(a) (1) There is hereby created in each town or city which operates a district court a fund in the office of the city treasurer to be known as the “city administration of justice fund”.(2) (A) A town or city operating a city court that becomes a department of district court shall continue to maintain the city administration of justice fund as originally established by this section.(B) The city administration of justice fund of any town or city shall cease to exist on and after the effective date of the ordinance that abolishes the department of district court for that town or city pursuant to state law.
(1) There is hereby created in each town or city which operates a district court a fund in the office of the city treasurer to be known as the “city administration of justice fund”.
(2) (A) A town or city operating a city court that becomes a department of district court shall continue to maintain the city administration of justice fund as originally established by this section.(B) The city administration of justice fund of any town or city shall cease to exist on and after the effective date of the ordinance that abolishes the department of district court for that town or city pursuant to state law.
(A) A town or city operating a city court that becomes a department of district court shall continue to maintain the city administration of justice fund as originally established by this section.
(B) The city administration of justice fund of any town or city shall cease to exist on and after the effective date of the ordinance that abolishes the department of district court for that town or city pursuant to state law.
(b) The city administration of justice fund shall be used to defray a part of the expense of the administration of justice in the town or city. From the city administration of justice fund, the town or city shall finance the following town or city agencies and programs and district court costs:(1) The municipal court judge and clerk retirement fund for disbursement as otherwise provided by law;(2) The police and fire pension fund;(3) The intoxication detection equipment fund;(4) All municipal-level programs and agencies funded in whole or in part by court costs and filing fees assessed and collected by the district court, notwithstanding the repeal by this act of laws authorizing the collection of court costs and filing fees;(5) All county-level programs and agencies funded in whole or in part by court costs and filing fees assessed and collected by the district court, notwithstanding the repeal by this act of laws authorizing the collection of court costs and filing fees and the disbursement of all or a part thereof to the county;(6) Operating costs of the district court;(7) Cost-sharing agreements related to the operation of the district court; and(8) Any other necessary costs associated with the administration of justice in the city or town.
(1) The municipal court judge and clerk retirement fund for disbursement as otherwise provided by law;
(2) The police and fire pension fund;
(3) The intoxication detection equipment fund;
(4) All municipal-level programs and agencies funded in whole or in part by court costs and filing fees assessed and collected by the district court, notwithstanding the repeal by this act of laws authorizing the collection of court costs and filing fees;
(5) All county-level programs and agencies funded in whole or in part by court costs and filing fees assessed and collected by the district court, notwithstanding the repeal by this act of laws authorizing the collection of court costs and filing fees and the disbursement of all or a part thereof to the county;
(6) Operating costs of the district court;
(7) Cost-sharing agreements related to the operation of the district court; and
(8) Any other necessary costs associated with the administration of justice in the city or town.
(c) The city administration of justice fund of each town or city may retain an amount equal to but no more than fifty percent (50%) of uniform court costs and filing fees that are collected.
(d) Nothing in this act shall prevent the town or city from funding any additional costs for the administration of justice from other town or city funds.
(e) The town or city shall remit, on or before the fifteenth day of each month, fifty percent (50%) of the moneys collected during the previous month from the uniform filing fees provided for in § 16-17-705 and the uniform court costs provided for in § 16-10-305 to the Administration of Justice Funds Section for deposit into the State Administration of Justice Fund.