N.Y. Education Law § 3801: Disposition of fines for benefit of common schools

§ 3801. Disposition of fines for benefit of common schools. Whenever,

by any statute, a penalty or fine is imposed for the benefit of common

schools, and not expressly of the common schools of a town or school

district, it shall be taken to be for the benefit of the common schools

of the county within which the conviction is had; and the fine or

penalty, when paid or collected, shall be paid forthwith into the county

treasury, and the treasurer shall credit the same as school moneys of

the county, unless the county comprise a city, in which case he shall

report it to the commissioner of education, who shall apportion it upon

the basis of population by the last census, between the city and the

residue of the county, and the portion belonging to the city shall be

paid into its treasury.