Section 93.141. Annual registration

(a) General rule. Enforcement Rule 219(a) provides that every attorney admitted to practice law in this Commonwealth shall pay an annual fee of $130.00 and file the annual fee form provided for under such rule; that the fee shall be collected under the supervision of the Attorney Registration Office, which shall send or cause to be sent to every attorney, except an attorney who has elected to file the form electronically, the annual fee form; that the Attorney Registration Office shall transmit to those attorneys who have elected to file the form electronically a notice by e-mail to register by July 1; that failure to receive the annual fee form by mail or electronically shall not excuse payment of the fee; and that the fee shall be used to defray the costs of disciplinary administration and enforcement under the Enforcement Rules, and for such other purposes as the Board shall, with the approval of the Supreme Court, from time to time determine.

(b) Inapplicable to justices and judges. Enforcement Rule 219(b) provides that the following shall be exempt from the annual fee:

(1) Justices or judges serving in the following Pennsylvania courts of record shall be exempt for such time as they serve in office: Supreme, Superior, Commonwealth, Common Pleas, and Philadelphia Municipal; and justices or judges serving an appointment for life on any federal court;

(2) retired attorneys; and

(3) military attorneys holding a limited certificate of admission issued under Pa.B.A.R. 303 (relating to admission of military attorneys).

Official Note

The exemption created by subdivision (b)(1) does not include Philadelphia Traffic Court judges, Pittsburgh Municipal Court judges, magisterial district judges, arraignment court magistrates or administrative law judges.

The provisions of this § 93.141 amended through May 4, 1984, effective July 1, 1984, 14 Pa.B. 1547; amended October 13, 1989, effective July 1, 1989, 19 Pa.B. 4448; amended March 13, 1991, effective with respect to assessment years commencing July 1, 1991 and thereafter, 21 Pa.B. 5325; amended April 12, 2002, effective immediately, 32 Pa.B. 1838; amended August 5, 2005, effective September 1, 2005, 35 Pa.B. 4301; amended May 29, 2009, effective May 30, 2009, 39 Pa.B. 2687; amended August 7, 2009, effective immediately, 39 Pa.B. 4725; amended August 6, 2011, effective immediately, 41 Pa.B. 4202; amended November 2, 2012, effective November 3, 2012, 42 Pa.B. 6864. Immediately preceding text appears at serial pages (358109) to (358110).