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§ 752. Offender work programs special fund
(a) An offender work programs special fund shall be maintained for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 751b of this title, which fund shall include any appropriations made from time to time by the state legislature and any sums obtained from the sale of goods and services produced by offenders pursuant to section 751b of this title. The special fund shall be managed pursuant to subchapter 5 of chapter 7 of Title 32.
(b) Any expenses incurred by offender work programs and the offender work programs board shall be defrayed by this fund.
(c) All balances of the fund remaining at the end of any fiscal year shall be carried forward and be made available for the succeeding fiscal year, and shall be kept as a special fund by the state treasurer, except that any balance at the end of a fiscal year not needed to maintain offender work programs or for other purposes provided by section 751b or 761 of this title shall by September 1 of the subsequent fiscal year be transferred to the victims' compensation fund established under chapter 167 of Title 13.
(d) The fund also may be used, at the discretion of the commissioner, to further the raising, harvesting and preservation of food.
(e) Purchases of materials for resale may be made from the fund, but the fund shall be maintained intact except for temporary depletion in making such purchases for resale.
(f) [Repealed.] (Added 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 20; amended 1997, No. 152 (Adj. Sess.), § 11; 1999, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 59, eff. May 24, 2000; 2009, No. 33, § 83( l )(1).)
