Funds for use of emergency medical services departments in counties with excess levy or dedicated fee

(a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury a special revenue fund designated and known as the County Emergency Medical Services Fund which is an interest-and-earnings accumulating account. The fund shall receive legislative appropriations, grants, gifts, devises, and donations from any public or private source. All interest and other returns derived from the deposit and investment of moneys in the County Emergency Medical Services Fund shall be credited to the fund. Any balance, including accrued interest and other returns, remaining in the fund at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to the General Revenue Fund but shall remain in the fund and be expended as provided in this section. The fund shall be administered by the Director of the West Virginia Office of Emergency Medical Services and distributed by the director to county commissions and distributed by those county commissions to emergency medical services departments in those counties for the exclusive benefit of providing emergency medical services in the county. Distributions from the fund shall be distributed only to the county commissions of counties that have in place a countywide excess levy, or a countywide fee, dedicated to emergency medical services. Among those counties, distributions shall be in relative proportion to each county’s population’s percentage of the aggregate population of all such counties combined. (b) The Director of the West Virginia Office of Emergency Medical Services may propose legislative rules, including emergency rules, for promulgation in accordance with §29A-3-1 et seq. of this code to implement this section.