§22-35-9. Administration cost of chapter; annual budgets for administration.

(a) Administration cost of all the provisions of this chapter shall be charged to the fund. Annual budgets for administration are to be included as part of the regular department budget, except that the annual budget of the management board shall not be a part of the department budget. There is hereby appropriated to the department by the Legislature, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1994, and for each following fiscal year, the department's actual cost, not to exceed 8 percent of total fees and charges collected annually or a maximum of seven hundred five thousand dollars ($705,000) per year, whichever is less, excluding any legal expenses incurred by the department in discharging its duties under the provisions of this chapter. In no event shall the department's budget provisions for this activity in any given year be less than four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000). Provided, however, the Legislature may make additional appropriations to the department from the fund upon a showing of the need for such additional monies in the administration of the fund. The department shall provide the management board with an assessment of its needs no less than 45 days prior to requesting additional appropriations from the Legislature. Such additional monies shall not exceed in any given fiscal year five percent of the total fees and charges collected annually by the fund. Any additional appropriation authorized by the Legislature shall be for only that fiscal year for which it was authorized.

(b) As a first charge against revenues collected under the provisions of this chapter, to offset its initial costs in administering such collections, there is hereby appropriated to the Department of Revenue for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1994, the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000). The Department of Revenue shall be appropriated for each fiscal year by the Legislature the amount of money necessary to pay its actual costs in administering and enforcing this chapter, not to exceed one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) per annum, which money shall be deducted, as a first charge thereon, from the revenues collected under the provisions of this chapter. After payment of the aforesaid expenses, the balance of the revenues collected under the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited as directed elsewhere in this chapter.

(Acts 1988, No. 88-378, p. 557, §9; Acts 1993, No. 93-628, p. 1062, §9; Acts 1993, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 93-891, p. 165, §1; Act 2003-483, 2nd Sp. Sess., p. 1486, §1.)