Section 77-1B-4 - Animal care and facility fund created; administration. (Repealed effective July 1, 2012.) - New Mexico Statutes

77-1B-4. Animal care and facility fund  created; administration. (Repealed effective July 1, 2012.)

A.     The "animal care and facility fund" is created in the state treasury.  All fees collected pursuant to the Animal Sheltering Services Act [Animal Sheltering Act] shall be deposited in the fund.

B.     The animal care and facility fund shall consist of money collected by the board pursuant to the Animal Sheltering Services Act; income from investment of the fund; and money appropriated to the fund or accruing to it through fees or administrative penalties, cooperative research agreements, income, gifts, grants, donations, bequests, sales of promotional items, handbooks or educational materials or any other source.  Money in the fund shall not be transferred to another fund or encumbered or expended except for expenditures authorized pursuant to the Animal Sheltering Services Act [Animal Sheltering Act].

C.     Money in the fund is subject to appropriation by the legislature to the department to be used to help animal shelters and communities defray the cost of implementing the board's initiatives conducted pursuant to the Animal Sheltering Services Act [Animal Sheltering Act].  The fund shall be administered by the department to carry out the purposes of the Animal Sheltering Services Act [Animal Sheltering Act]. 

D.     Each fiscal year, an amount of money in the fund appropriated pursuant to this section that is equal to the total amount of money credited to the fund for that fiscal year from special registration plates issued pursuant to Section 66-3-424.3 NMSA 1978 shall be administered so that spay and neuter programs in a county receive money attributable to the number of those special registration plates issued in that county.

E.     A disbursement from the fund shall be made only upon a warrant drawn by the secretary of finance and administration pursuant to a voucher signed by the superintendent of regulation and licensing or the superintendent's designee.

F.     Unexpended and unencumbered balances in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund.