2025 Minnesota Statutes

115.073 DISPOSITION OF RECEIPTS; ENFORCEMENT FUNDING.

(a) Except as provided in section 115C.05, all money recovered by the state under this chapter and chapters 115A and 116, including civil penalties and money paid under an agreement, stipulation, or settlement, excluding money paid for past due fees or taxes, must be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the environmental fund.

(b) Oversight funds reimbursed under sections 115.03, subdivision 1, paragraph (a), clause (5), and 116.07, subdivision 9, clause (4), must be deposited in a separate settlement oversight reimbursement account established in the environmental fund. The commissioner must manage the account. Earnings, such as interest, dividends, and any other earnings arising from assets of the account, must be credited to the account. Funds remaining in the account at the end of a fiscal year remain in the account. Money in the account is appropriated to the commissioner for the purposes of the environmental fund.

History:

1991 c 347 art 1 s 4; 2003 c 128 art 2 s 3; 2009 c 37 art 1 s 38; 2024 c 116 art 2 s 6