Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.81 – Community Water Enrichment and Other Improvements Fund
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.81
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Appropriation: means an authorization by the legislature to a budget unit for a program to expend from public funds a sum of money, for purposes designated, under the procedure prescribed in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Fund: means an independent fiscal and accounting entity with a self-balancing set of accounts recording cash or other resources together with all related liabilities, obligations, reserves, and equities which are segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities or attaining certain objectives in accordance with regulations, restrictions, and limitations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Program: means a grouping of activities directed toward the accomplishment of a clearly defined objective or set of objectives. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
A. There is hereby created in the state treasury, as a special fund, the Community Water Enrichment and Other Improvements Fund, hereinafter referred to as the “fund”. The fund shall consist of two accounts: the Water System Enrichment Account and the Other Improvements Account. Subject to appropriation by the legislature, monies in the Water System Enrichment Account shall be used solely to fund rehabilitation, improvement, and construction projects for community water systems to provide drinking water to Louisiana’s small rural communities. Subject to appropriation by the legislature, monies in the Other Improvements Account shall be used by the office of community development solely to provide for a grants program for local governments to assist with capital, infrastructure, and other projects.
B. The fund shall consist of monies deposited annually pursuant to La. Rev. Stat. 27:270(A)(3)(b)(ii)(bb) or (c)(ii)(bb), with fifty percent to be deposited in and credited to the Water System Enrichment Account and fifty percent to be deposited in and credited to the Other Improvements Account. Further, the fund shall also consist of any other monies appropriated, allocated, or transferred to the fund. Monies in the fund shall be invested in the same manner as monies in the state general fund. Interest earned on investment of monies in the fund shall be credited to the fund. Unexpended and unencumbered monies in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund.
Acts 2008, No. 513, §14, eff. June 30, 2008; Acts 2019, No. 171, §2.