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TO- BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Phil Batchelor Contra
County Administrator
Costa
DATE' April 14, 1987 County
SUBJECT:
Legislation: Assembly Bill 404 (Chandler)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(-S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION•
Adopt a position in support of AB 404 which would give the Board
of Supervisors the option of excluding the fee for the
maintenance of the law library from the maximum civil filing fee
otherwise provided for in law and imposing the fee in addition to
that maximum, or to include the law library fee within the
existing maximum fee.
BACKGROUND:
Under existing law, the Board of Supervisors is authorized to
impose a civil filing fee of up to $12. 00 for specified filings
in civil actions for support of the law library. Existing law,
however, specifies the maximum civil filing fee which can be
established under various circumstances. Also under current law
certain fees can be exempted from the maximum civil filing fee.
These include the .fee to support conciliation court programs and
the fee for automation and conversion of court records to
micrographics.
AB 404 has been introduced by Assemblyman Chandler. AB 404 would
add the law library fee to the list of fees which may be excluded
from the maximum civil filing fee. This would allow the Board of
Supervisors the discretion of either including the law library
fee within the statutory maximum, or excluding the law library
fee from the statutory maximum and imposing it in addition to the
statutory maximum.
The law library trustees and the Municipal Court recommend that
the Board of Supervisors support AB 404 and this office concurs
with that recommendation. It is estimated that imposing the law
library fee on top of the maximum civil filing fee would generate
$200,000 of additional revenue annually in the Superior Court and
$120,000 of additional revenue annually in the Municipal Court.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: _ YES SIGNATURE:
X_ RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
X APPROVE OTHER
S I GNATURE(S 1: le
ACTION OF BOARD ON April 21 , 1987 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
XUNANIMOUS (ABSENT AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES; NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
County Administrator Assemblyman Chandl9ArTESTED APR 2 11987
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Roy Chiesa, W.C.-Danville Muni Ct. PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
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