2006 Code of Virginia § 52-4.3 - Drug Investigation Special Trust Account

52-4.3. Drug Investigation Special Trust Account.

A. There is hereby created in the Department of the Treasury a specialnonreverting fund to be known as the Drug Investigation Special TrustAccount, consisting of such funds as may be appropriated by the GeneralAssembly from time to time and all interest, dividends and appreciation,including payments to the fund from the federal government by virtue of agrant, gift, forfeiture or other disposition, which may accrue to such fund,for the purpose of providing a timely supplemental source of money to theDepartment of State Police for use in the detection, investigation andapprehension of persons for the violation of the laws pertaining to themanufacture, sale or distribution of illegal drugs.

B. Funds from the Drug Investigation Special Trust Account shall be used tosupplement general appropriations for the Department of State Police Bureauof Criminal Investigations and a division for drug law enforcement andinvestigation for nonpersonal service expenditures related to illegal druginvestigations. They shall be used only for the purposes stated in subsectionA and in strict conformity with the rules and regulations promulgated by theSuperintendent of State Police to carry out the intent and purposes of thissection.

C. No expenditures shall be made from the Drug Investigation Trust Accountexcept in strict compliance with procedures established by the Superintendentof State Police and approved by the State Comptroller. The accounting for allsuch expenditures shall also be in strict compliance with such procedures.

D. The Drug Investigation Special Trust Account shall be established on thebooks of the Comptroller so as to segregate the amounts appropriated to theaccount and the amounts earned or accumulated by such special trust account.No portion of such special trust account shall be used for a purpose otherthan for drug investigations. Funds remaining in the Drug InvestigationSpecial Trust Account at the end of a biennium shall not revert to thegeneral fund but shall remain in the special trust account, to be used forthe purposes set forth in subsections A through C and shall accumulateinterest and dividends throughout the existence of the special trust account.Any funds, however, remaining in the special trust account at the end of abiennium in excess of $1,500,000 shall revert to the general fund.

(1972, c. 320; 1982, c. 431; 1989, c. 168; 2000, cc. 560, 600.)