The treasurer of state shall be treasurer and the auditor of state shall be auditor of all moneys derived from the use of the improvements authorized by sections 1523.01 to 1523.13 of the Revised Code. The treasurer of state shall hold the moneys as trustee for the maintenance of any improvements constructed under such sections, and for the holders of any bonds issued in accordance with section 1523.02 of the Revised Code. The moneys shall not be turned into the state treasury, but shall be deposited and disbursed by the treasurer of state in the manner provided in this section. All such moneys shall be collected by the treasurer of state on statements to be furnished by the chief of the division of soil and water resources and when so collected shall be deposited in solvent banks in the state upon the same terms as state funds are now loaned. The funds shall be kept by such banks in a fund known as the "water conservation fund" and shall be used, first, to maintain and keep in repair the dams, reservoirs, storage basins, and other improvements, and, second, to pay the interest upon and principal of the bonds issued and sold pursuant to section 1523.02 of the Revised Code, as such interest falls due or the bonds mature.
The banks in which the treasurer of state deposits any of the moneys belonging either to the water conservation improvement fund provided for in section 1523.02 of the Revised Code or the water conservation fund provided for in this section shall be state depository banks as provided for in sections 135.01 to 135.21 of the Revised Code. An amount not to exceed fifty thousand dollars of the money on deposit at any one time in the water conservation improvement fund, and an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars in the water conservation fund shall be held by any of the banks as an active deposit, and the banks shall pay the treasurer of state on such deposits, both active and inactive, the same rate of interest then being paid by them upon the funds of the state then deposited with them by the treasurer of state. All such payments of interest shall be credited to the respective funds upon which such interest is paid.
Amended by 128th General AssemblyFile No.9, HB 1, §101.01, eff. 7/17/2009.
Effective Date: 06-11-1968
Note: This section is set out twice. See also § 1523.07 , as amended by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 64, §101.01, eff. 1/1/2016.
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