The state board of land commissioners may authorize the issuance of deficiency warrants for the purpose of paying the costs of fire suppression on state-owned range lands whether or not said lands are adjacent to or intermingled with forest lands. When so authorized, the state controller shall draw deficiency warrants against the general fund.

[38-131A, added 1988, ch. 208, sec. 2, p. 391; am. 1994, ch. 180, sec. 66, p. 470; am. 2003, ch. 32, sec. 19, p. 129.]