There is hereby created a revolving fund in the State Treasury to be known as the "Certification Fund". Said fund shall consist of all monies appropriated to said fund, and all fees collected under the provisions of this act. Said fund shall be under the control and supervision of the Department, and shall be paid out on claims approved by the Department and forwarded to the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services who shall audit the same, and, upon approval thereof, warrants shall be issued according to law, and said warrants shall be paid by the State Treasurer from the said fund. The said fund shall be expended for training programs including itinerant training programs, meetings, personnel, expenses, and purchase of personal property, to carry out the purposes of the Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operator Certification Act, and for no other purpose. Nothing herein shall prevent the expenditure of other funds of the Department or of the Board, the expenditure of which is not otherwise restricted, from being expended to accomplish the purposes of the Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operator Certification Act.
Added by Laws 1959, p. 274, § 13. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 287, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 276.