At each regular session, the general assembly shall determine the amounts to be expended by the office of consumer counsel for the direct and indirect costs of administration in performing its duties and responsibilities required by this article and shall appropriate to the office of consumer counsel from the public utilities commission fixed utility fund created in section 40-2-114 the full amount so determined. No general fund moneys shall be appropriated to the office of consumer counsel for the performance of its duties and responsibilities under this article.
Source: L. 84: Entire article added, p. 1047, § 1, effective July 1.