<br><br> <br>Page 1 of 1 <br>27A.630 Access to Justice Fee -- Deposit in State Treasury -- Distribution of fees <br>collected -- Funding of legal services for children. <br>(1) Upon receipt of notice of designation of an agency by the circuit clerk, there shall <br>be added to the filing fee in all civil actions filed in Circuit Court the sum of twenty <br>dollars ($20), and to all civil actions filed in District Court, the sum of ten dollars <br>($10). No fee shall be charged for actions filed in neglect and dependency cases. <br>This fee shall be designated as the Access to Justice Fee, and shall be charged at the <br>time of filing of the first papers in the action. <br>(2) All fees collected pursuant to subsection (1) of this section during each month shall <br>be placed in the general fund of the State Treasury, and appropriated in accordance <br>with subsection (3) of this section. The clerks shall make a full report with the <br>payment and receive a receipt for all payments. <br>(3) Fees collected shall be distributed monthly to the designated agencies on a pro rata <br>basis, utilizing an allocation formula that distributes funds for each judicial district <br>served, according to the proportion of the number of residents of that judicial <br>district whose incomes are less than the official United States federal poverty <br>guidelines, based on latest published United States census data, as a percentage of <br>the total number of these residents in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. These funds <br>shall be used by the designated agency to carry out the duties prescribed in KRS <br>27A.610. <br>(4) All unused or uncommitted funds received by a designated agency during its fiscal <br>year shall be returned by the designated agency to the State Treasury, to be <br>redistributed in the following calendar quarter to operating designated agencies in <br>accordance with administrative regulations promulgated by the Administrative <br>Office of the Courts. <br>(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (1) to (4) of this section, an amount <br>not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) from the fee imposed under <br>subsection (1) of this section shall be appropriated to organizations that specialize <br>in providing legal representation and services to children. <br>Effective: June 24, 2003 <br>History: Amended 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 120, sec. 1, effective June 24, 2003. -- Created <br>1994 Ky. Acts ch. 338, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1994. <br><br>