Section 21-J:24-a Revolving Fund Established for Municipal Officers and Employees Education and Training.
I. The commissioner shall establish a revolving fund in order to provide training for and to publish and distribute training and educational materials to municipal officers and employees.
II. The nonlapsing revolving fund, which shall not exceed $5,000 on June 30 of each year, shall be established in the municipal services division, department of revenue administration. Any amounts in excess of $5,000 on June 30 of each year shall be deposited into the general fund as unrestricted revenue.
III. An initial funding of $2,500 shall be transferred from the current expenses appropriation of the municipal services division prior to June 30, 1994; a second funding of $2,500 shall be transferred from the current expenses appropriation of the municipal services division between July 1, 1994 and December 1, 1994.
IV. The money in this fund shall be used for the purpose of:
(a) Purchasing, producing or printing technical information of a nonbinding nature for distribution by the municipal services division in conjunction with training seminars for local officials, town counsels and professional auditors. Charges made shall be only in the amount necessary to pay the cost of producing or printing the technical assistance documents of a nonbinding nature or to reimburse the municipal services division for the cost of purchased material.
(b) Providing training to municipal employees in the areas of taxation and finance. A reasonable charge shall be established for such training. This charge shall be fixed to reflect the cost of payments to experts to provide the training, the cost of written training materials, rented facilities, advertising, and other associated costs. Such training shall be conducted in geographically dispersed locations.
(c) Printing training materials for distribution. A reasonable charge shall be established for each copy of a training document. This charge shall only be the amount necessary to pay the cost of producing such document.
V. Funds received from the sale of any materials shall be credited to the fund established in this section. The receipts from such charges shall be used for no other purpose than the subsequent purchase, production or printing of technical assistance documents of a nonbinding nature by the municipal services division of the department of revenue administration.
VI. The following persons shall not be charged for printed materials which are paid for by the fund: legislative committees and legislators who request printed materials.
VII. The department of revenue administration shall provide an accounting for the expenditures and reimbursements in the department's annual report each year.
Source. 1994, 337:1, eff. June 8, 1994. 1996, 164:1, eff. Aug. 2, 1996.