There is hereby created in the State Treasury a special fund for the Department of Agriculture, to be called the Department of Agriculture Emergency Insect Control Special Fund. This fund shall consist of monies transferred to it from funds appropriated to the Department of Agriculture for this purpose. The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall be under the control and management of the administrative authority of the Department of Agriculture. Expenditures from said fund shall be pursuant to the laws of this state and rules promulgated by the Board of Agriculture, and without legislative appropriation, and shall be for the purpose of emergency grasshopper and range caterpillar control within the state or for the general operations of the Department of Agriculture, and may be used for matching purposes for those programs in which the United States Department of Agriculture participates. All expenditures will be approved by the State Board of Agriculture. Warrants for expenditures from said fund shall be based on claims, signed by an authorized employee of the Department of Agriculture, and approved for payment by the Director of State Finance.

Laws 1980, SB 391, c. 137, § 2, emerg. eff. April 15, 1980; Amended by Laws 1981, HB 1103, c. 50, § 2, emerg. eff. April 13, 1981; Amended by Laws 1993, SB 575, c. 278, § 15, eff. September 1, 1993.