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7.13 - GOVERNOR-ELECT EXPENSE FUND.

        7.13  GOVERNOR-ELECT EXPENSE FUND.
         There is hereby created as a permanent fund in the office of the
      treasurer of state a fund to be known as the "governor-elect
      expense fund".  For the purpose of establishing and maintaining
      said fund, for each biennium, there is hereby appropriated thereto
      from funds in the general fund not otherwise appropriated the sum of
      ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay
      for office space, supplies, postage, and secretarial and clerical
      salaries after the day of the election and before the day of the
      inauguration for a first term governor-elect.  Any balance in said
      fund at the end of each biennium shall revert to the general fund.
      Said fund shall be subject at all times to the warrant of the
      director of the department of administrative services drawn upon
      written requisition of the governor-elect.  In event of a contested
      election, no distribution of the fund will be made until such time as
      the general assembly certifies the results of the election.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 7.13] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         2003 Acts, ch 145, §286