A special fund is hereby created under the Administrator’s administration, which shall be known as: “Special Fund for Services and Representation of Support for the Elderly Cases”.
The funds that the Program receives for services rendered, donations, incentives, income, fines, charges, interest, penalties, expenses, costs, fees, or appropriations to carry out the objectives of this chapter and other funds originating from any other item authorized in this chapter, shall be accounted for in the books of the Secretary of the Treasury, separate from any other funds received by the Department in order to expedite their identification, administration and use by the Program.
The Administrator shall use the resources of this special fund for the purposes and ends authorized in this chapter, subject to applicable conditions and restrictions, including the payment of necessary expenses in the rendering of elderly support services to the persons who thus request them.
Said funds shall be accounted for without a specific fiscal year and shall be governed pursuant to the norms and regulations adopted by the Secretary in harmony with the provisions in effect for the administration of similar funds.
History —Aug. 12, 2000, No. 168, § 7, renumbered as § 6 and amended on Aug. 17, 2002, No. 193, § 7.