State parks accounts.

2017
STATE OF WYOMING
17LSO-0125
Introduced
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HOUSE BILL

NO.
HB0031

State parks accounts.

Sponsored by:
Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources Interim Committee

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to state parks and cultural resources; providing for earnings to accrue to certain accounts to be expended by the department of state parks and cultural resources; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 31
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409(c), 31
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2
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703(c) and 39
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17
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111(c)(ii) through (iv) are amended to read:

31
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2
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409
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Snowmobile user fee; amount of fee; disposition of fees; account created; duties of department
of state parks and cultural resources; duration of decal; exemptions.

(c)

There is hereby created a snowmobile trails account. Except as provided in this subsection, the monies collected under this section and forwarded to the department of state parks and cultural resources shall be deposited in the account created by this section and may be expended by the department subject to approval by the legislature for the administration of the snowmobile trails program.
Interest on funds in the snowmobile trails account shall accrue to the account.

All voluntary fees collected under subsection (h) of this section shall be deposited in the search and rescue account created by W.S. 19
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13
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301(a).

31
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2
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703
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Required user registration fee; disposition of fees; duties of department of state parks and cultural resources.

(c)

There is created an off
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road recreational vehicle trails account. Except as provided in this subsection, the
fees received by the department of state parks and cultural resources under this article shall be deposited into the account created by this subsection and shall be expended by the department for the administration of the off
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road recreational vehicle trails program.
Interest on funds in the off
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road recreational vehicle trails account shall accrue to the account.

All voluntary fees collected under subsection (e) of this section shall be deposited in the search and rescue account created by W.S. 19
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13
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301(a).

39
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111
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Distribution.

(c)

The department shall credit to appropriate accounts based upon deductions from the taxes collected under this article in the following order:

(ii)

Deduct an amount collected on fuel used in snowmobiles, computed by multiplying the number of snowmobiles for which registration and user fees have been paid during the current fiscal year under W.S. 31
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404(a)(i) and 31
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2
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409(a)(ii) times twenty
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eight dollars and seventy
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five cents ($28.75) plus the number of
gallons of gasoline used by snowmobiles for which registration fees have been paid during the current fiscal year under W.S. 31
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2
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404(a)(ii) times the current gasoline tax rate as defined by W.S. 39
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104(a)(i). The number of gallons used by commercial snowmobiles shall be reported to the department by all businesses offering commercial snowmobile recreational leasing. The amounts computed shall be credited to a separate account

to be expended by the department of state parks and cultural resources to improve snowmobile trails in Wyoming
.

Interest on funds in the account shall accrue to the account
;

(iii)

Deduct an amount collected on fuel used in motorboats, computed by multiplying the number of motorboats numbered during the current fiscal year under W.S. 41
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102 and five thousand (5,000) nonresident motorboats times twenty
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eight dollars and seventy
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five cents ($28.75). The amount computed shall be credited to a

separate account

to be expended by the department of state parks and cultural resources to improve facilities for use by motorboats and motorboat users at state parks and state recreation areas and to provide grants to governmental
entities for improvement of publicly owned boating facilities at public parks and recreational facilities
. Interest on funds in the account shall accrue to the account
;

(iv)

Deduct an amount collected on fuel used in off
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road recreational vehicles, computed by multiplying the number of off
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road recreational vehicles for which user registration fees have been paid during the current fiscal year under W.S. 31
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2
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703(a) times eighteen dollars and forty cents ($18.40). The amount computed shall be credited to a separate account

to be expended by the department of state parks and cultural resources to improve off
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road recreational vehicle trails in Wyoming.

Interest on funds in the account shall accrue to the account.

Section

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This
act is effective July 1,
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