(a) The Oil Spill Prevention and Administration Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. The money in the fund is available for appropriation by the Legislature and may only be used for the purposes of this chapter, Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 8574.1) of Chapter 7, and Division 7.8 (commencing with Section 8750) of the Public Resources Code.

(b) For the purposes of this article, “fund” refers to the Oil Spill Prevention and Administration Fund.

Terms Used In California Government Code 8670.38

  • 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
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18

(Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1248, Sec. 17. Effective September 24, 1990.)