Article 9 Section 14 - Use and distribution of vehicle, user, and gasoline and diesel tax receipts
14. Use and distribution of vehicle, user, and
gasoline and diesel tax receipts
Section 14. No moneys derived from fees, excises, or license
taxes relating to registration, operation, or use of vehicles on the public
highways or streets or to fuels or any other energy source used for the
propulsion of vehicles on the public highways or streets, shall be expended
for other than highway and street purposes including the cost of administering
the state highway system and the laws creating such fees, excises, or license
taxes, statutory refunds and adjustments provided by law, payment of principal
and interest on highway and street bonds and obligations, expenses of state
enforcement of traffic laws and state administration of traffic safety
programs, payment of costs of publication and distribution of Arizona highways
magazine, state costs of construction, reconstruction, maintenance or repair
of public highways, streets or bridges, costs of rights of way acquisitions
and expenses related thereto, roadside development, and for distribution to
counties, incorporated cities and towns to be used by them solely for highway
and street purposes including costs of rights of way acquisitions and expenses
related thereto, construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, roadside
development, of county, city and town roads, streets, and bridges and payment
of principal and interest on highway and street bonds. As long as the total
highway user revenues derived equals or exceeds the total derived in the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, the state and any county shall not receive
from such revenues for the use of each and for distribution to cities and
towns, fewer dollars than were received and distributed in such fiscal
year. This section shall not apply to moneys derived from the automobile
license tax imposed under section 11 of article IX of the Constitution of
Arizona. All moneys collected in accordance with this section shall be
distributed as provided by law.