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§18-9A-16. General school fund and its use.
There shall be established a separate school fund to be known as the "general school fund" which shall be administered by the same board as provided in section five, article nine of this chapter. The proceeds from the income of this school fund, and the interest thereon, as provided for under the irreducible school fund amendment to the constitution shall accrue to the general school fund which, with moneys appropriated by the Legislature, shall be used to support the public schools of the state. All other state funds and taxes formerly dedicated to the general school fund shall hereafter be paid into the state general fund.

No person who, at the time of passage of this article, depended on the general school fund in part or in whole for payment of his salary shall have his salary reduced by virtue of this article.