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 ten million dollars for the purpose
of providing rural water and sewer grants and loans, 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. The general assembly may
enact such laws as may be necessary to carry this amendment into effect.
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