(a) The department may collect fees for certain services rendered by the department, including, but not limited to the following:
(1) SEARCH AND HANDLING FEES. These fees shall include, but not limited to, fees for conducting research for requests from outside the state and for handling all requests for reproducing special format materials.
(2) RECORDS CENTER AND MICROGRAPHICS STORAGE AND SERVICE FEES. These fees shall be collected from government agencies for storage, retrieval, and reproduction of nonpermanent records in the records center and for the security storage of microfilm. One year's notice shall be given to any agency prior to implementation of a storage fee.
(b) Fees for services shall be set by the board upon recommendation by the director and may be amended as required. Fees shall be based upon actual cost to the department for providing the services.
(c) There is created in the State Treasury a fund to be known and designated as the Archives Services Fund. Any revenue collected for services pursuant to subsection (a) shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Archives Services Fund.
(d) The expenditure of funds collected under subsection (a) shall be used by the department to help defray expenses incurred in providing the services.
(e) No funds deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Archives Services Fund shall be expended for any purpose whatsoever unless the same shall have been allotted and budgeted in accordance with the provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 41-4-80), Chapter 4, Title 41, and only in the amounts and for the purposes provided by the Legislature.
(f) Funds deposited in the Archives Services Fund shall not revert to the General Fund of the state but shall remain in the Archives Services Fund until expended by the department.
(g) There is appropriated from the Archives Services Fund to the department the sum of $25,000.00 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1993.
Structure Code of Alabama
Chapter 6 - Department of Archives and History.
Article 4 - Transfer, Removal, Disposal, etc., of Historical Materials.
Section 41-6-70 - Definitions.
Section 41-6-71 - De-Accession of Property; Archives Historical Collections Fund.
Section 41-6-72 - Property on Loan to Department.
Section 41-6-73 - Abandoned Property.
Section 41-6-75 - Conservation Measures to Property; Disposal of Property.
Section 41-6-76 - Collection of Fees for Services Rendered by Department; Archives Services Fund.