As Amended
SEC. 41-59-61. Emergency medical services operating fund; assessment on traffic violations.
(1) Such assessments as are collected under subsections (1) and (2) of Section 99-19-73 shall be deposited in a special fund hereby created in the State Treasury to be designated the "Emergency Medical Services Operating Fund." The Legislature may make appropriations from the Emergency Medical Services Operating Fund to the State Board of Health for the purpose of defraying costs of administration of the Emergency Medical Services program and for redistribution of such funds to the counties, municipalities and organized medical service districts (hereinafter referred to as "governmental units") for the support of the emergency medical services programs. The State Board of Health, with the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council acting in an advisory capacity, shall administer the disbursement to such governmental units of any funds appropriated to the board from the Emergency Medical Services Operating Fund and the utilization of such funds by the governmental units.
(2) Funds appropriated from the Emergency Medical Services Operating Fund to the State Board of Health shall be made available to all such governmental units to support the emergency medical services programs therein, and such funds shall be distributed to each governmental unit based upon its general population relative to the total population of the state. Disbursement of such funds shall be made on an annual basis at the end of the fiscal year upon the request of each governmental unit. Funds distributed to such governmental units shall be used in addition to existing annual emergency medical services budgets of the governmental units, and no such funds shall be used for the payment of any attorney's fees. The Director of the Emergency Medical Services program or his appointed designee is hereby authorized to require financial reports from the governmental units utilizing these funds in order to provide satisfactory proof of the maintenance of the funding effort by the governmental units.
SOURCES: Laws, 1982, ch. 344, Sec. 1; 1983, ch. 522, Sec. 38; 1985, ch. 352; 1985, ch. 440, Sec. 6; 1990, ch. 329, Sec. 7, eff from and after October 1, 1990.