2005 Arizona Revised Statutes - Revised Statutes §12-117  Public defender training fund; appropriation

A. The public defender training fund is established consisting of monies allocated to the fund pursuant to section 12-116. The supreme court shall administer the fund.

B. Each month the supreme court shall deposit in the fund the monies collected for the fund. All monies deposited in the fund are continuously appropriated to the supreme court for distribution to each county public defender and the state capital postconviction public defender office as provided in subsection C of this section.

C. The allocation of monies collected shall be made to each county public defender office and the state capital postconviction public defender office in proportion to the number of felony cases assigned to that office in the last fiscal year.

D. Monies received shall be used exclusively for the purpose of public defender training. Each public defender office receiving training fund monies shall submit to the supreme court an annual report of all financial receipts and expenditures from the training fund.