1. A. The "outdoor equity grant program fund" is created in the state treasury. All appropriations, gifts, devises, grants and donations received shall be deposited in the fund. Money in the fund is appropriated to the department for the New Mexico outdoor recreation division to carry out the outdoor equity grant program. Any money appropriated to the fund or accruing to it through gifts, grants, bequests or interest shall remain in the fund. Money in the fund shall not revert at the end of a fiscal year.
2. B. The fund shall be administered by the department. Disbursements from the fund shall be made only upon warrant drawn by the secretary of finance and administration pursuant to vouchers signed by the secretary of economic development or the secretary's designee for the purpose of carrying out the outdoor equity grant program.

History: Laws 2019, ch. 117, § 8; § 9-5B-10.2 recompiled and amended as § 9-15-14.5 by Laws 2020, ch. 65, § 5.

ANNOTATIONS

Recompilations. — Laws 2020, ch. 65, § 5 recompiled and amended former 9-5B-10.2 NMSA 1978 as 9-15-14.5 NMSA 1978, effective May 20, 2020.

The 2020 amendment, effective May 20, 2020, required that all appropriations to the outdoor equity grant program fund shall be appropriated to the economic development department for the New Mexico outdoor recreation division to carry out the outdoor equity grant program; in Subsection A, after "appropriated to the", deleted "commission for the purpose of carrying out the" and added "department for the New Mexico outdoor recreation division to carry out the", and after "outdoor equity grant program", deleted "pursuant to the provisions of the New Mexico Youth Conservation Corps Act"; and in Subsection B, after "signed by the", deleted "chair of the commission" and added "secretary of economic development", and after "outdoor equity grant program", deleted "pursuant to the provisions of the New Mexico Youth Conservation Corps Act".