§ 28-3-55 — Cost of Evidence Fund; Creation; Aid in Drug Law Enforcement; Appropriation

(a) The Law Enforcement Division of the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, for the procurement of evidence to aid in the criminal enforcement of the laws of this state, may establish a fund known as the “Cost of Evidence Fund” in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). This fund is to be administered by the Administrator of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, and upon approval, the State Comptroller shall draw a warrant on the State Treasury to create this fund. It shall be the responsibility of the Administrator of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to insure that the fund is maintained at an amount not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), and upon presentation to the Comptroller of the properly documented expenditures the Comptroller shall cause a warrant to be drawn to replenish this fund. The fund shall be managed by the Administrator of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to make such distributions from this fund to Alcoholic Beverage Control Board agents as deemed necessary.
(b) The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board may expend moneys for the purposes authorized in subsection (a), which moneys shall be paid from the funds appropriated to the Law Enforcement Division of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board for “other expenses.”

Legislative History

(Acts 1979, No. 79-699, p. 1243; Acts 1996, No. 96-477, p. 594, §1.)