True or False: 80% of civil penalty fines are allocated to the General Fund.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Not specified
• D. Both 80% allocations and 20% allocations

Answer: (A)

Civil penalties collected by the regulatory board are treated as state revenue with a fixed distribution. In this context, the statute specifies that the General Fund receives the majority—80%—and the remaining 20% is allocated to support the board’s enforcement activities. For example, if a fine is $1,000, $800 would go to the General Fund and $200 would be available to offset the board’s enforcement costs. This is why the statement is true: the 80/20 split is the defined allocation pattern.

Not specified would be incorrect because the statute outlines a specific distribution, not an undefined one. The option suggesting both 80% and 20% allocations is not accurate, since there’s a single prescribed split rather than two separate allocations.