17. a. There is established in the General Fund a separate, nonlapsing, dedicated account to be known as the “Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Fund.” The Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Fund shall be administered by the commission. All fees and other monies collected pursuant to this act or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto shall be forwarded to the State Treasury for deposit into the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Fund account. The commission shall receive 40 percent of this fund annually, which monies shall be considered revenue of the commission. All remaining fees and other monies deposited in the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Fund account shall be used to fund the costs of administering the programs and activities of the Department of Law and Public Safety, the Department of Transportation, the commission and the Department of Environmental Protection established or specified in this act and in subsection f. of R.S.39:3-20, subject to the approval of the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury.

b. A municipality may be eligible for periodic grants from the fund in such amounts as the commission, in consultation with the Commissioner of Transportation, may determine pursuant to rule or regulation to subsidize costs of prosecuting and trying actions pursuant to this act.

L.1995,c.157,s.17; amended 2003, c.13, s.106.