81-201.05.

Weed Book Cash Fund; created; use; investment.

(1) The Weed Book Cash Fund is created. On July 1, 2005, July 1, 2006, July 1, 2007, July 1, 2008, and July 1, 2009, if there are sufficient funds available, twenty-five thousand dollars shall be transferred from the Weed Book Cash Fund to the Noxious Weed Cash Fund. Transfers may be made from the Weed Book Cash Fund to the General Fund at the direction of the Legislature. Any money in the Weed Book Cash Fund available for investment shall be invested by the state investment officer pursuant to the Nebraska Capital Expansion Act and the Nebraska State Funds Investment Act.

(2) The sale price of each Weeds of the Great Plains book sold by the Department of Agriculture shall be credited as follows:

(a) Seventy-five percent to the Weed Book Cash Fund to aid in defraying the cost of publishing, preparing, and distributing such books and any supplemental inserts to such books; and

(b) Twenty-five percent to the Noxious Weed Cash Fund.