2.007 Qualification, compensation, and expenses of board of bar examiners and character and fitness committee
II Admission of Persons to Practice Law
Rule Text
Each member of the Board of Bar Examiners and each attorney member of the Character and Fitness Committee shall have the qualifications of a circuit judge and shall be an active member of the Kentucky Bar in good standing. Except for compensated expenses and allowances for services rendered as members of the Board and of the Committee as authorized by the Supreme Court to be paid out of special funds for such purposes, no member of the Board of Bar Examiners and no member of the Character and Fitness Committee shall knowingly receive, or agree to receive, directly or indirectly, compensation for any services rendered or to be rendered, either by himself/herself or another, in any matter which is before the Kentucky Supreme Court relating to the admission of a person to practice law in this state. As appointees of the Supreme Court, neither the members of the Board of Bar Examiners nor the members of the Character and Fitness Committee constitute officers or employees of any agency within the meaning of KRS 45A.335 and 45A.340.
Note: Former Rules of Appellate Procedure (RAP) were amended and redesignated as Rules of the Supreme Court (SCR) by Order of the Supreme Court effective January 1, 1978. Prior Rules of the Court of Appeals (RCA) had been redesignated as Rules of Appellate Procedure effective March 12, 1976.
Amendment history: Amended by Order 2025-6, eff. 1-5-25; prior amendments eff. 8-15-22 (Order 2022-43), 5-1-20 (Order 2020-21), 1-1-10 (Order 2009-12). Adopted by Order 2001-2, eff. 1-1-02.