Section 10-35-21 - Distributions from wind energy tax fund.

10-35-21. Distributions from wind energy tax fund. The secretary shall distribute all of the tax deposited in the wind energy tax fund pursuant to § 10-35-18 and twenty percent of the tax deposited in the wind energy tax fund pursuant to § 10-35-19 to the county treasurer where the wind farm is located. If the wind energy tax fund contains less than twenty percent of the gross receipts tax from § 10-35-19, due to the transmission line rebate under § 10-35-22, the secretary shall distribute the remainder of funds after the rebate to the county treasurer where the wind farm is located. If a wind farm is located in more than one county, each county shall receive the same percentage of the tax as the percentage of wind towers in the wind farm located in the county. Upon receipt of the taxes, the county auditor shall apportion the tax among all taxing jurisdictions where a wind tower is located. The tax shall be apportioned in the same manner as agricultural real property taxes would have been apportioned between the taxing jurisdictions. The secretary shall distribute the money to the counties on or before the first day of May.

Source: SL 2008, ch 49, § 6.