LD 1600
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F.__The ATV Recreational Management Fund of the Department
of Conservation; and

 
G.__Boating access sites.

 
2.__Additional funding.__The appropriation of certain
additional funds are governed by the following.

 
A.__Appropriations to the Department-wide Inland Fisheries
and Wildlife program in the department for costs that are
associated with search and rescue may not be considered
amounts appropriated to the department under the
Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 22.__The
liability of the General Fund for search and rescue costs is
limited to the amount appropriated.

 
B.__General Fund appropriations to the Fiscal Stability
Program under subsection 9 may not be considered to be
amounts appropriated to the department under the
Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 22.

 
3.__Revenues.__Actual revenues received in excess of that
estimated and allocated by the Legislature may not be expended
without allocation by the Legislature, except that excess federal
revenues received are subject to the expenditure provisions of
Title 5, section 1669.

 
4.__Unencumbered balances.__Any unencumbered allocated
balances, including existing balances, must be carried forward
into the next fiscal year and may not be expended without
allocation by the Legislature, except as provided in this
section.__Unencumbered balances in the boating access sites
account are nonlapsing and must be carried forward to be used for
the same purpose.

 
5.__Nonlapsing appropriations.__General Fund appropriations to
the department may not lapse but must be carried forward in a
separate General Fund program to be used by the department for
the purposes described in section 10801, subsection 5.__ The
department, pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article IX,
Section 22, shall seek legislatively authorized transfers from
this program to meet the various costs associated with the
department's other programs.

 
6.__Savings fund; offset against future fee increases.__A
savings fund, referred to in this subsection as the "fund," is
established in the department.__Appropriations to the fund are
considered funds appropriated to the department under the meaning
of the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 22.__Money
appropriated to the fund does not lapse but must be carried


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