Section 324.21506a - Refined petroleum fund; creation; deposit of money or other assets; investment; money remaining at close of fiscal year; expenditures; purposes; appropriation of surplus funds to
NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 451 of 1994
324.21506a Refined petroleum fund; creation; deposit of money or other assets; investment; money remaining at close of fiscal year; expenditures; purposes; appropriation of surplus funds to environmental protection fund.
Sec. 21506a.
(1) The refined petroleum fund is created within the state treasury.
(2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the refined petroleum fund. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the refined petroleum fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the refined petroleum fund interest and earnings from refined petroleum fund investments.
(3) Money in the refined petroleum fund at the close of the fiscal year shall remain in the refined petroleum fund and shall not lapse to the general fund.
(4) Subject to subsection (5), money from the refined petroleum fund shall be expended, upon appropriation, only for 1 or more of the following purposes:
(a) For gasoline inspection programs under both of the following:
(i) The weights and measures act, 1964 PA 283, MCL 290.601 to 290.634.
(ii) The motor fuels quality act, 1984 PA 44, MCL 290.641 to 290.650d.
(b) Not more than $15,000,000.00 of the money transferred to the refined petroleum fund pursuant to section 21506(6), for the refined petroleum product cleanup initial program and for the department's administrative costs associated with the temporary reimbursement program.
(c) Not more than $45,000,000.00 of the money transferred to the refined petroleum fund pursuant to section 21506(6), for implementation of the temporary reimbursement program.
(d) For corrective actions necessary to address releases of refined petroleum products under a refined petroleum product cleanup program established by law.
(e) For the reasonable administrative costs of the department, the department of agriculture, the department of attorney general, and the department of treasury in administering the refined petroleum fund and in implementing the programs receiving revenue from the refined petroleum fund.
(5) For the state fiscal year ending September 30, 2007 only, surplus funds of $70,000,000.00 in the refined petroleum fund are hereby appropriated to the environmental protection fund created in section 503a.
History: Add. 2004, Act 390, Imd. Eff. Oct. 12, 2004 ;-- Am. 2006, Act 318, Imd. Eff. July 20, 2006 ;-- Am. 2007, Act 67, Imd. Eff. Sept. 28, 2007
Compiler's Notes: Enacting section 1 of Act 390 of 2004 provides:"Enacting section 1. The provisions of this amendatory act relating to the extension and collection of the regulatory fee provided for under this part and the obligation to pay the fee shall be applied retroactively. The requirement to impose and collect the regulatory fee and the obligation to pay the fee shall not be considered to have ceased at any time since the date the requirement and obligation were originally enacted into law. The requirement that this enacting section be applied retroactively extends to any regulatory fee imposed or collected even if it is alleged or determined that sufficient regulatory fees were collected to pay in full bonds or notes issued by the Michigan underground storage tank financial assurance authority.
Popular Name: Act 451
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