N.Y. Education Law § 3601: When apportioned and how applied

§ 3601. When apportioned and how applied. The amount annually

appropriated by the legislature for general support for public schools,

net of disallowances, refunds, reimbursements and credits, shall be

apportioned by the commissioner each year prior to the dates of the

respective final payments provided by law and all moneys so apportioned

shall be applied exclusively to school purposes authorized by law.

General state aid claims, on forms prescribed by the commissioner, shall

be submitted to the commissioner by September second of each school

year, except that the audit report required by subdivision three of

section twenty-one hundred sixteen-a of this chapter shall be submitted

to the commissioner by October fifteenth following the close of the

school year audited for all districts other than the city school

districts of the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Yonkers and New

York and by January first following the close of the school year audited

for such city school districts. No aid shall be paid to a school

district or board of cooperative educational services prior to the

submission of claims as required by the commissioner, except that no aid

certified as payable to a school district by the commissioner of

taxation and finance pursuant to paragraph (c) of subdivision three of

section thirteen hundred six-a of the real property tax law shall be

withheld due to the failure of the school district to submit general

state aid claims required by the commissioner, and except that no aids

shall be withheld due to the failure of a school district to submit the

audit report required by subdivision three of section twenty-one hundred

sixteen-a of this chapter until the thirtieth day following the due date

specified in this section for such report.