Special Account for Fees and Fines

Special Account for Fees and Fines. Any fines or fees paid or collected under any provision of this chapter shall be deposited in a special, separate account from the General Fund. Fifty percent of such funds shall be allotted to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to be expended, spent, obligated or otherwise encumbered only on matters relating to the implementation or enforcement of this chapter; and, the other 50 percent of such funds shall be allotted to the Department of Public Safety to be expended, spent, obligated or otherwise encumbered only for matters relating to the operational, personnel and other costs of facilitating the roadblock/checkpoints mandated by this chapter. The director of the bureau and the Commissioner of Public Safety shall have expenditure authority over these funds, respectively. These funds shall be allotted, dispersed, expended, spent, obligated or otherwise encumbered as provided in this section without any further appropriation, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, they shall not be reprogrammed for any other purpose. Within 30 days of the close of each fiscal year, the director of the bureau, the commissioner, and the Secretary of Finance shall provide the presiding officers of the legislature with a full and detailed accounting of the use of these funds. The Public Auditor shall annually audit these funds and the use thereof and provide copies of such audits to the presiding officers of the legislature and to the Governor. These reports and audits shall be public information. Source: PL 11-55, § 6 (§ 8116), modified.