6-15-1. Limited effect of state mandates to provide new activities or services.No state law, rule, or regulation which mandates any county, municipality, or school district to engage in any new activity, to provide any new service, to increase any current level of activity or to provide any service beyond that required by existing law has the force of law unless or until the state provides sufficient new funding or a means of new funding to the county, municipality, or school district to pay the cost of performing the mandated activity or service for the period of time during which the activity or service is required to be performed. Source: SL 1993, ch 61, §1.
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