1999 Minnesota Code
Chapters 114C - 116I Environmental Protection
Chapter 116 Pollution Control Agency
Section 116.65 Vehicle emission inspection account.

116.65 Vehicle emission inspection account.

Subdivision 1. Establishment; purpose. A vehicle emission inspection account is created in the state treasury and may be used only to pay the cost of the motor vehicle inspection program and the costs of the agency and department to administer sections 116.60 to 116.65.

Subd. 2. Revenue source. Revenue from the following sources must be deposited in the vehicle emission inspection account:

(1) money recovered by the state under section 116.63, and money paid under any agreement, stipulation, or settlement;

(2) money received by the agency in the form of gifts, grants, reimbursements, or appropriations from any source intended to be used for the purpose of the account;

(3) fleet inspection station licensing fees;

(4) interest attributable to investment of money deposited in the fund; and

(5) the proceeds of the inspection fee.

Subd. 3. Appropriation. The amount necessary to pay the inspection maintenance operator during the initial contract period for the contract entered into under section 116.62, subdivision 3, is appropriated from the vehicle emission inspection account to the agency. By the end of the initial contract entered by the agency under section 116.62, subdivision 3, the amounts appropriated from the motor vehicle transfer fund to the vehicle emission inspection account must be repaid to the transfer fund, and the amounts necessary for this repayment are appropriated from the vehicle emission inspection account.

HIST: 1988 c 661 s 6; 1990 c 594 art 1 s 53

* NOTE: This section is repealed by Laws 1999, chapter 178, section *10, paragraph (a), effective June 1, 2000. Laws 1999, chapter 178, *section 11.