Montana § 20-9-508 Building Fund

Montana Statutes

§ 20-9-508 — Building Fund

Montana·Title 20 EDUCATION·Ch. 9 FINANCE·Part 5 Special Purpose Funds

20-9-508 . Building fund.

(1)The trustees of a district shall establish or credit the building fund whenever the district:

(a)issues and sells bonds under the school district bonding provisions of this title for purposes other than refunding bonds of the district;

(b)receives federal money for the express purpose of building, enlarging, or remodeling a school building or other building of the district;

(c)sells property of the district in accordance with the law authorizing the sale;

(d)earns interest from the investment of building fund money under the provisions of 20-9-213 (4), except that interest earned from the investment of bond money under the provisions of 20-9-435 must be credited to a fund in accordance with that section; or

(e)receives any other money, including payments

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20-9-508 . Building fund. (1) The trustees of a district shall establish or credit the building fund whenever the district:
(a) issues and sells bonds under the school district bonding provisions of this title for purposes other than refunding bonds of the district;
(b) receives federal money for the express purpose of building, enlarging, or remodeling a school building or other building of the district;
(c) sells property of the district in accordance with the law authorizing the sale;
(d) earns interest from the investment of building fund money under the provisions of 20-9-213 (4), except that interest earned from the investment of bond money under the provisions of 20-9-435 must be credited to a fund in accordance with that section; or
(e) receives any other money, including payments made by a developer under the provisions of 20-9-615 , for the express purpose of building, enlarging, or remodeling a school building or other building of the district.
(2) The financial administration of the building fund must be in accordance with the financial administration provisions of this title for a nonbudgeted fund and must provide for a separate accounting of the money realized by each bond issue or by each construction project financed by a federal grant of money. Any other money deposited to the credit of this fund must be expended for building, enlargement, remodeling, or repairing of buildings of the district at the discretion of the trustees.
(3) Money credited to the building fund under the provisions of subsection (1)(a) must be expended for the express purpose or purposes authorized by the bond proposition approved at the election authorizing the issuance of the bonds. Any money realized by the sale of bonds and remaining to the credit of the building fund after the full accomplishment of the purpose for which the bonds were sold must be transferred to the debt service fund to be used for the redemption of the bonds.
(4) Money credited to the building fund under the provisions of subsection (1)(b) must be expended for the express purpose or purposes authorized by the federal government in granting the money.

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