57-705 Tax; remittance; Severance Tax Fund; Severance Tax Administration Fund; created; use.
57-705. Tax; remittance;Severance Tax Fund; Severance Tax Administration Fund; created; use.(1) All severance taxes levied by Chapter 57, article 7,shall be paid to the Tax Commissioner. He or she shall remit all such moneyreceived to the State Treasurer. All such money received by the State Treasurershall be credited to a fund to be known as the Severance Tax Fund. An amountequal to one percent of the gross severance tax receipts, excluding thosereceipts from tax derived from oil and natural gas severed from school lands,credited to the fund shall be credited by the State Treasurer, upon the firstday of each month, and shall inure to the Severance Tax Administration Fundto be used for the expenses of administering Chapter 57, article 7. Transfers may be made from the SeveranceTax Administration Fund to the General Fund at the direction of the Legislature. Thebalance of the Severance Tax Fund received from school lands shall be creditedby the State Treasurer, upon the first day of each month, and shall inureto the permanent school fund.(2) Of the balance of the Severance Tax Fund received fromother than school lands (a) the Legislature may transfer an amount to be determinedby the Legislature through the appropriations process up to three hundredthousand dollars for each year to the State Energy Office Cash Fund, (b) theLegislature may transfer an amount to be determined by the Legislature throughthe appropriations process up to thirty thousand dollars for each year tothe Public Service Commission for administration of the Municipal Rate NegotiationsRevolving Loan Fund, and (c) the remainder shall be credited and inure tothe permanent school fund.(3) The State Treasurer shall transfer two hundred fiftythousand dollars from the Severance Tax Administration Fund to the Departmentof Revenue Enforcement Fund on July 1, 2009, or as soon thereafter as administrativelypossible. The State Treasurer shall transfer two hundred fifty thousand dollarsfrom the Severance Tax Administration Fund to the Department of Revenue EnforcementFund on July 1, 2010, or as soon thereafter as administratively possible. SourceLaws 1955, c. 219, § 5, p. 612; Laws 1959, c. 261, § 1, p. 899; Laws 1967, c. 351, § 3, p. 933; Laws 1981, LB 257, § 2; Laws 1982, LB 799, § 1; Laws 1983, LB 228, § 4; Laws 1983, LB 607, § 2; Laws 1985, LB 126, § 1; Laws 1986, LB 258, § 10; Laws 1989, LB 727, § 2; Laws 1993, LB 5, § 2; Laws 1993, LB 364, § 20; Laws 1993, LB 670, § 1; Laws 2000, LB 1369, § 1; Laws 2003, LB 790, § 58; Laws 2009, LB316, § 15; Laws 2009, First Spec. Sess., LB3, § 32.