ORS 456.574: Housing and Community Services Department Fund.

(1) There is created in the General Fund of the State Treasury the Housing and Community Services Department Fund. All moneys deposited in the fund are continuously appropriated for the purposes of carrying out the programs which the Housing and Community Services Department is charged with administering subject to limitations otherwise prescribed by law.

      (2) The department may transfer to the fund amounts not to exceed $250,000 from funds available to the department. Moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the department to:

      (a) Make advances under ORS 456.559 (1)(d) or 456.710; and

      (b) Pay expenses incurred by the department in carrying out ORS 456.548 to 456.828; however, any such funds expended by the department under this paragraph must be repaid by the department into the fund from the fees and charges collected under ORS 456.625 (3) and from any other moneys available for such repayment in accordance with ORS 456.548 to 456.828.