§ 111.225. Victim Assistance Services Trust Fund.

There is created within the General Trust and Agency Fund a trust fund account to be known as the Victim Assistance Services Trust Fund, hereinafter called the Fund. The Chief of Social Services Division shall deposit into the fund all restitution, fines, forfeitures, surcharges, court costs and other payments of any kind or nature whatsoever as may be authorized by law to be paid or payable, directly or indirectly, to Duval County, the City, or the Victim Assistance Services Program and all donations and contributions of money, including gifts and grants, received for use toward achieving the purposes, functions and goals of the Victim Assistance Services Program. All such donations and contributions shall be accounted for separately within the fund by the Chief of Behavioral and Human Services. All sums placed into the fund shall be appropriated by the Council, prior to expenditure thereof, for the purposes of establishing, operating, maintaining and improving the Victim Assistance Services Program, including but not limited to providing direct emergency financial assistance to victims of crime such as payment for emergency home repairs resulting from crime-caused damages, emergency relocation funds, and monies to pay for the cost of transportation and other emergency needs for which no source is immediately available to provide such relief. The Director of Recreation and Parks, or his designee, is authorized to promulgate rules and procedures governing the expenditures of this Fund. Such appropriations shall not lapse at the close of any fiscal year, but instead shall carry over to the next fiscal year. The Director of Finance and Administration, or his designee, is authorized and directed to make disbursements from the fund upon written requisition of the Chief of Behavioral and Human Services, or his designee, subject to the availability of funds in the fund. Nothing in this Section shall prohibit or otherwise limit any appropriations which may be made by the Council to the Victim Assistance Services Program for use toward achieving its purposes, functions and goals.

In the event that an emergency (as defined by the Director of Recreation and Parks rules and procedures) occurs and the appropriated funds are insufficient, but there are available unappropriated resources within the fund, then the Director of Recreation and Parks, or his designee, is authorized to provide for the emergency from these unappropriated resources. The Director of Recreation and Parks, or his designee, shall as soon as practical request an additional appropriation from the Council.

(Ord. 87-574-882, § 1; Ord. 88-991-497, § 1; Ord. 2006-422-E, § 48; Ord. 2011-732-E; Ord. 2013-209-E, § 40; Ord. 2016-140-E , § 16)

Editor's note— Ordinance 2007-839-E, § 18, authorized updated department/division names pursuant to reorganization.

Note— Former § 110.346.