54:8A-106. Transportation benefits fund; use of fund

(a) All moneys which shall be received by way of tax or by way of moneys deducted and withheld under this act, shall be kept in a special fund, to be known as the Transportation Benefit Fund, separate and apart from all other funds, and the moneys in such fund at any time shall be used only for one or more of the following purposes, within the limits of available appropriations made by law from time to time:

(1) to meet the expenses of administering the provisions of this act and of the regulations made hereunder and the expenses of any proceedings or actions involving the same;

(2) to defray the cost of, or to provide financing by way of advances, loans or otherwise for, projects and programs to meet transportation problems, whether such transportation be by motor vehicle, by rail or rapid transit, or by any other mode or vehicle of transportation whatever, when such project or program includes the transportation of persons or property interstate, between the State of New Jersey and the source state, from which states taxpayers derive income or gain subject to tax under this act, and for the furnishing of such other facilities, services or other benefits for which the class of taxpayers covered by this act will be the major eligible recipient and for which the tax imposed by this act may reasonably be exacted, as may be authorized by law from time to time;

(3) to make payment of refunds to taxpayers entitled to receive the same.

(b) funds in the Transportation Benefit Fund may not be used for any purpose except upon:

(1) presentation to the Attorney General of an itemization of the purposes for which funds are proposed to be used, stating the amount of each such proposed expenditure, which presentation shall be made by:

(A) The Director of the Division of Taxation, in the case of any purpose other than those described in subsection (a)(2) hereof, or

(B) The State Transportation Commissioner in the case of any purpose described in said subsection (a)(2), and upon

(2) transmittal of such itemization by the Attorney General to the State Treasurer, with a certification by the Attorney General endorsed thereon that the purposes for which funds are therein proposed to be used are within the terms and intent of the act and are otherwise in compliance with law.

L.1971, c. 222, s. 49, approved June 17, 1971; expired December 31, 1980 pursuant to L.1971,c.222,s.62.