Ellis County Commissioners are considering a county child safty fee of $1.50.
The Question posed to the Attorney General: What can a county do with this local county safety registration fee?
What’s the beef? This is all about revenue sharing. Do the counties need to share with municipalities?
What’s happening with this revenue now? 2 approaches after deducting the county administrtive costs:
(1) the county may use revenue generated from the fee for purposes permitted by Article 102.014(g), Code of Criminal Procedure, without sending any portion of the fee revenue to the municipalities.
(2) the county also gets to deduct fee revenue proportional to the percentage of county residents living in the unincorporated areas, the remainder of the fee revenue must be se t to the municipalities according to their population