§37-4-88. Safety inspection fees.

(a) Any gas system operated by any investor-owned company, city, county, municipality, or public gas district which comes under the supervision of the commission for the purpose of enforcing the gas pipeline safety requirements of this article, shall pay annually on October first of each year an inspection fee to the commission of $.50 per active service line for the previous calendar year ending December 31, for each active service line in said system.

(b) Any investor-owned company, partnership, public housing authority or public entity created by Act of Congress or state legislature that uses a master meter for one or more units, shall pay the inspection fee based upon the number of all units on premises served by said master meter.

(c) All provisions of this section are applicable to any and all liquefied petroleum gas installations that come under the enforcement provisions of the commission.

(d) All said inspection fees collected under this provision shall be paid into a fund to be known as the "gas pipeline safety fund" and shall be kept separate and apart from all other funds by the commission.

(e) Payment of gas pipeline safety inspection fees provided for under this section shall in all respects be governed by the provisions of Section 37-4-23 and Section 37-4-24.

(f) In the event said "gas pipeline safety fund" accumulates by September 30 in any year to an amount equal to 110 percent of the amount budgeted in that current fiscal year for the purpose of enforcing the gas pipeline safety requirements of this article, the commission shall suspend the collection of said inspection fees for one year.

(g) Upon July 25, 1983, the additional revenue generated herein shall be over and above the appropriation of the commission for fiscal year 1983-84.

(Acts 1983, No. 83-588, p. 920; Acts 1984, No. 84-259, p. 431, §1.)