public road or bridge records.

The official office page lists the local duties, forms, fees, filing notice, and related court access links.

Open the Huntingdon County Prothonotary / Clerk of Courts page.

Use that office page for current local forms and fee links before mailing or filing a request.

Huntingdon County Prothonotary Civil Records Duties

The Prothonotary side dockets, indexes, and maintains civil actions in the Court of Common Pleas. These Huntingdon County Prothonotary records include appeals, equity actions, custody, divorce, protection from abuse, judgments, federal tax liens, UCC financing statements, support actions, and civil filings that begin by writ, complaint, or other pleading.

The office also issues and indexes writs of execution for sheriff sales, writs of summons, and writs of renewal. It records oaths of office, issues civil subpoenas on attorney request, notarizes papers, appoints arbitrators and boards of viewers in certain civil actions, prepares certified divorce decrees, registers notary signatures, assists the public with abuse petitions, forwards abuse-case data to Pennsylvania State Police, and sends civil orders to parties or counsel.

Huntingdon County Clerk of Courts and Quarter Sessions Records

The Clerk of Courts side maintains criminal cases received from the three Magisterial District Judge offices. It accepts bail when appropriate, issues bench warrants at the request of the District Attorney or Probation Department, maintains juvenile dependency and delinquency proceedings subject to access limits, attends criminal trials as officer of the court, swears witnesses and jury panels, announces verdicts, assesses costs and fines, reports motor-vehicle charge outcomes to PennDOT, compiles AOPC disposition and sentence data, issues criminal subpoenas, dockets summary appeals, and conducts certain criminal record searches for agencies and organizations.

Quarter Sessions records are a separate public-record category within the same office. They include municipal ordinances or resolutions about streets, roads, and bridges, petitions to open or close roads, private detective license applications, annual municipal audit reports, lists of constables and tax collectors, bond information, oaths of office, election inspector and judge appointments, and school police officer appointments.

How to Request a Certified Copy from Huntingdon County

Certified copies are often needed for divorce decrees, judgments, dispositions, appeals, and other official filings. A certified copy confirms that the copy came from the court record custodian. The Prothonotary / Clerk of Courts should be given enough identifiers to locate the exact docket and document.

1. Identify whether the record is civil, divorce, custody, PFA, criminal, summary appeal, or another Common Pleas filing.
2. Search UJS Case Search for a docket number when public docket information is available.
3. Contact the Prothonotary / Clerk of Courts by phone, mail, email, or courthouse counter with party names and the document requested.
4. Confirm the current copy, certification, mailing, and payment requirements before sending funds.
5. Request certified handling specifically, because a plain copy is not the same as a certified court copy.

Huntingdon County Public Access Request Form Fields

The county forms page links the written request route for access to case records. The Right-to-Know form is used for agency records and is not a substitute for sealed court access, but its field structure shows the level of detail requesters should be ready to provide.

Huntingdon County Prothonotary / Clerk of Courts Fees

The 2026 fee schedule is effective January 1, 2026. Fees can depend on the number of counts, claims, copies, or services requested, so confirm totals with the office before filing by mail.

Huntingdon County Clerk Forms and Access Channels

Access channels include UJS docket sheets for public docket information, PAePay for eligible online payments, the courthouse counter during business hours, mail requests to the Prothonotary / Clerk of Courts, the written public access request route for case records, and Right-to-Know requests for county agency records that are not court case records. For probate or marriage matters, use Huntingdon County Orphans' Court records instead of the Prothonotary.

The county forms page includes public access forms, custody forms, divorce materials, criminal forms, expungement packets, transcript forms, language access, and ADA links. Judges and chambers staff cannot discuss cases, read case-related emails or letters, or respond to public comments on pending cases. All court filings must be made through the Prothonotary's Office, and court personnel cannot give legal advice.

UJS payment information explains online payment options for court obligations.

Review UJS payment information for court fines, costs, restitution, bail, and related obligations.

Online payment availability does not replace the need to contact the filing office for certified copies or case-specific filing questions.