§98.7. Tobacco Settlement Enforcement Fund
A. The Tobacco Settlement Enforcement Fund, hereinafter referred to as the "fund", is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of monies appropriated to the fund by the legislature, grants, donations, other monies which may become available, and monies transferred to the fund pursuant to this Section.
B. The state treasurer shall annually transfer from the state general fund to the fund the sum of four hundred thousand dollars. Monies in the fund shall be invested by the treasurer in the same manner as monies in the state general fund. Interest earned on investment of monies in the fund shall be credited to the state general fund. All unexpended and unencumbered monies in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund.
C. Subject to annual appropriation, monies in the fund shall be used and expended by the Department of Justice solely and exclusively for purposes of enforcement of the Master Settlement as defined in R.S. 39:99.3.
Acts 2007, No. 196, §1, eff. June 27, 2007.