Section 17-4-613 - Securities enforcement and compliance account; purposes(a) There is created the securities enforcement and compliance account. Funds within the account shall only be expended by legislative appropriation. All funds within the account shall be invested by the state treasurer and all investment earnings from the account shall be credited to the general fund.(b) The secretary of state shall credit sixty percent (60%) of all fees collected by the secretary of state under this act to the general fund and the balance to the securities enforcement and compliance account. Annually, on July 1, monies within the account in excess of three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000.00) in the securities enforcement and compliance account shall be credited to the general fund.(c) The secretary of state may expend money within the account created in subsection (a) of this section as appropriated by the legislature to investigate, prosecute and otherwise ensure compliance with this act and to promote investor awareness which may include investment and antifraud publications and seminars.(d) The secretary of state shall develop separately identifiable biennial expenditure requests using a base budget, standard budget and exception budget as provided in W.S. 9-2-1002 through 9-2-1014 for the purposes specified in this section and from the account created in subsection (a) of this section.Added by Laws 2016 , ch. 22, § 1, eff. 7/1/2017.