Section 23-1-62

State Highway Fund - Purposes for which used.

(a) All proceeds arising from the sale of state highway bonds and the revenue appropriated to the State Department of Transportation, when received by the State Treasurer, shall be set aside in a special fund known as the State Highway Fund and be used for no other purpose than in the carrying out of the provisions of this chapter. The revenue derived by the state from the sale of motor vehicle, trailer and tractor licenses and all other appropriations shall be used for the following purposes:

(1) To provide a sinking fund sufficient for the retirement of the said road bonds as they shall mature;

(2) For the expense of the State Department of Transportation and for the maintenance of roads and bridges constructed under the provisions of this chapter; and

(3) For the purchase of supplies and material, livestock and machinery, and any balance for the construction of roads and bridges.

(b) Annually, at such times as it may deem most convenient or suitable, the State Department of Transportation shall, out of said revenues, set apart a sum sufficient for the providing of said sinking fund and for the further expenses of the State Department of Transportation and the maintenance of roads and bridges, and the sum so set apart shall be used for no other purposes whatever. The proceeds of the sale of state road bonds and the moneys appropriated by Congress under the act known as the federal aid law shall be used exclusively for the purpose of constructing highways and bridges and the acquisition of bridges and of material.

(Code 1923, §1318; Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Code 1940, T. 23, §15.)