N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 11-0527: State aid to counties participating in control of rabies in wildlife

§ 11-0527. State aid to counties participating in control of rabies in

wildlife.

1. The board of supervisors or county legislative body of any county

may appropriate moneys for the purpose of controlling the disease rabies

in wildlife.

2. Any county situated in an area wherein the infection of wild foxes

or other wildlife populations is certified to exist with danger to

health and welfare, in accordance with the provisions of section

11-0525, may submit a plan for joint approval by the state departments

of Health, Agriculture and Markets and Environmental Conservation for

the purposes of eliminating, reducing or confining the disease rabies.

If such plan, or a modification of such plan, is approved by such

departments and is duly carried out by any such county in accordance

with such regulations as may be adopted by the Department of

Environmental Conservation (which regulations when adopted shall be made

a part of such plan) then such county shall be reimbursed by the state

to the extent of fifty per centum of the amount by it expended in the

execution of such plan; provided, however, that such reimbursement to

any county shall not exceed six thousand dollars in any state fiscal

year.

3. A county shall not be reimbursed for any moneys expended by it for

the payment of bounties for the taking of wildlife.

4. Not later than the last day of each of the months of June,

September, December and March the county treasurer of each such county

which has been certified under section 11-0525 and approved under this

section, and has incurred expenditures pursuant to the provisions of

this section during the three months' period ending on such days, shall

make a report to the Commissioner of Environmental Conservation of the

amount of such expenditures and apply for the state reimbursement herein

authorized.

5. Such report and application shall be in such form and contain such

information as may be required by the Commissioner of Environmental

Conservation. The commissioner shall thereupon promptly certify to the

comptroller for payment the amount of state reimbursement due the county

thereon. The amounts so certified by the Commissioner of Environmental

Conservation, after audit by and on the warrant of the Comptroller,

shall be paid to the county treasurers of the respective counties to

which such reimbursement is due, from any moneys available by

appropriation therefor. No reimbursement shall be made for expenditures

incurred by any county after such time as the Departments of Health and

Agriculture and Markets shall have certified that danger to health and

welfare from the disease rabies no longer exists in such county.