2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 142 - MISCELLANEOUS TAXES 142.406 Tourism, meeting, and convention marketing fund -- Creation and fund sources -- Authorized investments -- Use of funds -- Annual report to Legislative Research Commission and to Governor.
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142.406 Tourism, meeting, and convention marketing fund -- Creation and
fund sources -- Authorized investments -- Use of funds -- Annual report to
Legislative Research Commission and to Governor.
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There is hereby created and established in the State Treasury a trust and
agency account to be known as the tourism, meeting, and convention
marketing fund. The fund shall be administered by the Tourism, Arts and
Heritage Cabinet, with the approval of the Governor's Office for Policy and
Management.
All tax receipts from the tax imposed under KRS 142.400 shall be deposited
into the tourism, meeting, and convention marketing fund, and shall be
appropriated for the purposes set forth in subsection (3) of this section. The
fund shall also contain any other money contributed, allocated, or appropriated
to it from any other source. Money in the fund shall be invested by the Finance
and Administration Cabinet in instruments authorized under KRS 42.500.
Investment proceeds shall be deposited to the credit of the fund. Money in the
fund shall not lapse but shall be carried forward to the next fiscal year or
biennium.
The tourism, meeting, and convention marketing fund shall be used for the sole
purpose of marketing and promoting tourism in the Commonwealth including
expenditures to market and promote events and venues related to meetings,
conventions, trade shows, cultural activities, historical sites, recreation,
entertainment, natural phenomena, areas of scenic beauty, craft marketing,
and any other economic activity that brings tourists and visitors to the
Commonwealth. Marketing and promoting tourism shall not include
expenditures on capital construction projects.
By September 1 of each year, the secretary of the Tourism, Arts and Heritage
Cabinet shall report to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission
concerning the receipts, expenditures, and carryforwards of the fund for the
preceding fiscal year.
Effective:June 25, 2009
History: Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 16, sec. 14, effective June 25, 2009. -Created 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 168, sec. 70, effective June 1, 2005.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/1/2005). 2005 Ky. Acts chs. 11, 85, 95,
97, 98, 99, 123, and 181 instruct the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory
references to agencies and officers whose names have been changed in 2005
legislation confirming the reorganization of the executive branch. Such a
correction has been made in this section.
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