(1) The disbursing officer for the Department of Finance and Administration shall mail warrants to fund recipients to the addresses of record within twenty (20) working days after the Division of Budgets and Accounting of the Department of Finance and Administration receives distribution from the Treasurer of State.
(2) The Treasurer of State makes distributions to the Department of Finance and Administration as funds become available.
(3) Accordingly, a fund recipient may receive a disbursement in installments rather than a single warrant.
(4) Distribution of funds will be delayed if the fund recipient fails to provide the required Certification for Use of Funds form (DFA-SP-1) or provides an incomplete Certification for Use of Funds form (DFA-SP-1) as required in 19 CAR § 50-107(a).
(b)
(1) The disbursing officer shall request a list of legislators who wish to deliver warrants related to the Development and Enhancement Fund appropriations that they sponsored or cosponsored from the House of Representatives and Senate staff no later than August 1 of the first year of each biennium.
(2) The House of Representatives and Senate staff shall provide such a list to the disbursing officer no later than September 1 of the first year of each biennium.
(3) In the event that a legislator sponsoring or cosponsoring a Development and Enhancement Fund appropriation wishes to deliver the first warrant of the biennium to the fund recipient, the legislator must sign for the warrant at the office of the disbursing officer.
(4) All future warrants issued in the biennium will be mailed directly to the recipients.
(c)
(1) In the event that an incomplete Certification for Use of Funds form (DFA-SP-1) is received, the disbursing officer shall notify the fund recipient by letter to the recipient’s address of record within ten (10) working days of receipt of the form.
(2) The initial distribution to the fund recipient may be delayed up to sixty (60) days after the receipt of a complete Certification for Use of Funds form (DFA-SP-1).