The Agriculture Trust Fund is hereby created. The trust fund is not a fund of the State Treasury. Transfers to the trust fund may be deposited in the State Treasury, or in a bank or other depository approved by the Department of Finance. Funds that are so transferred are exempt from Sections 11270 and 11272 of the Government Code and shall be deposited and disbursed only to pay for attorney’s fees and other costs incurred in litigation involving the trust fund, expenses generated by the auditing requirement imposed by Section 239, and the costs set forth in Section 240.

(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 146, Sec. 47. Effective January 1, 1995.)