New Hampshire § 12-G-37 - Section 12-G:37 Pease Development Authority Ports and Harbors Fund.

§ 12-G-37. Section 12-G:37 Pease Development Authority Ports and Harbors Fund.

I. For the purpose of providing a fund to be known as the Pease Development Authority Ports and Harbors Fund, the state treasurer shall credit to such fund any appropriation made to the authority for each fiscal year relating to the division, division property, a division project, or any activity of the division, except any appropriation made to the harbor dredging and pier maintenance fund in accordance with RSA 12-G:46. II. All sums so credited are appropriated to the authority for the benefit of the division: (a) To purchase, lease, acquire, own, improve, use, sell, convey, transfer, or otherwise deal in and with division property, a division project, or any interest therein, whether tangible or intangible, as otherwise authorized under this chapter; (b) To pay the costs of operating, maintaining, improving, and repairing all division property and division projects; (c) To pay all costs as allocated by the authority for administering and operating the division, including, but not limited to, all wages, salaries, benefits, and other expenses authorized by the board, the executive director, the division director, or other provision of law, including without limitation, reimbursement of the fund established under RSA 12-G:36 or any other source of revenue of the authority other than division revenues to the extent that the wages, salary, benefits, or other expenses, including without limitation reasonable overhead expenses, of any employee of the authority assigned to carry out any responsibility, task, or duty of the division are paid from the fund established under RSA 12-G:36 or from revenues of the authority other than division revenues; (d) To pay the principal of, and premium, if any, and the interest on any outstanding bonds of the state related to division property or division projects as the same become due and payable; (e) To create and maintain reserves required or provided for in any resolution authorizing, or any security document securing, such bonds of the authority related to division property or division projects; (f) To pay all payments in lieu of taxes owed by the authority, if any, related to division property or division projects; and (g) In general for the payment of all expenses incident to the management and operation of the division, division property, or division projects as are consistent with its statutory purpose and as the board may from time to time determine. III. This fund shall constitute a continuing nonlapsing appropriation for the benefit of the division. IV. Money in this fund shall be paid to the treasurer of the authority on manifests approved by the governor and council in the same manner as other state claims are paid, provided that there shall be advanced to the treasurer such money as may be requested by the treasurer of the authority and approved by the governor and council, and provided further that manifests covering the money so advanced shall be submitted according to regular procedure at the earliest practicable time. V. Division revenues or any other revenues, other than revenues from or associated with airport property or airport projects, received and due to the authority shall be retained by the authority and shall be used for division property or division projects in such manner as the board may determine consistent with the provisions of this chapter or as is otherwise provided by law or by the terms and conditions incident to any gift, grant, devise, bequest, trust, or security document. VI. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no money in the fund shall be used for or paid on account of any obligation or liability of the authority related to or arising out of the ownership, operation, or maintenance of airport property or airport projects.