2006 Kansas Code - 74-591

      74-591.   Same; transfer of funds; creation of food safety fee fund. (a) The balances of all funds or accounts thereof appropriated or reappropriated for the department of health and environment relating to the powers, duties and functions transferred by this act are hereby transferred within the state treasury to the Kansas department of agriculture and shall be used only for the purpose for which the appropriation was originally made. On and after October 1, 2004, all such balances shall be deposited in the food safety fee fund and may be used to carry out the responsibilities and duties of the division of food safety of the Kansas department of agriculture, as established by this act.

      (b)   There is hereby created the food safety fee fund. The Kansas department of agriculture shall remit all moneys received by or for it from fees, charges or penalties to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the food safety fee fund. All expenditures from the food safety fee fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the secretary of agriculture or by a person or persons designated by the secretary.

      History:   L. 2004, ch. 147, § 5; July 1.