Arizona Constitution|Section 14 - Use and distribution of vehicle, user, and gasoline and diesel tax receipts

                                                




 14.  Use and distribution of vehicle, user, and
                   gasoline and diesel tax receipts
Section 14.  No moneys derived from fees, excises, or license
      taxes relating to registration, operation, or use of vehicles on the public
      highways or streets or to fuels or any other energy source used for the
      propulsion of vehicles on the public highways or streets, shall be expended
      for other than highway and street purposes including the cost of administering
      the state highway system and the laws creating such fees, excises, or license
      taxes, statutory refunds and adjustments provided by law, payment of principal
      and interest on highway and street bonds and obligations, expenses of state
      enforcement of traffic laws and state administration of traffic safety
      programs, payment of costs of publication and distribution of Arizona highways
      magazine, state costs of construction, reconstruction, maintenance or repair
      of public highways, streets or bridges, costs of rights of way acquisitions
      and expenses related thereto, roadside development, and for distribution to
      counties, incorporated cities and towns to be used by them solely for highway
      and street purposes including costs of rights of way acquisitions and expenses
      related thereto, construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, roadside
      development, of county, city and town roads, streets, and bridges and payment
      of principal and interest on highway and street bonds.  As long as the total
      highway user revenues derived equals or exceeds the total derived in the
      fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, the state and any county shall not receive
      from such revenues for the use of each and for distribution to cities and
      towns, fewer dollars than were received and distributed in such fiscal
      year.  This section shall not apply to moneys derived from the automobile
      license tax imposed under section 11 of article IX of the Constitution of
      Arizona.  All moneys collected in accordance with this section shall be
      distributed as provided by law.