§ 62-853. Use of funds.

(a)

The collecting and administering governmental units shall be entitled to up to but not more than eight percent of the funds collected under this division to compensate them for the administrative expense of collecting the fee and administering this division. All remaining funds collected from emergency medical services facilities impact fees shall be used for the purpose of capital improvements to emergency medical services facilities under the jurisdiction of the county or the state, or community and regional emergency medical services facilities under the jurisdiction of the county, and not for maintenance or operations. Such acquisitions and improvements shall be the type as are made necessary by new growth and development in the county.

(b)

Funds shall be used exclusively for capital improvements within the emergency medical services facilities impact fee district, as identified in appendix I of Ordinance No. 01-021, from which the funds were collected. Funds shall be expended in the order in which they are collected.

(c)

Each fiscal period, the county manager shall present to the board of county commissioners a proposed capital improvement program for emergency medical services facilities, assigning funds, including any accrued interest, from the several emergency medical services facilities impact fee trust funds to specific emergency medical services facilities improvement projects and related expenses. Monies, including any accrued interest, not assigned in any fiscal period shall be retained in the same emergency medical services facilities impact fee trust funds until the next fiscal period, except as provided by the refund provisions of this division.

(Ord. No. 01-021, § 42, 4-4-01)