(1) The State Board of Higher Education shall maintain with the State Treasurer, a Higher Education Isolation Facility Bond Sinking Fund, separate and distinct from the General Fund. The Higher Education Isolation Facility Bond Sinking Fund shall provide for the payment of principal and interest of bonds issued under the authority of Article XI-F(1) of the Oregon Constitution and ORS 351.350 in an amount equal to the amount authorized for expenditure by section 3 (2)(b), chapter 709, Oregon Laws 1971, and expended as provided therein. The sinking fund may be invested by the State Treasurer, and the earnings from such investments shall be credited to the sinking fund.
(2) The Higher Education Isolation Facility Bond Sinking Fund shall consist of moneys received as net revenues from the isolation facilities for which the expenditure of funds is authorized by section 3 (2)(b), chapter 709, Oregon Laws 1971, including gifts, grants and building fees, moneys received as accrued interest on bonds sold, earnings from investments on the sinking fund, the proceeds of the sale of refunding bonds and any accrued interest on such refunding bonds, moneys appropriated to the sinking fund by the Legislative Assembly and moneys received for the purposes of the sinking fund from all other sources. All moneys in the sinking fund are continuously appropriated to the board for the purposes provided in subsection (1) of this section.
(3) The sinking fund shall not be used for any purpose other than that for which the fund was created; but should a balance remain therein after the purpose for which the fund was created has been fulfilled, or the sinking fund and investments thereof, will, in the judgment of the board, be sufficient to meet in full the principal of and the interest upon all Higher Education Isolation Facility bonds then such excess funds may be transferred by the board to funds to be used for research related to veterinary medicine. [1971 c.688 §3; 1973 c.809 §2; 1975 c.550 §13; 1977 c.281 §5; 1977 c.855 §19; 1981 c.660 §31; 1987 c.452 §1; 1995 c.79 §193; 1995 c.110 §6]
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