Planning Fund expenditures authorized -- Ceiling on expenditures -- Recovery.
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(1) The Planning Fund shall be used to make payments for engineering, architectural, and other planning expenses necessary to make a meaningful cost estimate of any facility or improvement with a demonstrable or immediate need.
(2) The director may make expenditures from the Planning Fund in order to provide planning information to the board, the governor, and the Legislature, up to a maximum of $350,000 in outstanding Planning Fund commitments.
(3)
(a) The director shall authorize all payments made from the Planning Fund.
(b) Payments from the Planning Fund shall be a charge on the project for which they were drawn.
(c) If the Legislature appropriates money for a building project for which planning costs have previously been paid from the Planning Fund, the director shall credit that amount to the Planning Fund.
(4)
(a) The director may expend money from the Planning Fund for architectural and engineering services incident to the planning and preparation of applications for funds on construction financed by other than state sources, including federal grants.
(b) Upon approval of financing referred to in Subsection (4)(a), the director shall reimburse to the Planning Fund the money spent for architectural and engineering services.