KRS 286.8-225: Mortgage fraud prosecution fund -- Funding -- Expenditures.

There is hereby created in the State Treasury a trust and revolving fund designated as the

"mortgage fraud prosecution fund." All civil penalties or contributions directed by the

commissioner to be transmitted to the mortgage fraud prosecution fund shall be deposited

into the fund. Expenditures from the fund may be used for the investigation and criminal

prosecution of fraudulent activities within the residential mortgage lending process,

training related to prevention, detection, and investigation of mortg age fraud, and

consumer education related to mortgage fraud. Only the commissioner of the Department

of Financial Institutions or the commissioner's designee may authorize expenditures from

the account. The money deposited in the fund is hereby appropriated for the uses set forth

in this section. Notwithstanding KRS 45.229, any money remaining in the fund at the

close of any fiscal year shall not lapse but shall be carried forward to the next fiscal year.

The fund may also receive additional state appropriations, gifts, grants, contributions, and

federal funds. All interest earned on money in the fund shall be credited to the fund.