North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 27 - STATE BAR › Chapter 01 - RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE BAR › Subchapter D - RULES OF THE STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE BAR › Section .1600 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE ADMINITRATION OF THE CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION PROGRAM › Section 01D .1606 - FEES

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) Sponsor Fee - The sponsor fee, a charge
				  paid directly by the sponsor, shall be paid by all sponsors of approved
				  programs presented in North Carolina and by registered sponsors located in
				  North Carolina for approved programs wherever presented, except that no sponsor
				  fee is required where approved programs are offered without charge to
				  attendees. In any other instance, payment of the fee by the sponsor is
				  optional. The amount of the fee, per approved CLE hour per active member of the
				  North Carolina State Bar in attendance, is $3.50. This amount shall be
				  allocated as follows: $1.25 to the Board of Continuing Legal Education to
				  administer the CLE program; $1.00 to the Chief Justice's Commission on
				  Professionalism; $1.00 to the North Carolina Equal Access to Justice
				  Commission; and $.25 to the State Bar to administer the funds distributed to
				  the commissions. The fee is computed as shown in the following formula and
				  example which assumes a 6-hour program attended by 100 North Carolina lawyers
				  seeking CLE credit:
Fee: $3.50 x Total Approved CLE Hours (6) x Number of NC
					 Attendees (100) = Total Sponsor Fee ($2,100)
(b) Attendee Fee - The attendee fee is paid
				  by the North Carolina attorney who requests credit for a program for which no
				  sponsor fee was paid. An attorney will be invoiced for any attendees fees owed
				  following the submission of the attorney's annual report form pursuant to Rule
				  .1522(a) of this subchapter. Payment shall be remitted within 30 (thirty) days
				  of the date of the invoice. The amount of the fee, per approved CLE hour for
				  which the attorney claims credit, is $3.50. This amount shall be allocated as
				  follows: $1.25 to the Board of Continuing Legal Education to administer the CLE
				  program; $1.00 to the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism; $1.00 to
				  the North Carolina Equal Access to Justice Commission; and $0.25 to the State
				  Bar to administer the funds distributed to the commissions. It is computed as
				  shown in the following formula and example which assumes that the attorney
				  attended a program approved for 3 hours of CLE credit:
Fee: $3.50 x Total Approved CLE hours (3.0) = Total
					 Attendee Fee ($10.50)
(c)
				  Fee Review - The board will review the level of the fee at least annually and
				  adjust it as necessary to maintain adequate finances for prudent operation of
				  the board in a nonprofit manner. The council shall annually review the
				  assessments for the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism and the North
				  Carolina Equal Access to Justice Commission and adjust them as necessary to
				  maintain adequate finances for the operation of the commissions.
(d) Uniform Application and Financial
				  Responsibility - The fee shall be applied uniformly without exceptions or other
				  preferential treatment for a sponsor or attendee. The board shall make
				  reasonable efforts to collect the sponsor fee from the sponsor of a CLE program
				  when appropriate under Rule .1606(a) above. However, whenever a sponsor fee is
				  not paid by the sponsor of a program, regardless of the reason, the lawyer
				  requesting CLE credit for the program shall be financially responsible for the
				  fee.
(e) Failure to Timely Pay
				  Sponsor Fee - A sponsor's failure to pay sponsor fees within ninety (90) days
				  following the completion of a program will result in the denial of that
				  sponsor's subsequent program applications until fees are paid.
Authority - Order of
					 the North Carolina Supreme Court, October 7, 1987, 318 N.C. 711;
Readopted Eff. December 8, 1994;
Amendments Approved by the Supreme
					 Court: December 30, 1998; October 1, 2003; February 5, 2009; October 8, 2009;
					 November 5, 2015; April 5, 2018; September 25, 2019; December 14,
					 2021.