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SCR 2.002 FISCAL PROVISIONS
(1) The fees collected for the Board of Bar Examiners
and the Character and Fitness Committee shall constitute a fund to provide for
the ordinary and necessary expenses of the administration of the bar examination
and the operation of both the Board and the Committee.
(2) An annual budget including all income and expenditures shall be
prepared by the Board and the Committee and submitted to the Supreme Court not
less than four (4) months prior to the commencement of the next fiscal
year. The budget
shall distinctly set forth expected revenues according to source, together with
carryover funds from the previous year, and shall list budgeted amounts for each
category of expenditure in sufficient detail to identify clearly the nature of
the respective expenditures.
(3) Upon approval by the Court, the budget shall govern the fiscal
operation of the Board and the Committee. Each expenditure category may be
increased or decreased by not more than ten (10) percent. Further departure from
the budget
allotment may be made only upon the approval of the Court.
(4) All fees collected by the Clerk for the Board and the
Committee shall be recorded in a cash receipts journal and deposited in a joint
account of the Board of Bar Examiners and Character and Fitness Committee.
Each repository of
funds and each bank account shall be designated by the Board and the
Committee and approved by the Court.
(5) All disbursements shall be in accordance with the budget and
recorded in the cash disbursements journal. Checks shall bear such
signatures and counter signatures as the Board and the Committee shall direct.
(6) At least once each quarter a financial report shall be
prepared at the direction of the Board and the Committee and transmitted to the
Court.
(7) Each member of the Board and the Committee and each employee
given responsibility by the Board and the Committee for the receipt or
disbursement of funds shall be bonded in an amount specified by the Board and
the Committee.
(8) There shall be an annual audit of the Board and the Committee
by the Administrative Office of the Courts or, at the election of the Board and
the Committee, a private accounting firm approved by the Court. The report
of the audit shall be paid for by the Board and the Committee.
(9) The Board and the Committee may employ such personnel as the
Court authorizes. Their compensation shall be fixed by the Board and the
Committee subject to approval by the Court. The compensation of members of
the Board and Committee shall be fixed by the Court.
(10) Printing and purchasing shall be regulated by procedures
established through the Administrative Office of the Courts except that the
duplicating of bar examinations shall be accomplished in such manner as the
Board designates in
order to preserve the security thereof.
[Adopted effective February 1, 1981; amended effective August 1,
1992]
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