Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 49-622

  • 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
  • Director: means the executive director of the division or a designee. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
  • Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Reclamation: means the reconditioning of the area of land affected by surface mining to a usable condition for agricultural, recreational or other use. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

(a) There is hereby created within the state treasury the land reclamation fund.

(b) The director shall remit all moneys collected from fees and civil penalties imposed pursuant to this act to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the land reclamation fund.

(c) All costs of administering the provisions of this act shall be paid from moneys credited or transferred to the land reclamation fund pursuant to this section. Expenditures from the fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the director.

(d) On or before the 10th of each month, the director of accounts and reports shall transfer from the state general fund to the land reclamation fund interest earnings based on:

(1) The average daily balance of moneys in the land reclamation fund for the preceding month; and

(2) the net earnings rate of the pooled money investment portfolio for the preceding month.