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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="2-1504" title_number="2" title_name="Ambient Air Quality Control" subtitle_number="15" subtitle_name="Zero–emission Vehicle School Buses">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Zero–Emission Vehicle School Bus Transition Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The purpose of the Fund is to provide funding for the Program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Department, in consultation with the State Department of Education, shall administer the Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Fund is a special, nonlapsing fund that is not subject to § 7–302 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The State Treasurer shall hold the Fund separately, and the Comptroller shall account for the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Fund consists of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Money appropriated in the State budget to the Fund;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Interest earnings of the Fund;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Donations;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Money derived from legal settlements earmarked for the purpose of transitioning to school buses that are zero–emission vehicles; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Any other money from any other source accepted for the benefit of the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Fund may be used only for the Program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State Treasurer shall invest the money of the Fund in the same manner as other State money may be invested.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any interest earnings of the Fund shall be credited to the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>Expenditures from the Fund may be made only in accordance with the State budget.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>Money expended from the Fund for the Program is supplemental to and is not intended to take the place of funding that otherwise would be appropriated for the Program.</text>
  </level>
</section>
