5. All funds paid into the water pollution control bond and interest fund shall be and
stand appropriated without legislative action to the payment of principal
and interest
of the bonds, there to remain until paid out in discharge of the principal of such bonds
and the interest accruing thereon, and no part of such fund shall be used for any other
purpose so long as any of the principal of such bonds and the interest thereon shall
be unpaid. The general assembly may appropriate in any year such amount from the
water pollution control fund as it determines to be necessary for the purposes specified
herein. However,
such appropriations may not exceed fifty million dollars, in the
aggregate, for the purpose of providing rural water and sewer grants, including grants
for the establishment of water supply hook-ups from unincorporated areas of any
county to water supplies, whether or not a particular county as a whole is classified as
rural, administered by the department of natural resources pursuant to law, and may
not exceed twenty-five million dollars, in the aggregate, for the purpose of storm water
control. The general assembly may enact such laws as may be necessary to carry this
amendment into effect.
Structure Missouri constitution