(a) (1) Until the end of the moratorium described in Section 70601 of the Government Code, the board of supervisors of any county may increase, as provided in this section, the amount distributed to its county law library fund from the uniform filing fees listed in Section 6321 whenever it determines that the increase is necessary to defray the expenses of the law library.
(2) Any increase in the amount distributed to the law library fund in any county under this subdivision shall not be effective until January 1 of the next year after the adoption by the board of supervisors of the increase. The amount of the increase in any calendar year shall be no greater than three dollars ($3) over the previous calendar year. A copy of the action of the board of supervisors that establishes the increase shall be provided to the Administrative Office of the Courts as soon as it becomes available but no later than December 15 of the year before the increased distribution goes into effect.
(b) Distribution changes after January 1, 2008, shall be determined by the process described in Section 70601 of the Government Code.
(c) (1) In an action or proceeding in which a claim for money damages falls within the monetary jurisdiction of the small claims court and is filed by an assignee who is prohibited from filing or maintaining a claim pursuant to Section 116.420 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the uniform filing fee shall be reduced by twenty-four dollars ($24) to one hundred eighty-one dollars ($181) if the complaint contains a declaration under penalty of perjury, executed by the party requesting the reduction in fees, that the case qualifies for the lower fee because the claim for money damages will not exceed the monetary jurisdiction of small claims court and is filed by an assignee of the claim.
(2) When the uniform filing fee is reduced as provided under this subdivision, the amount distributed from each uniform filing fee to the law library fund in the county shall be as follows:
Jurisdiction
Amount
Alameda
$12.00
Alpine
1.00
Amador
6.00
Butte
12.00
Calaveras
7.00
Colusa
12.00
Contra Costa
8.00
Del Norte
6.00
El Dorado
9.00
Fresno
9.00
Glenn
6.00
Humboldt
12.00
Imperial
12.00
Inyo
6.00
Kern
12.00
Kings
12.00
Lake
12.00
Lassen
12.00
Los Angeles
5.00
Madera
12.00
Marin
12.00
Mariposa
4.00
Mendocino
12.00
Merced
12.00
Modoc
6.00
Mono
6.00
Monterey
10.00
Napa
12.00
Nevada
7.00
Orange
8.00
Placer
7.00
Plumas
6.00
Riverside
12.00
Sacramento
8.50
San Benito
6.00
San Bernardino
12.00
San Diego
12.00
San Francisco
12.00
San Joaquin
10.00
San Luis Obispo
12.00
San Mateo
12.00
Santa Barbara
12.00
Santa Clara
8.00
Santa Cruz
12.00
Shasta
8.50
Sierra
9.00
Siskiyou
8.00
Solano
9.00
Sonoma
12.00
Stanislaus
6.50
Sutter
1.00
Tehama
9.00
Trinity
6.00
Tulare
12.00
Tuolumne
2.00
Ventura
12.00
Yolo
10.00
Yuba
7.00
The increases described in subdivision (a) do not apply to the law library distributions in this subdivision.
(3) Notwithstanding subdivision (d) of Section 68085.4 of the Government Code, when the uniform filing fee is reduced as provided in this subdivision, the amounts distributed to dispute resolution programs, the State Court Facilities Construction Fund, the Judges’ Retirement Fund, children’s waiting rooms, and the Equal Access Fund shall remain as provided under subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 68085.4 of the Government Code and shall not be changed. Only the amounts distributed to the Trial Court Trust Fund, the law libraries, and the State Court Facilities Construction Fund shall be adjusted. The amount distributed from each uniform filing fee under this section to the State Court Facilities Construction Fund, established in Section 70371 of the Government Code, shall be thirty-one dollars ($31). If the fee is further reduced below one hundred eighty-one dollars ($181), as with a partial waiver or partial payment, the proportional reductions described in subdivision (g) of Section 68085.1 of the Government Code shall apply.
(d) Distributions under this section to the law library fund in each county shall be used only for the purposes authorized by this chapter.
(e) As used in this section and Section 6321, “law library fund” includes a law library account described in the second paragraph of Section 6320.