Sec. 7. The tax revenues received by the county treasurer as provided in section 6 of this chapter shall be deposited in the convention, tourism and recreation fund, which fund may be used by the board of managers to finance, construct, equip, operate, promote and maintain any capital improvement in the nature of a convention and exhibition center, or any tourism or recreational program, to renovate, equip, operate and maintain any existing structure which may be used as a convention and exhibition center, or to make transfers described in clause (6) of section 5 of this chapter. No funds may be allocated to maintain recreational facilities in either the city of the second class or the city of the third class in the county if those facilities were in existence on January 1, 1979.

As added by Acts 1978, P.L.49, SEC.1.