§ 164. Applications for and approval of matching funds to tourist\npromotion agencies. (a) The commissioner is hereby authorized to match\nfunds expended by recognized tourist promotion agencies and to set\nreasonable deadlines for the submission of applications for each fiscal\nyear covered by appropriations in order to assist such agencies in the\nfinancing of their recognized advertising programs. Before any such\nfunds may be expended, the tourist promotion agency shall have made\napplication to the department for such funds, and shall have therein set\nforth the schedule, budget, scope, and theme of the proposed advertising\nprogram to be undertaken for the purpose of encouraging and stimulating\ntourist travel, resort, vacation, culture and convention activities in\nthe county or counties within its area. Said application shall further\nstate, under oath or affirmation, with evidence thereof satisfactory to\nthe department, the amount of funds held by, or committed or subscribed\nto, the tourist promotion agency for the purposes herein described and\nthe amount of matching funds for which application is made, and provided\nthat all advertising purchased with funds appropriated under this act\nshall follow central conceptual themes used by the department in its\nadvertising for state tourism promotion including using any logotype or\nsimilar advertising construct in use by the department.\n (b) In reviewing such applications, the commissioner may select from\namong competing or overlapping applications the application or\napplications that the commissioner considers to be of greater benefit to\na given area and the welfare of the people of the state. Further, the\ncommissioner shall select from among filed applications those\napplications which the commissioner considers to be most in accord with\nthe guidelines established for the fiscal year in which the funds are to\nbe expended. If the commissioner determines that an application does not\nmeet the guidelines, the tourist promotion agency submitting such shall\nbe notified of its rejection and the reasons therefor by certified mail.\nA tourist promotion agency whose application has been rejected may\nresubmit the application to meet the guidelines determined by the\ncommissioner. The resubmitted application shall be postmarked within two\nweeks of the date of receipt of notice of failure of its initial\napplication. After review of a submitted or resubmitted application, if\nsatisfied that the program of the tourist promotion agency appears to be\nin accord with the purposes of this act, the commissioner shall\nauthorize in writing the payment of matching funds appropriated pursuant\nto this act to such tourist promotion agency equal to funds allocated by\nsuch agency to the program described in its application, provided,\nhowever, that such matching grant shall not exceed an amount equal to\nfive per centum of the matching grant appropriation for each county\nrepresented by such agency for the purposes set forth in this act.\nProvided that sufficient funds are appropriated, no such grant shall be\nless than either twenty thousand dollars per county represented by such\ntourist promotion agency or the amount of funds held by, or committed or\nsubscribed to such tourist promotion agency for the purposes described\nin its application, whichever sum is less. No such minimum grant shall\nallow the awarding of matching funds for applications other than those\nmeeting the guidelines established by the department.\n (c) No application submitted by a tourist promotion agency shall be\napproved unless the funds of such agency allocated to the program\ndescribed in its application are both:\n (1) equal to or greater than eight thousand dollars for each county\nrepresented by such agency, and\n (2) equal to or less than five per centum of the total matching funds\nappropriation for each county represented by such tourist promotion\nagency.\n (d) No state funds granted to a t
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