3.__Determination of abandoned deposit amounts.__The initiator's abandoned deposit amount, at the end of each month, is the amount equal to the amount of deposits that are or should be in the fund, less the sum of:

A.__Income earned on amounts in the fund during that month; and

B.__The total amount of refund values received by the initiator for nonrefillable beverage containers during that month and the 2 preceding months.

Income on the fund may be transferred from the fund for use as funds of the initiator.

4.__Transfer of abandoned deposit amounts.__By the 20th day of each month, an initiator shall turn over to the executive director of Maine Revenue Services within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services the initiator's abandoned deposit amounts determined pursuant to subsection 3.__Those amounts may be paid from the deposit transaction fund.__Amounts collected by the executive director pursuant to this subsection must be deposited in the General Fund.

5.__Reimbursement of initiators of deposit.__If in any month the authorized payments from the deposit transaction fund by an initiator pursuant to this section exceed the funds that are or should be in the initiator's deposit transaction fund, the State shall reimburse the initiator, from amounts received pursuant to subsection 4, for those refunds paid by the initiator for nonrefillable beverage containers for which the funds that are or should be in the initiator's deposit transaction fund are insufficient; except that reimbursements paid by the State to an initiator may not exceed amounts paid by the initiator to the State pursuant to subsection 4 in the preceding 24 months less amounts paid by the State to the initiator pursuant to this