(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), revenues received from lands subject to an operating agreement entered into pursuant to this article shall be available to the department only for the care, maintenance, operation, administration, improvement, or development of the unit of the state park system in which the lands from which the revenues were derived are located and any recreational trail providing access to those lands.
(b) (1) As to operating agreements that are in force on September 30, 1994, if a local agency operates more than one unit of the state park system under the operating agreement, revenues received in excess of the care, maintenance, operation, administration, improvement, or development of one unit may be utilized for those purposes at other units of the state park system operated by the local agency.
(2) As to operating agreements entered into, renewed, or renegotiated on and after October 1, 1994, revenues received from lands subject to an operating agreement in excess of the cost, maintenance, operation, administration, improvement, or development of those lands, as determined by the department, shall be available to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the Budget Act, for expenditure for support of the department.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1067, second Sec. 4. Effective September 29, 1994.)