2011 California Code
Business and Professions Code
DIVISION 3. PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY [5000 - 9998.8]
ARTICLE 8. Revenue
Section 6140.3
(a) The board may increase the annual membership fee fixed by Section 6140 and the annual membership fee specified in Section 6141 by an additional amount not exceeding ten dollars ($10). This additional amount may be used only for (1) the costs of financing, constructing, purchasing, or leasing facilities to house State Bar staff and (2) any major capital improvement projects related to facilities owned by the bar.
(b) Funds collected pursuant to subdivision (a) between January 1, 2009, and December 31, 2013, may only be used for the construction, purchase, or lease of a facility in southern California upon the expiration of the State Bar s existing lease of a facility in Los Angeles in January 2014. The board shall report to the Assembly Committee on Judiciary and the Senate Committee on Judiciary on or before April 1, 2009, and annually thereafter, on its preliminary plans for determining whether to construct, purchase, or lease a facility in southern California. At least 60 days, or 90 days if the 60th day would occur when the Legislature has adjourned for the fall or final recess, prior to entering into any agreement for the purchase of a facility in southern California, the board shall submit its proposed decision and cost estimate for the facility to the Assembly Committee on Judiciary and the Senate Committee on Judiciary for review. If the board does not enter into an agreement to purchase a facility in southern California and the Legislature does not, by a later enacted statute, authorize use of the funds collected pursuant to this section to construct or lease a facility, those funds shall be applied as a one-time credit to each member s annual dues in the amount paid by that member.
(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2014, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2014, deletes or extends that date.
(Added by Stats. 2008, Ch. 165, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2009. Repealed as of January 1, 2014, by its own provisions.)
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