Section 461.36. Local conservation partnership account — allocations.

  1.  A local conservation partnership account is created in the trust fund. Thirteen percent of the moneys credited to the trust fund shall be allocated to the account.

  2.  The department of natural resources shall distribute trust fund moneys from the account to local communities for the following initiatives:

  a.  The maintenance and improvement of parks, preserves, wildlife areas, wildlife habitats, native prairies, and wetlands.

  b.  Wildlife diversity.

  c.  Recreational purposes.

  d.  The improvement of water trails, rivers, and streams.

  e.  Education and outreach programs and projects that provide instruction regarding natural history and the outdoors. The subjects of such instruction may relate to opportunities involving recreational purposes, outdoor safety, and ethics.

  f.  Any other purpose described in section 350.1.

  3.  A local community may cooperate with the state or the federal government to carry out the initiative. Two or more local communities may form an entity if allowed under chapter 28E in order to carry out the initiative.

  4.  As used in this section, “local community” means a county conservation board, a city, or a nongovernmental organization operating on a nonprofit basis.

2010 Acts, ch 1158, §14, 17

; 2013 Acts, ch 90, §137