Rule 14-904. Funding.

(a) The Supreme Court shall provide for funding by the lawyers licensed in this state in amounts adequate for the proper payment of claims and costs of administering the Fund subject to paragraph (c).

(b) All determinations with regards to funding shall be within the discretion of the Board, subject to approval of the Supreme Court.

(c) The Bar shall have the authority to assess its members until such time that the Fund reaches the level of $200,000; thereafter, the assessment shall be made only as necessary to maintain a minimum balance in the Fund of $200,000.

(d) A lawyer's failure to pay any fee assessed under paragraph (c) shall be cause for administrative suspension from practice until payment has been made.

(e) Any lawyer whose actions have caused payment of funds to a claimant from the Fund shall reimburse the Fund for all monies paid out as a result of his or her conduct with interest at legal rate, in addition to payment of the assessment for the procedural costs of processing the claim and reasonable attorney fees incurred by the Bar's Office of Professional Conduct or any other attorney or investigator engaged by the Committee to investigate and process the claim as a condition of continued practice.