§ 908. Attorneys’ Admission, Licensing, and Professional Responsibility Special Fund

There is established the Attorneys’ Admission, Licensing, and Professional Responsibility Special Fund that shall be managed in accordance with 32 Vt. Stat. Ann. chapter 7, subchapter 5. Fees collected for licensing of attorneys, administration of the bar examination, admitting attorneys to practice in Vermont, and administration of mandatory continuing legal education shall be deposited and credited to this Fund. This Fund shall be available to the Judicial Branch to offset the cost of operating the Professional Responsibility Board, the Board of Bar Examiners, the Judicial Conduct Board, the Committee on Character and Fitness, the mandatory continuing legal education program for attorneys and, at the discretion of the Supreme Court, to make grants for access to justice programs or to the Vermont Bar Foundation to be used to support legal services for the disadvantaged. (Added 2005, No. 215 (Adj. Sess.), § 60; amended 2013, No. 67, § 10.)