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AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE STATE SOIL CONSERVATION COMMISSION FOR THE PURCHASE OF HEAVY EARTH-MOVING MACHINERY AND OTHER EQUIPMENT NEEDED IN THE SOIL CONSERVATION WORK OF THE STATE, MAKING PROVISION FOR THE RE-PAYMENT THEREOF, AND DESIGNATING THE BOARDS OF SOIL DISTRICT SUPERVISORS TO OVERSEE THE USE OF SAID EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY.
WHEREAS, there exists the need of heavy earth-moving equipment by the Boards of Soil District Supervisors of the Soil Conservation Districts of the State for the purpose of cleaning out the main drainage ditches; and
WHEREAS, the cleaning of these ditches is imperative to the effective drainage of the farm lands, the economic crop production, and the general health and welfare of the people;
NOW, THEREFORE
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware:
Section 1. There is appropriated to the State Soil Conservation Commission the sum of $80,000 for the purchase of heavy earth-moving and other machinery and equipment needed in the soil conservation work of the State.
Section 2. The State Soil Conservation Commission upon application from the various County Boards of Soil Supervisors of the County Soil Conservation Districts shall allocate out of the total appropriation made to it by this Act, certain sums or parts thereof for use by such County Boards for the purchase of heavy earth-moving and other machinery needed in the soil conservation work of the State, and shall turn over the funds allocated as in this Section provided to the applying Board or Boards of District Soil Supervisors.
Section 3. The various County Boards of Soil Supervisors are authorized to use the machinery so purchased in Soil Conservation work, and to make a charge for such use sufficient to cover cost of operation and repayment cost when work is done for individual persons, corporations or associations of the State.
Section 4. The repayment charges received as provided in Section 3 hereof shall be remitted by the various County Boards of Soil Supervisors to the State Soil Conservation Commission to be turned over by said Commission to the State Treasurer of the State of Delaware, at least monthly when funds are received from such use.
Section 5. The money so collected by a County Board of Supervisors shall be credited on the books of the State Soil Conservation Commission and upon the books of the State Treasurer as re-payments on account of the total amount allocated for use in a certain Soil Conservation District and shall be deposited to the credit of the General Fund.
Section 6. The earth-moving and other machinery and equipment needed for the soil conservation work of the State purchased as aforesaid shall become the property of the County Board of Soil Supervisors upon repayment by said Board of the total sum allocated to it for the purchase of the same. For the purpose of such repayment, each County Board of Soil Supervisors shall be allowed the term of 5 years from the date conservation funds are received by it out of the total appropriation hereby made.
Section 7. Until all loans made against this appropriation and previous appropriations for the purchase of earth-moving and other machinery and equipment have been paid in full, such loans shall be considered a lien against said equipment by the State of Delaware and shall be satisfied before the sale of such equipment may be made by the County Board of Soil Supervisors.
Section 8. The funds hereby appropriated shall become available after the first day of July, A. D. 1961, and shall be available for use as herein provided for a period of 10 years from said date, and shall be paid by the State Treasurer upon warrants approved by the proper officials of the State Soil Conservation Commission.
Section 9. This Act shall be known as a supplementary appropriation act and the funds hereby appropriated shall be paid out of the General Fund of the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated unless an omnibus bond bill, including the above appropriation, is enacted into law by the 121st General Assembly of the State of Delaware in which event the above appropriation shall be paid out of moneys received by the sale of bonds authorized under said Act.
Approved July 10, 1962.