(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, within the limits of funds appropriated to the department of agriculture and the soil and water conservation district assistance fund created in this section, there shall be paid in each calendar year to each soil and water conservation district an amount not to exceed one dollar for each one dollar received in accordance with section 940.12 of the Revised Code, received from tax levies in excess of the ten-mill levy limitation approved for the benefit of soil and water conservation districts, received pursuant to a contract entered into under section 6117.021 of the Revised Code, or received from an appropriation by a municipal corporation or a township to a maximum of eight thousand dollars, provided that the Ohio soil and water conservation commission may approve payment to a district in an amount in excess of eight thousand dollars in any calendar year upon receipt of a request and justification from the district. The county auditor shall credit such payments to the special fund established pursuant to section 940.12 of the Revised Code for the soil and water conservation district. The department may make advances at least quarterly to each district on the basis of the estimated contribution of the state to each district. Moneys received by each district shall be expended for the purposes of the district.
(B) Money paid to a soil and water conservation district under division (A) of this section that results from a board of county commissioners' compensation to the district pursuant to a contract entered into under section 6117.021 of the Revised Code in calendar years 2015, 2016, and 2017 shall not exceed the amount of money paid to the district under that division during calendar year 2013 that resulted from the board of county commissioners' having used the proceeds of a contract entered into between the board of county commissioners and a district of a type similar to that which is authorized by section 6117.021 of the Revised Code, directly or indirectly, for matching funds in calendar year 2013, but may exceed that amount to the extent that other sources of local matching funds specified by division (A) of this section are used by the district for local matching funds in state fiscal years 2015, 2016, and 2017.
(C) For the purpose of providing money to soil and water conservation districts under this section, there is hereby created in the state treasury the soil and water conservation district assistance fund consisting of money credited to it under sections 3714.073 and 3734.901 and division (A)(4) of section 3734.57 of the Revised Code.
Added by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 64, ยง101.01, eff. 1/1/2016.
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