North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 27 - STATE BAR › Chapter 01 - RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE BAR › Subchapter A - ORGANIZATION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE BAR › Section .0900 - ORGANIZATION OF THE JUDICIAL DISTRICT BARS › Section 01A .0902 - ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP FEE

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
If a judicial district bar elects to assess an annual
					 membership fee from its active members pursuant to N.C.G.S. §
										84-18.1(b), the
					 following procedures shall apply:
(a)
				  Notice to State Bar. The judicial district bar shall notify the North Carolina
				  State Bar of its election to assess an annual membership fee each year at least
				  thirty days prior to mailing to its members the first invoice therefore,
				  specifying the amount of the annual membership fee, the date after which
				  payment will be delinquent, and the amount of any late fee for delinquent
				  payment.
(b) Accounting to State
				  Bar. No later than thirty days after the end of the judicial district bar's
				  fiscal year, the judicial district bar shall provide the North Carolina State
				  Bar with an accounting of the annual membership fees it collected during such
				  judicial district bar's fiscal year.
(c) Delinquency Date. The date upon which the
				  annual membership fee shall be delinquent if not paid shall be not later than
				  ninety days after, and not sooner than thirty days after, the date of the first
				  invoice for the annual membership fee. The delinquency date shall be stated on
				  the invoice and the invoice shall advise each member that failure to pay the
				  annual membership fee must be reported to the North Carolina State Bar and may
				  result in suspension of the member's license to practice law.
(d) Late Fee. Each judicial district bar may
				  impose, but shall not be required, to impose a late fee of any amount not to
				  exceed fifteen dollars ($15.00) for non-payment of the annual membership fee on
				  or before the stated delinquency date.
(e) Members Subject to Assessment. Only those
				  lawyers who are active members of a judicial district bar may be assessed an
				  annual membership fee.
(f) Members
				  Exempt from Assessment.
(1) A person licensed
				  to practice law in North Carolina for the first time by examination is not
				  liable for judicial district bar membership fees during the year in which the
				  person is admitted;
(2) A person
				  licensed to practice law in North Carolina serving in the United States Armed
				  Forces, whether in a legal or nonlegal capacity, is exempt from judicial
				  district bar membership fees for any year in which the member serves some
				  portion thereof on full-time active duty in military service;
(3) A lawyer who joins a judicial district
				  bar after the beginning of its fiscal year is exempt from the obligation to pay
				  the annual membership fee for that fiscal year only if the lawyer can
				  demonstrate that he or she previously paid an annual membership fee to another
				  judicial district bar with a fiscal year that runs conterminously, for a period
				  of three (3) months or more, with the fiscal year of the lawyer's new judicial
				  district bar.