The General Assembly hereby declares that in order to provide funds to combat the unlawful trafficking of drugs, unlawful gambling activities and gang activities within secure correctional facilities, it is necessary to create a separate special fund within the Bureau of Prisons. All moneys collected as contraband or from the proceeds of the auction or sale of property confiscated from the inmate population at each of these institutions shall be set aside into a special fund. This special fund is hereby created within the Office of the Bureau Chief of Prisons and shall be known as the Confiscated Contraband Interdiction Fund.

(1) Use of funds. — Funds deposited into the Confiscated Contraband Interdiction Fund shall be expended only to procure, sustain, and maintain the adequacy of investigative and security operations within the Bureau of Prisons.

(2) Creation of fund. — Upon the confiscation of any moneys or upon the receipt of the proceeds from any auction or commercially reasonable sale of confiscated property obtained as a result of any investigation, interdiction, or prosecution of disciplinary, civil, or criminal violations at the facilities listed herein the same shall be placed in the Confiscated Contraband Interdiction Fund. All auctions or sales of confiscated property as authorized herein shall be administered and approved by the Bureau Chief of Prisons.

(3) Disbursement of fund. — The disbursement of the funds from this account shall be made only upon approval by the Bureau Chief of Prisons. All requests for funds must be by written application and on a form designed for such purpose. This application and authorization form must include the following:

a. The amount of funds requested;

b. The anticipated purpose for which such funds are requested;

c. The name of the person requesting the funds and the name of the person who shall be responsible for keeping accurate records as to the use of the funds.

The Bureau Chief of Prisons shall determine whether or not the expressed purpose for the expenditure requested is within the purposes allowed under this section and whether the proposed expenditure of funds for the expressed purpose will be in the best interests of the Bureau of Prisons. If the Bureau Chief of Prisons determines that the proposed expenditure meets those criteria, the Bureau Chief of Prisons may authorize the expenditure in whole or in part and only then shall the funds be expended as requested.

(4) Accounting of funds. — Funds obtained pursuant to this subchapter shall be used only for the purposes set out in paragraph (1) of this section. Any and all funds shall be accounted for by the support services manager on or before June 30 of each year. The Bureau Chief of Prisons shall maintain a full and complete accounting for the use of such funds.

(5) Review of records. — Any funds requested and disbursed shall be accounted for through an itemized report by the Bureau Chief of Prisons to the Commissioner of Correction due no later than July 31 of each year which details each request and expenditure from the prior fiscal year.

(6) Excess funds. — If at any time the fund aggregated in this special fund exceeds $10,000, the excess shall be deposited in the General Fund.

71 Del. Laws, c. 100, § 1; 76 Del. Laws, c. 232, § 2; 79 Del. Laws, c. 16, § 1.