[Editor's note: This section is effective January 1, 2023.] (1) The state court administrator shall determine and collect fees to cover the associated costs for submitting the following:
(a) A filing statement, including the attached electronic estate planning document; (b) A request for retrieval; and (c) A request for deletion.
The fees established pursuant to this section must be based on the actual cost of the submission.
The state court administrator shall transmit fees collected pursuant to this section to the statetreasurer, who shall credit them to the electronic preservation of abandoned estate planning documents cash fund created in subsection (4) of this section.
The electronic preservation of abandoned estate planning documents cash fund, referred toin this subsection (4) as the "fund", is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund consists of money credited to the fund pursuant to subsection (3) of this section and any other money that the general assembly may appropriate or transfer to the fund. The state treasurer shall credit all interest and income derived from the deposit and investment of money in the fund to the fund. Subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly, the judicial department may expend money from the fund for the administration of this article 23.
Source: L. 2019: Entire article added, (HB 19-1229), ch. 252, p. 2440, § 1, effective January 1, 2023.