Bill Text: NC S633 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Reduce Annual State Bar Fees
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-20 - Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate [S633 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2017-S633-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2017
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SENATE BILL 633
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Short Title: Reduce Annual State Bar Fees. |
(Public) |
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Sponsors: |
Senators B. Jackson, Rabon, Tucker (Primary Sponsors); and Waddell. |
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Referred to: |
Rules and Operations of the Senate |
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April 5, 2017
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to reduce the annual fees charged by the North Carolina state bar.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 84‑34 reads as rewritten:
"§ 84‑34. Membership fees and list of members.
Every active member of the North
Carolina State Bar shall, prior to the first day of July of each year, pay to
the secretary‑treasurer an annual membership fee in an amount determined
by the Council but not to exceed three hundred dollars ($300.00), fifty
dollars ($50.00), and every member shall notify the secretary‑treasurer
of the member's correct mailing address. Any member who fails to pay the
required dues by the last day of June of each year shall be subject to a late
fee in an amount determined by the Council but not to exceed thirty dollars
($30.00). five dollars ($5.00). All dues for prior years shall be as
were set forth in the General Statutes then in effect. The membership fee shall
be regarded as a service charge for the maintenance of the several services
authorized by this Article, and shall be in addition to all fees required in
connection with admissions to practice, and in addition to all license taxes
required by law. The fee shall not be prorated: Provided, that no fee shall be
required of an attorney licensed after this Article shall have gone into effect
until the first day of January of the calendar year following that in which the
attorney was licensed; but this proviso shall not apply to attorneys from other
states admitted on certificate. The fees shall be disbursed by the secretary‑treasurer
on the order of the Council. The secretary‑treasurer shall annually, at a
time and in a law magazine or daily newspaper to be prescribed by the Council,
publish an account of the financial transactions of the Council in a form to be
prescribed by it. The secretary‑treasurer shall compile and keep
currently correct from the names and mailing addresses forwarded to the
secretary‑treasurer and from any other available sources of information a
list of members of the North Carolina State Bar and furnish to the clerk of the
superior court in each county, not later than the first day of October in each
year, a list showing the name and address of each attorney for that county who
has not complied with the provisions of this Article. The name of each of the
active members who are in arrears in the payment of membership fees shall be
furnished to the presiding judge at the next term of the superior court after
the first day of October of each year, by the clerk of the superior court of
each county wherein the member or members reside, and the court shall thereupon
take action that is necessary and proper. The names and addresses of attorneys
so certified shall be kept available to the public. The Secretary of Revenue is
hereby directed to supply the secretary‑treasurer, from records of
license tax payments, with any information for which the secretary‑treasurer
may call in order to enable the secretary‑treasurer to comply with this
requirement.
The list submitted to several clerks of the superior court shall also be submitted to the Council at its October meeting of each year and it shall take the action thereon that is necessary and proper."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2017.
