A court administrator can accept an unsolicited donation from a local bar association to use as incentive gifts in the local problem-solving courts, according to the Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee.

The committee, in a recent opinion, answered an inquiry from a judge who had been approached about the donation by a local bar. The association had foregone its annual reception honoring the local judiciary and asked instead if it could make a one-time donation for gifts to participants in the problem-solving courts, which include drug, mental health, or veterans specialty courts.

The inquiring judge did not request the donation.