Continuation of "Securities Enforcement Fund," fees, annual accounting of transactions.

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49:3-66.1 Continuation of "Securities Enforcement Fund," fees, annual accounting of transactions.

15. The "Securities Enforcement Fund" in the Division of Consumer Affairs of the Department of Law and Public Safety shall continue as a nonlapsing, revolving fund. All fees, penalties, costs, fines and other moneys collected pursuant to this act, shall be deposited in the fund. Moneys in the fund shall be used by the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs to administer the provisions of this act and to investigate violations and to enforce the prohibitions of this act to protect the public. There shall be made available from the General Fund such additional amounts as may be required to carry out the provisions of this act.

All fees set by rule of the bureau chief pursuant to this act may be imposed for revenue if the fees, taken together, are reasonably related to the overall costs of carrying out the regulatory and administrative duties of the bureau as set forth in this act.

The fees set pursuant to the "Uniform Securities Law (1967)," P.L.1967, c.93 (C.49:3-47 et seq.) and supplements thereto which are in effect on the effective date of this act, but which are to be set by regulation pursuant to this act, shall remain in effect until the regulations promulgated pursuant to this act take effect.

An annual accounting of deposits to and withdrawals from the fund shall be made by the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs and filed with the Attorney General and bureau chief and any State agency, as required by law.

L.1985,c.405,s.15; amended 1997, c.276, s.23.


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