New Jersey § 18a:51-9

§ 18a:51-9.

Each county educational audiovisual aids commission shall forward to the commissioner,

on or before September 1 of each year, a statement of its organization and its proposed

program of operation for the next ensuing school year, together with an estimate of

the amount of State aid, calculated as hereinafter provided, to which it will be entitled

for that school year and it shall certify, on or before the next June 30, the amount

raised by assessments and private donations for the purposes of such audiovisual center

for the said school year and if the amount so raised by assessments or private donations

or both for any one school year, for the establishment and maintenance or for the

maintenance of such aids center shall be not less than the sum of $500.00, and if

the commissioner shall approve such organization and program he shall thereupon certify

to the Director of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury that there

shall be paid to the custodian of moneys of the commission an amount equal to the

amount so raised by assessments and private donations out of any funds appropriated

by law for said purposes, which amount shall be paid on the warrant of said director

drawn on the State Treasurer in favor of the custodian of moneys of the commission

except that the amount so to be paid by the State to any such commission shall not

exceed the sum of $5,000.00 in any 1 year nor shall it exceed the sum expended by

the commission for educational audiovisual aids purchased by it in any year after

the first 5 annual payments have been made. If the sum appropriated by the State for State aid to county educational audiovisual

centers in any 1 year shall be less than the total amounts so certified by the commissioner,

each commission shall be entitled to be paid its proportionate share of the total

amount so appropriated.