The department may charge reasonable registration fees for participants in certain transportation education courses, and the secretary must set rules for how those fees are handled.
§105.1. Transportation Training and Education Center Dedicated Fund Account; creation A. The Department of Transportation and Development may assess reasonable registration fees to participants in transportation education courses offered by the Louisiana Transportation Research Center (LTRC) Transportation Training and Education Center. B. The secretary shall promulgate rules and regulations in accordance with law to effectuate the provisions of this Section, to implement a registration fee policy, and to provide for the uses and disposition of the fees collected. All fees collected pursuant to this Section and the rules and regulations promulgated by the secretary shall be deposited into the LTRC Transportation Training and Education Center Dedicated Fund Account as provided for in Subsection D of this Section. C. The rules and regulations may authorize the assistant secretary for project delivery or his duly authorized representative to assess reduced fees for governmental personnel and faculty and staff of colleges and universities, provided those entities meet all state and federal requirements for a fee reduction. D. There is hereby created, as a special statutorily dedicated fund account in the state treasury, the LTRC Transportation Training and Education Center Dedicated Fund Account, hereinafter referred to in this Section as the "account". After compliance with the requirements of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana, relative to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund, an amount equal to the monies received by the state treasury pursuant to the provisions of Subsections A and B of this Section and rules and regulations adopted by the Department of Transportation and Development shall be deposited into the account. The monies so deposited shall be used to defray the expenses of the LTRC Transportation Training and Education Center in connection with the development, contracting, delivery, and administration of the center's transportation training program. Monies in the account shall be invested by the state treasurer in the same manner as monies in the state general fund, and interest earned on the investment of such monies shall be credited to the account after compliance with the requirements of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana. Excess monies over and above the expenses of the center shall be distributed to workforce development programs and projects within the Department of Transportation and Development. All unexpended and unencumbered monies in the account at the end of any fiscal year shall remain in the account for use in subsequent fiscal years. Monies deposited into the account shall be categorized as fees and self-generated revenue for the sole purpose of reporting related to the executive budget, supporting documents, and general appropriation bills and shall be available for annual appropriation by the legislature. Acts 2007, No. 49, §1, eff. July 1, 2007; Acts 2021, No. 114, §14, eff. July 1, 2022; Acts 2025, No. 380, §1.