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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="12-824.1" title_number="12" title_name="Building and Material Codes; Other Safety Provisions" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Elevator Safety">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “Fund” means the Elevator Safety Review Board Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>There is an Elevator Safety Review Board Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The purpose of the Fund is to cover the actual documented direct and indirect costs of fulfilling the statutory and regulatory duties of the Board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Commissioner shall administer the Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <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="f">
    <text>The Fund consists of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>revenue distributed to the Fund under this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>money appropriated in the State budget to the Fund;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>investment earnings of the Fund; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>any other money from any other source accepted for the benefit of the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>The Fund may be used only to cover the actual documented direct and indirect costs of fulfilling the statutory and regulatory duties of the Board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <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 investment earnings of the Fund shall be paid into the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>Expenditures from the Fund may be made only in accordance with the State budget.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>Any balance in the Fund at the end of June 30 of each fiscal year in excess of 10% of the actual expenses of operating the Elevator Safety Review Board shall revert to the General Fund of the State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>The Legislative Auditor shall audit the accounts and transactions of the Fund as provided in § 2–1220 of the State Government Article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
