A. Each month the state treasurer shall distribute the monies in the county’s regional area road fund to the individual county and to the individual cities and towns in the county in the manner that is determined by the board of supervisors before the election and that is described in the publicity pamphlet for the election.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 28-6392

  • Board: means the transportation board. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way if a part of the way is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • State: means a state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Arizona Laws 28-101

B. The jurisdiction receiving the revenues may use the revenues only for street and highway purposes or for transportation projects included in the regional transportation plan of the county as prepared by the county regional planning agency. If the auditor general reports to the state treasurer after conducting a performance audit pursuant to Section 41-1279.03, subsection A, paragraph 6 that a jurisdiction has not used revenues as provided in this subsection:

1. The state treasurer shall require the jurisdiction to directly repay the fund the full amount of the misused monies beginning immediately as a lump sum or in consecutive annual payments of at least ten percent of the full amount each fiscal year.

2. If the jurisdiction fails to timely and fully repay the fund as required by paragraph 1 of this subsection, the state treasurer shall withhold the noncomplying jurisdiction’s revenues until the noncomplying jurisdiction presents evidence that is satisfactory to the auditor general and that shows that the jurisdiction has spent monies for purposes prescribed in this subsection from another general revenue source equal to the amount of the revenues diverted from the uses prescribed in this subsection.

C. The state treasurer shall invest and divest monies in the county’s regional area road fund as provided by section 35-313, and monies earned from investment shall be credited to the fund.

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