82-4-311. Hard-rock mining and reclamation account. All fees, fines, penalties, and other uncleared money that has been or will be paid to the department under the provisions of this part must be placed in the state special revenue fund in the state treasury and credited to a special account that is designated as the hard-rock mining and reclamation account. This account is available to the department by appropriation and may be expended for the research, reclamation, and revegetation of land and the rehabilitation of water affected by any mining operations. Any unencumbered and any unexpended balance of this account remaining at the end of a fiscal year does not lapse but must be carried forward for the purposes of this section until expended or until appropriated by subsequent legislative action.

     History: En. 50-1227 by Sec. 1, Ch. 29, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 50-1227; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 277, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 383, Ch. 418, L. 1995.