2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 42 - FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION CABINET 42.320 Court cost distribution fund -- Disbursements -- Payments into general fund.
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42.320 Court cost distribution fund -- Disbursements -- Payments into general
fund.
(1)
(2)
There is hereby established the court cost distribution fund, which is created to
provide a central account into which the court costs collected by all circuit
clerks, under KRS 23A.205(1) and 24A.175(1), shall be paid.
The fund shall be administered by the Finance and Administration Cabinet,
which shall make monthly disbursements from the fund according to the
following schedule:
(a) Forty-nine percent (49%) of each court cost shall be paid into the general
fund;
(b) Ten and eight-tenths percent (10.8%) of each court cost, up to five million
four hundred thousand dollars ($5,400,000), shall be paid into the State
Treasury for the benefit and use of the Kentucky Local Correctional
Facilities Construction Authority under KRS 441.605 to 441.695;
(c) Six and one-half percent (6.5%) of each court cost, up to three million two
hundred fifty thousand dollars ($3,250,000), shall be paid into the spinal
cord and head injury research trust fund created in KRS 211.504;
(d) Five and one-half percent (5.5%) of each court cost, up to two million
seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($2,750,000), shall be paid into the
traumatic brain injury trust fund created in KRS 211.476;
(e) Five percent (5%) of each court cost, up to two million five hundred
thousand dollars ($2,500,000), shall be paid into a trust and agency
account with the Administrative Office of the Courts and is to be used by
the circuit clerks to hire additional deputy clerks and to enhance deputy
clerk salaries;
(f) Three and one-half percent (3.5%) of each court cost, up to one million
seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($1,750,000), shall be paid to a
special trust and agency account that shall not lapse for the Department
for Public Advocacy;
(g) Three and four-tenths percent (3.4%) of each court cost, up to one million
seven hundred thousand dollars ($1,700,000), shall be paid into the crime
victims' compensation fund created in KRS 346.185;
(h) Seven-tenths of one percent (0.7%) of each court cost, up to three
hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000), shall be paid to the Justice and
Public Safety Cabinet to defray the costs of conducting record checks on
prospective firearms purchasers pursuant to the Brady Handgun Violence
Prevention Act and for the collection, testing, and storing of DNA
samples;
(i) Ten and one-tenth percent (10.1%) of each court cost, up to five million
fifty thousand dollars ($5,050,000), deposited in the fund shall be paid to
the county sheriff in the county from which the court cost was received;
and
(j) Five and one-half percent (5.5%) of each court cost, up to two million
seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($2,750,000), deposited in the fund
shall be paid to the county treasurer in the county from which the court
cost was received and shall be used by the fiscal court in that county for
(3)
(4)
the purposes of defraying the costs of operation of the county jail and the
transportation of prisoners.
Any moneys remaining in the fund after the monthly disbursements in
subsection (2) of this section shall be paid into the general fund.
Any moneys collected above the prescribed amount shall be paid into the
general fund.
Effective:June 26, 2007
History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 123, effective June 26, 2007. -Created 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 183, sec. 9, effective August 1, 2002.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/26/2007). 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85,
relating to the creation and organization of the Justice and Public Safety
Cabinet, instructs the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to
agencies and officers whose names have been changed in that Act. Such a
correction has been made in this section.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2002). This statute number, KRS
42.320, was previously used for a KRS section that was repealed. That earlier
section (1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. VIII, Part I, sec. 1; 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 396,
sec. 5) was repealed by 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 450, sec. 79, effective July 1, 1983.
The catchline at repeal read, "State clearinghouse functions for federal funds."
2012-2014 Budget Reference. See State/Executive Branch Budget, 2012 Ky. Acts
ch. 144, Pt. I, H, 4, (3) at 1129.
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