A. The Agriculture Emergency Insect Control Special Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury for the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry. The fund consists of monies transferred to it from funds appropriated to the Department for this purpose. The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall be under the control and management of the administrative authority of the Department. Expenditures from the fund shall be pursuant to the laws of this state and rules promulgated by the State Board of Agriculture.

B. The fund shall be for emergency controls that lack legislative appropriation of emergency grasshopper and range caterpillar control within the state or for the general operations of the Department, and may be used for matching purposes for those programs in which the United States Department of Agriculture participates.

C. All expenditures shall be approved by the Board. Warrants for expenditures from the fund shall be based on claims signed by an authorized employee of the Department and approved for payment by the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.