KRS 209A.045: Domestic violence shelter fund -- Department of Revenue to administer --

Cabinet for Health and Family Services to use -- Primary service providers.

(1) There is hereby created a trust and agency account in the State Treasury to be

known as the domestic violence shelter fund. Each county clerk shall remit to the

fund, by the tenth of the month, ten dollars ($10) collected during the previous

month from the issuance or amending of marriage licenses. The fund shall be

administered by the Depart ment of Revenue. The Cabinet for Health and Family

Services shall use the funds for the purpose of providing protective shelter services

for domestic violence victims.

(2) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall designate one (1) nonprofit

corporation in each area development district to serve as the primary service

provider and regional planning authority for domestic violence shelter, crisis, and

advocacy services in the district in which the designated provider is located.