26:2S-24 - Appropriations; fees, use
26:2S-24. Appropriations; fees, use
6. a. There is appropriated $500,000 to the department from the General Fund to provide funding for the program, except that funds may be appropriated, in lieu of part or all of the amount appropriated from the General Fund, from the monies made available to the State from tobacco companies under the nationwide settlement of the respective actions by state governments against those companies.
b. (1) The program may charge fees for the provision of materials to the public consistent with P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.). The commissioner may establish a separate fee schedule for training and education services that may be provided by the program to for-profit organizations, and for the distribution to nongovernmental entities of statistical information that may be developed by the program.
(2)Revenues received by the department pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be deposited into a special nonlapsing fund which the commissioner shall create in the department for the purpose of providing funding for the program, and these revenues and the interest earned therefrom shall be utilized to fund the program in addition to the amount appropriated pursuant to subsection b. of this section.
L.2001,c.14,s.6.