254.110. Compensatory payments to counties.
Compensatory payments to counties.
254.110. 1. The commission shall determine as of Januaryfirst of each year the number of acres of privately owned forestcropland which has been accepted in each county under thischapter. The commission shall pay to each county in which theselands are situated a certain sum from the conservation commissionfund as a grant in lieu of taxes, this sum to be set by thecommission at not less than fifty cents per acre per year foreach acre so accepted.
2. The grants in lieu of taxes so received by the respectivecounties shall be placed in the general revenue fund of each suchcounty.
3. The commission shall annually certify to the commissionerof administration and the state auditor the amount payable toeach county and the treasurer is authorized to pay, and, afterappropriations are made as provided in this section, such amountsshall be paid to such counties on or before the first day ofJanuary following. This section shall not be retroactive.
(L. 1945 p. 672 § 10, A.L. 1955 p. 316, A.L. 1957 p. 311, A.L. 1965 p. 388, A.L. 1974 H.B. 1210, A.L. 1981 H.B. 308)