The seventy dollar filing fee for documents and actions described in Section 8-21-310(11)(a) must be remitted to the county in which the proceeding is instituted and fifty-six percent of these filing fee revenues must be delivered to the county treasurer to be remitted monthly by the fifteenth day of each month to the State Treasurer. When a payment is made to the county in installments, the State's portion must be remitted to the State Treasurer by the county treasurer on a monthly basis.
- (1) 45.03 percent to the state general fund;
- (2) 10.33 percent to the Department of Mental Health to be used exclusively for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts within the department's addiction center facilities;
- (3) 6.38 percent to the State Office of Victim Assistance under the South Carolina Victim's Compensation Fund; and
- (4) 38.26 percent to the Defense of Indigents Per Capita Fund, administered by the Commission on Indigent Defense, which shall then distribute these funds on December thirty-first and on June thirtieth of each year to South Carolina organizations that are grantees of the Legal Services Corporation, in amounts proportionate to each recipient's share of the state's poverty population.
The fifty-six percent of the seventy dollar fee prescribed in Section 8-21-310(11)(a) remitted to the State Treasurer must be deposited as follows: