California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 8 - Revenue

• Section 6140.
  (a) The board shall fix the annual membership fee for active members for 2018 at a sum not exceeding three hundred fifteen dollars ($315).(b) The annual membership...
• Section 6140.02.
  (a) The Association shall adopt a dues schedule for membership and shall provide that schedule to the State Bar by October 1 of each year.(b) Payment of...
• Section 6140.03.
  (a) The board shall increase each of the annual membership fees fixed by Sections 6140 and 6141 by an additional forty dollars ($40), to be allocated...
• Section 6140.05.
  (a) The invoice provided to members for payment of the annual membership fee shall provide each member the option of deducting five dollars ($5) from the...
• Section 6140.1.
  The State Bar annually shall submit its proposed baseline budget for the following fiscal year to the Legislature by November 15, and its proposed final...
• Section 6140.12.
  The board shall complete and implement a five-year strategic plan to be updated every two years. In conjunction with the submission of the board’s proposed...
• Section 6140.16.
  (a) To align its staffing with its mission to protect the public as provided in Section 6001.1 and to provide guidance to the State Bar and...
• Section 6140.2.
  The State Bar shall set as a goal the improvement of its disciplinary system so that no more than six months will elapse from the...
• Section 6140.37.
  The State Bar shall have a preference for using in-house employees for information technology projects, whenever possible. Nothing in this section shall be read to...
• Section 6140.5.
  (a) The board shall establish and administer a Client Security Fund to relieve or mitigate pecuniary losses caused by the dishonest conduct of active members of...
• Section 6140.55.
  The board may increase the annual membership fees fixed by it pursuant to Section 6140 by an additional amount per active member not to exceed...
• Section 6140.56.
  (a) To ensure that the Client Security Fund can adequately protect the public and relieve or mitigate financial losses caused by the dishonest conduct of members...
• Section 6140.6.
  The board may increase the annual membership fees fixed by Sections 6140 and 6141 by an additional amount not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25) to...
• Section 6140.7.
  Costs assessed against a member publicly reproved or suspended, where suspension is stayed and the member is not actually suspended, shall be added to and...
• Section 6140.9.
  Moneys for the support of the program established pursuant to Article 15 (commencing with Section 6230) and related programs approved by the committee established pursuant...
• Section 6141.
  (a)  Until December 31, 2006, the board shall fix the annual membership fee for inactive members at a sum not exceeding sixty-five dollars ($65). On...
• Section 6141.1.
  (a) The payment by any member of the annual membership fee, any portion thereof, or any penalty thereon, may be waived by the board as it...
• Section 6141.3.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the State Bar shall provide offers of discounts and other benefits to active and inactive members of the State...
• Section 6142.
  Upon the payment of the annual membership fees, including any costs imposed pursuant to Section 6140.7, and penalties imposed pursuant to Section 6143, each member...
• Section 6143.
  Any member, active or inactive, failing to pay any fees, penalties, or costs after they become due, and after two months written notice of his...
• Section 6143.5.
  Any member, active or inactive, failing to pay any child support after it becomes due shall be subject to Section 17520 of the Family Code.(Amended...
• Section 6144.
  (a) All fees shall be paid into the treasury of the State Bar, and, when so paid, shall become part of its funds.(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) and...
• Section 6144.1.
  The net proceeds from the sale of real property, after payment of obligations and encumbrances and reasonable costs of acquiring and relocating its facilities, if...
• Section 6144.5.
  It is the intent of the Legislature to confirm, validate, and declare effective the annual membership fees, and all augmentations, including, but not limited to,...
• Section 6145.
  (a) The board shall engage the services of an independent national or regional public accounting firm with at least five years of experience in governmental auditing...

Last modified: October 22, 2018