Each month monies received from the registration and infrastructure fees received under this chapter for the numbering of watercraft shall be deposited, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, in the watercraft licensing fund. Each month, the department shall distribute the monies as follows:

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 5-323

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Department: means the Arizona game and fish department. See Arizona Laws 5-301
  • Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Watercraft: means any boat designed to be propelled by machinery, oars, paddles or wind action on a sail for navigation on the water, or as may be defined by rule of the commission. See Arizona Laws 5-301

1. All revenues collected pursuant to section 5-321, subsection A and section 5-326 shall be allocated as follows:

(a) Sixty-five per cent shall be deposited in the watercraft licensing fund. The watercraft licensing fund is to be used by the department for administering and enforcing this chapter, providing an information and education program relating to boating and boating safety and administering any aquatic invasive species program established under this title or title 17. These monies are subject to legislative appropriation.

(b) Thirty-five per cent of such revenues shall be further allocated as follows:

(i) Fifteen per cent to the state lake improvement fund to be used as prescribed by section 5-382.

(ii) Eighty-five per cent to the law enforcement and boating safety fund to be used as prescribed by section 5-383.

2. All revenues collected from any additional registration fees collected pursuant to section 5-321, subsection C shall be paid to an account designated by a multi-county water conservation district established under Title 48, Chapter 22 to be used solely for the lower Colorado river multispecies conservation program and for no other purpose.