The State Highway Department is hereby authorized to make reimbursement, from the State Highway Construction and Maintenance Fund in the State Treasury, to contractors who have been, or who may hereafter be, awarded construction or repair contracts for state highway projects and become subject to a city sales tax when such tax became effective following award of a contract. Any such contractor shall submit to the State Highway Department copies of invoices of taxes paid, the project number and the materials invoice that became subject to a city sales tax. The State Highway Department, after a review of the file, shall issue a voucher of payment to the contractor for the monies spent to satisfy the payment by the contractor of the city sales tax.
Laws 1968, c. 126, § 1, emerg. eff. April 4, 1968.