N.H. Rev. Stat. § 12-G:36

Current through the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 12-G:36 - Pease Development Authority Airport Fund; Expenditure of Other Revenues
I. For the purpose of providing a fund to be known as the Pease Development Authority Airport Fund, the state treasurer shall credit to such fund any appropriation made to the authority for each fiscal year excluding division revenues and any appropriation related to the division, division property, a division project, or any activity of the division.
II. All sums so credited are appropriated to the authority:
(a) To purchase, lease, acquire, own, improve, use, sell, convey, transfer, or otherwise deal in and with airport property, an airport 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 airport property and airport projects of the authority;
(c) To pay the costs of administering and operating the authority, including, but not limited to, all wages, salaries, benefits, and other expenses authorized by the board or the executive director but excluding any such costs related to administering and operating the division, division property, or any division project;
(d) To pay the principal of, and premium, if any, and the interest on the outstanding bonds of the authority related to airport property or airport projects as the same become due and payable;
(e) To create and maintain reserves established pursuant to RSA 12-G:18 or required or provided for in any resolution authorizing, or any security document securing, such bonds of the authority related to airport property or airport projects;
(f) To create and maintain a capital improvement fund for airport property and airport projects to be established by the board in an amount not more than $10,000,000;
(g) To pay all taxes owed by the authority related to airport property or airport projects;
(h) To pay any excess revenues authorized pursuant to RSA 12-G:12; and
(i) In general for the payment of all expenses incident to the management and operation of the authority, excluding such expenses related to the management and operation of the division, division property, or any division project, as are consistent with its statutory purpose and as the board thereof may from time to time determine.
III. This fund shall constitute a continuing appropriation for the benefit of the authority. Any amount remaining in this fund to the credit of the authority at the close of any fiscal year shall be nonlapsing and shall be carried over and credited to its account for the succeeding year.
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. The revenues received and due to the authority from all other sources, except by way of state appropriation or division revenues, from whatever source derived shall be retained by the authority and shall be used 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 revenues of the authority other than division revenues 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 the division, division property, or any division project.

RSA 12-G:36

2001, 290:6, eff. July 1, 2001.