After deducting from state motor vehicle registration fees, license fees, motor fuel taxes, and other special taxes imposed on motor vehicle owners and operators, other than driver's license fees, the cost of administration and collection authorized by legislative appropriation only, the proceeds remaining must be used for the construction, improvement, and maintenance of highways and the associated expenses of administration and for no other purpose, except the proceeds remaining as revenue from aviation gasoline taxes and unclaimed aviation motor fuel refunds and other aviation motor fuel excise and license taxation used by aircraft.
N.D.C.C. § 57-43.1-29