SEC. 77-1-29. Payments to and disbursements from Public Service Commission Regulation Fund.

On or before the twentieth day of each calendar month, the commission shall pay into the State Treasury to the account of the "Public Service Commission Regulation Fund" all monies collected by it during the preceding calendar month, showing from whom collected, when collected and for what purposes collected. All disbursements made by the commission or from the regulation fund for any purposes, other than for salaries provided by law, shall be supported by a detailed and itemized statement approved by the commission for commission disbursements. The commission shall not expend funds from the "Public Service Commission Regulation Fund" to employ personnel whose services would duplicate services provided by any employee of the Public Utilities Staff.

SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 7694; Laws, 1938, ch. 139; 1944, ch. 268, Sec. 3; 1946, ch. 352, Sec. 5; 1948, ch. 327, Sec. 12; 1952, ch. 330, Sec. 6; 1958, ch. 505, Sec. 11; 1962, ch. 512, Sec. 2; 1966, ch. 541, Sec. 2; 1968, ch. 536; 1972, ch. 472, Sec. 1; 1974, ch. 312; 1978, ch. 518, Sec. 1; 1981, ch. 345, Sec. 1; reenacted, 1982, ch. 389, Sec. 15; 1983, ch. 530; 1987, ch. 343, Sec. 4; reenacted and amended, 1990, ch. 530, Sec. 13; 1991, ch. 525, Sec. 5, eff from and after passage (approved April 10, 1991). Reenacted without change, Laws, 1993, ch. 616, Sec. 11, eff from and after August 30, 1993 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the amendment of this section); reenacted without change, 1996, ch. 526, Sec. 12, eff from and after the date said ch. 526 is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended; reenacted without change, Laws, 1998, Ch. 303, § 12, HB 1291, eff July 1, 1998.

NOTE:  Laws, 1998, Ch. 303, § 25, provides as follows:

SECTION 25. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1998, if it is effectuated on or before that date under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended. If it is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended, after July 1, 1998, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date it is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended.