Section 30051.

(a) The Local Public Safety Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. The fund shall consist of the Interim Public Safety Account to receive all revenues deposited therein pursuant to former paragraph (8) of, and the Public Safety Account to receive all those revenues deposited therein pursuant to former paragraph (9) of, subdivision (a) of Section 7102 of the Revenue and Taxation Code. Moneys in the fund may only be appropriated for the purposes specified in Section 30052.

(b) Notwithstanding any other law, the Controller may use the moneys in the Public Safety Account in the Local Public Safety Fund for loans to the General Fund as provided in Sections 16310 and 16381. However, interest shall be paid on all moneys loaned to the General Fund from the Public Safety Account in the Local Public Safety Fund. Interest payable shall be computed at a rate determined by the Pooled Money Investment Board to be the current earning rate of the fund from which loaned. This subdivision does not authorize any transfer that will interfere with the carrying out of the object for which the Public Safety Account in the Local Public Safety Fund was created.

(Amended by Stats. 2009, 3rd Ex. Sess., Ch. 9, Sec. 14. Effective February 20, 2009.)