20-4-109. Fees for teacher and specialist certificates. (1) A person applying for the issuance or renewal of a teacher or specialist certificate shall pay a fee not to exceed $6 for each school fiscal year that the certificate is valid. In addition to this fee, a person who has never held any class of Montana teacher or specialist certificate or for whom an emergency authorization of employment has never been issued shall pay a filing fee of $6. The fees must be paid to the superintendent of public instruction, who shall deposit the fees with the state treasurer to the credit of the state special revenue fund account, created in subsection (2), to be used in the following manner:
(a) $4 for expenses of the certification standards and practices advisory council created in 2-15-1522;
(b) $2 to the board of public education and the certification standards and practices advisory council for activities in support of the constitutional and statutory duties of the board of public education and the certification standards and practices advisory council.
(2) There is an account in the state special revenue fund. Money from fees for teacher or specialist certificates required in subsection (1) must be deposited in the account.
History: En. 75-6009 by Sec. 79, Ch. 5, L. 1971; R.C.M. 1947, 75-6009; amd. Sec. 11, Ch. 511, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 465, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 103, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 628, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 495, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 26, Ch. 509, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 165, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 173, L. 2003.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Chapter 4. Teachers, Superintendents, and Principals
Part 1. Certification of Teaching and Supervisory Personnel
20-4-102. Board of public education policies
20-4-103. Issuance of teacher or specialist certificates
20-4-106. Classifications of teacher and specialist certificates
20-4-107. Outstanding teacher certificates
20-4-108. Term of teacher and specialist certificates -- renewal
20-4-109. Fees for teacher and specialist certificates
20-4-110. Letter of reprimand, suspension, revocation, and denial of certificate
20-4-111. Emergency authorization of employment
20-4-112. Access to materials -- superintendent of public instruction
20-4-113. Access to criminal justice information
20-4-114. Penalty for failure to report
20-4-115. through 20-4-120 reserved
20-4-121. Interstate agreement on qualification of educational personnel
20-4-122. Designated official for purposes of interstate agreement
20-4-123. Preservation and publication of contracts made pursuant to interstate agreement
20-4-124. through 20-4-130 reserved
20-4-132. Meetings -- assistance