KRS 42.320: Court cost distribution fund -- Disbursements -- Payments into general

fund.

(1) 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.

(2) 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 ea ch 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 Loc al 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 Dep artment of 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 49.480;

(h) Seven-tenths of one p ercent (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 c ounty for the purposes

of defraying the costs of operation of the county jail and the transportation of

prisoners.

(3) Any moneys remaining in the fund after the monthly disbursements in subsection

(2) of this section shall be paid into the general fund.

(4) Any moneys collected above the prescribed amount shall be paid into the general

fund.