Section 1454.

(a) The Central Coast Veterans Cemetery Master Development Fund is hereby renamed the California Central Coast State Veterans Cemetery at Fort Ord Operations Fund. Moneys in the Operations Fund may be transferred, upon appropriation by the Legislature, from the Endowment Fund to the Operations Fund for expenditure by the department, solely for the annual operations and maintenance costs of the veterans cemetery.

(b) (1) The Controller shall reserve an amount, not to exceed 20 percent of the amount allocated pursuant to subdivision (a), in the Operations Fund, which shall be used solely as a reserve for unforeseen operations and maintenance costs.

(2) For purposes of this subdivision, "unforeseen operations and maintenance costs" means any costs that could not have been reasonably anticipated by the department when preparing its estimate of annual operations and maintenance costs and that are needed to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 694, Sec. 5. Effective October 10, 2013.)