Ariz. Admin. Code § R10-4-102 - Administration of the Fund

A. The Commission shall include in the Fund all funds received for compensating a claimant under this Chapter.

B. The Commission shall designate one operational unit for a jurisdiction or jurisdictions to receive an allocation from the Fund each state fiscal year.

C. The Commission shall distribute a portion of the Fund to each operational unit for expenditure by the Board. The Commission shall distribute the fund using an allocation formula approved by the Commission.

D. The Commission shall reserve the lesser of $50,000 or 10 percent of the Fund to be used in the event of an unforeseen increase of victimization that causes an operational unit for a particular jurisdiction to lack the funds needed to provide compensation.

E. If there is an unforeseen increase in victimization in a particular jurisdiction, the Commission shall designate an additional operational unit to accept claims from that jurisdiction or make a compensation award based on the criteria established by R10-4-108.

F. If, at the end of a fiscal year, an operational unit has unexpended funds received from the Commission, the operational unit shall return the funds to the Commission within 90 days after the end of the fiscal year. The Commission shall deposit the returned funds in the Fund for use in the next fiscal year.

G. Funds collected by an operational unit through subrogation or restitution may be retained by the operational unit to the extent authorized by the Commission and shall be used to pay compensation awards based on the criteria established by R10-4-108.

H. An operational unit shall use funds to pay administrative costs only to the extent authorized by the Commission.

I. An operational unit shall pay approved compensation program benefit expenses using benefit category cost rate schedules approved by the Commission. If the Commission has not approved a cost rate schedule for a benefit category, or if an eligible benefit cost is not covered by the approved rate schedule, the operational unit may negotiate a reasonable and customary cost with the service provider for the approved benefit expense.

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Ariz. Admin. Code § R10-4-102

Adopted effective December 31, 1986 (Supp. 86-6). Amended effective October 28, 1994 (Supp. 94-4). Section repealed; new Section R10-4-102 renumbered from R10-4-104 and amended by final rulemaking at 6 A.A.R. 4727, effective November 20, 2000 (Supp. 00-4). Amended by final rulemaking at 13 A.A.R. 4124, effective January 5, 2008 (Supp. 07-4). Amended by final rulemaking at 18 A.A.R. 3309, effective February 3, 2013 (Supp. 12-4). Amended by final rulemaking at 24 A.A.R. 377, effective 4/7/2018. Section expired under A.R.S. § 41-1056(J) at 29 A.A.R. 1674, effective 6/1/2023. New Section made by emergency rulemaking at 29 A.A.R. 1700, effective 7/14/2023 (EMERGENCY). New Section made by emergency rulemaking at 30 A.A.R. 315, effective 1/22/2024, exp. 7/20/2024(Emergency). New Section made by final rulemaking at 30 A.A.R. 2405, effective 7/3/2024.