N.Y. County Law § 705: Prosecution fund

§ 705. Prosecution fund. The board of supervisors shall have power to

appropriate and set aside a fund for the payment in advance of audit of

expenditures incurred by the district attorney, or attorney general

acting under section sixty-two of the executive law, necessarily

incurred in the prosecution of criminal actions and proceedings arising

in the county. The board of supervisors may provide for such district

attorney or attorney general to issue orders upon the county treasurer

for such payment, the countersignature of the chairman of a designated

committee of such board, accounting of such expenditures with verified

or certified vouchers attached thereto and such other conditions and

rules as may be deemed necessary. The claimant, district attorney and

the attorney general in actions or proceedings prosecuted by him shall

be jointly and severally liable for any item of expenditure for other

than a lawful county purpose disallowed upon a final audit, to be

recovered in an action brought against them by the board of supervisors

in the name of the county.