§ 346.135 — Hearing instrument specialist fund, created, uses — amount of fund to lapse.

Missouri § 346.135

• Jurisdiction: Missouri
• Title XXII: OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS
• Ch. 346: Hearing Aid Fitters and Dealers

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1.  All fees and charges payable pursuant to this chapter shall be collected by the division and transmitted to the department of revenue for deposit in the state treasury to the credit of the fund to be known as the "Hearing Instrument Specialist Fund", which is hereby created.  Money in the hearing instrument specialist fund shall be available by appropriation to the council to pay its expenses in administering sections 346.010 to 346.250 .

2.  Money in the hearing instrument specialist fund shall not be transferred and placed to the credit of general revenue until the amount in the fund at the end of the biennium exceeds two times the amount of the appropriation from the council's funds for the preceding fiscal year or, if the division requires by rule renewal less frequently than yearly then three times the appropriation from the fund for the preceding fiscal year.  The amount, if any, in the fund which shall lapse is that amount in the fund which exceeds the appropriate multiple of the appropriation from the council's funds for the preceding year.

Legislative History

(L. 1973 H.B. 396 & 257 § 28, A.L. 1981 S.B. 16, A.L. 1995 S.B. 58 merged with S.B. 69, et al., A.L. 2004 S.B. 1122)