209.160 Spouse abuse shelter fund -- Department of Revenue to administer -- Cabinet for Health and Family Services to use -- Primary service providers. - Kentucky Statutes

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209.160 Spouse abuse shelter fund -- Department of Revenue to administer -- Cabinet for Health and Family Services to use -- Primary service providers. (1) There is hereby created a trust and agency account in the State Treasury to be known as the domestic violence shelter fund. Each county clerk shall remit to the
fund, by the tenth of the month, ten dollars ($10) from each twenty-four dollars
($24) collected during the previous month from the issuance of marriage licenses.
The fund shall be administered by the Department of Revenue. The Cabinet for
Health and Family Services shall use the funds for the purpose of providing
protective shelter services for domestic violence victims. (2) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall designate one (1) nonprofit corporation in each area development district to serve as the primary service
provider and regional planning authority for domestic violence shelter, crisis, and
advocacy services in the district in which the designated provider is located. Effective: June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 624, effective June 20, 2005; ch. 99, sec. 295, effective June 20, 2005; and ch. 132, sec. 28, effective June 20, 2005. --
Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 240, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1994
Ky. Acts ch. 428, sec. 35, effective July 15, 1994.