10450-10454
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE
SECTION 10450-10454
10450. All fees charged and collected under this part and under Chapter 1 of Part 2, except as provided in this chapter, shall be paid by the commissioner at least once a month, accompanied by a detailed statement thereof, into the Treasury of the State to the credit of the Real Estate Fund, which fund is continued in existence. 10450.6. There shall be separate accounts in the Real Estate Fund for purposes of real estate education and research and for purposes of recovery which shall be known respectively as the Education and Research Account and the Recovery Account. The commissioner may, by regulation, require that up to 8 percent, or any lesser amount that he or she deems appropriate, of the amount of any license fee collected under this part be credited to the Education and Research Account. Twelve percent of the amount of any license fee collected shall be credited to the Recovery Account, provided, however, that if as of June 30 of any fiscal year the balance of funds in the Recovery Account is at least three million five hundred thousand dollars ($3,500,000), all funds in excess of this amount which have been credited to the Recovery Account shall instead be credited to the Real Estate Fund. As long as the balance of funds in the Recovery Account exceeds three million five hundred thousand dollars ($3,500,000), all license fees collected, except for the percentage of license fees credited to the Education and Research Account, shall be credited to the Real Estate Fund. Funds in the Education and Research Account shall be used by the commissioner in accordance with Section 10451.5. The Recovery Account is a continuing appropriation for carrying out Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 10470). The amendments to this section made at the 1997-98 Regular Session shall become operative July 1, 2000. 10451. All money paid into the State Treasury and credited to the Real Estate Fund is hereby appropriated to be used by the commissioner in carrying out the provisions of this part and Chapter 1 of Part 2, including the payment of the salaries of the commissioner and his deputies, clerks and assistants. The money credited to the fund shall remain therein. 10451.5. (a) All money paid into the State Treasury and credited to the Education and Research Account in the Real Estate Fund pursuant to Section 10450.6 is available for appropriation by the Legislature to be used by the commissioner in carrying out the provisions of this part and Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 11000) of Part 2, in the advancement of education and research in real estate at the University of California, state colleges and community colleges, or in contracting for a particular research project in the field of real estate for the state with any university in the State of California accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, or with any corporation or association qualified to perform such research. (b) If the balance in the Education and Research Account is more than four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000), the Real Estate Commissioner may authorize the transfer of all or part of such surplus amount to the Real Estate Fund and may authorize the return to the Education and Research Account of all or part of any amount previously transferred to the Real Estate Fund. (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (b), if at any time the amount of funds credited to the Real Estate Fund, including any amounts credited to the separate accounts for Education and Research and Recovery, is less than 25 percent of the department's authorized expenditures for the following fiscal year, the commissioner may transfer any or all of the funds credited to the Education and Research Account to the Real Estate Fund. The commissioner may authorize the return to the Education and Research Account of all or part of any amount previously transferred to the Real Estate Fund. 10452. The Controller shall draw his warrant on the respective funds from time to time in favor of the commissioner for the amounts expended under his direction, and the Treasurer shall pay the same. 10453. All of the expenditures of the commissioner, including his salary, shall be paid only from the Real Estate Fund except as otherwise provided in this chapter. 10454. The commissioner may, with the consent of the Department of Finance, withdraw from the Real Estate Fund moneys to be used as a revolving fund where cash advances are necessary. The commissioner shall account for the sum withdrawn from the revolving fund at any time upon demand of the Department of Finance.