161C.5 - ORGANIC NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT FUND. - Iowa Statutes

161C.5 ORGANIC NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT FUND. 1. An organic nutrient management fund is created in the state treasury under the control of the division. The fund is composed of moneys appropriated by the general assembly, and moneys available to and obtained or accepted by the division or the state soil conservation committee, from the United States or private sources for placement in the fund. 2. Moneys in the fund are subject to an annual audit by the auditor of state. The fund is subject to warrants by the director of the department of administrative services, drawn upon the written requisition of the division. 3. The fund shall be used to support the organic nutrient management program provided in section 161C.6. Moneys shall be used to provide financial incentives under the program and to pay for expenses incurred by the division in administering the program. Not more than two percent of the moneys shall be used to pay for administering the program. Moneys expended for financial incentives shall be allocated on a cost-share basis. The division may adopt rules to administer this section. 4. The division shall not in any manner directly or indirectly pledge the credit of the state. 5. Section 8.33 shall not apply to moneys in the fund. Moneys earned as income, including as interest, from the fund shall remain in the fund until expended as provided in this section.          Section History: Recent Form 94 Acts, ch 1198, §33; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §286