Current through the 2024 Regular Session
Section 71-3-95 - Payment of operating expense(1) The commission shall make such expenditures as may be necessary for the adequate administration of this chapter, including salaries and traveling expense, the cost of personal services, office rent at the seat of government and elsewhere, the purchase of books, periodicals, office equipment and supplies, printing and binding reports, the cost of membership in official organizations, and other purposes. All expenditures of the commission in the administration of this chapter shall be allowed and paid out of the State General Fund as provided in Section 71-3-100, upon the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor approved by the chairman of the commission.(2) The commission is authorized, in its discretion, to transfer a sum or sums not to exceed Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00) to the Second Injury Fund. The commission is further authorized, in its discretion, to replace any funds so transferred in the event that funds become available.Codes, 1942, § 6998-48; Laws, 1948, ch. 354, § 42; Laws, 1950, ch. 412, § 18; reenacted without change, Laws, 1982, ch. 473, § 48; Laws, 1984, ch. 497, § 2; Laws, 1987, ch. 361, § 7; reenacted without change, Laws, 1990, ch. 405, § 50, eff. 7/1/1990.Amended by Laws, 2017EX1, ch. 7, SB 2001,§ 28, eff. 6/23/2017.