(a) The legislature may appropriate from the following sources to the oil and hazardous substance release response account in the fund:
Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 46.08.025
action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
Donor: The person who makes a gift.
Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
(1) the annual estimated balance of the account maintained under Alaska Stat. § 37.05.142 for deposit into the general fund of the proceeds of the oil conservation surcharge levied by Alaska Stat. § 43.55.201;(2) money received from other state sources, from federal or other sources, or from a private donor; and(3) money recovered or otherwise received from parties responsible for the containment and cleanup of oil or a hazardous substance at a specific site for which the state expended money from the former oil and hazardous substance release response fund before October 2, 1994 or for which the state expended money from the response account, but excluding
(A) money from performance bonds and other forms of financial responsibility held in escrow pending satisfactory performance of a privately financed response action;(B) fines, penalties, and damages described in Alaska Stat. § 46.08.020(a)(4).(b) Money received by the state under (a)(2) and (3) of this section shall be deposited in the general fund and credited to a special account called the “oil and hazardous substance release response mitigation account.” The legislature may annually appropriate to the response account in the fund from the response mitigation account a sum equal to the amount received under (a)(2) and (3) of this section during the calendar year preceding the legislative session in which the appropriations are to be made.
