N.Y. Highway Law § 262: Appropriations by state for the maintenance, repair, and reconstruction of state highways and state owned bridges thereon

§ 262. Appropriations by state for the maintenance, repair, and

reconstruction of state highways and state owned bridges thereon. There

shall be annually appropriated for the maintenance, repair, and

reconstruction of improved state highways and state owned bridges

thereon, an amount sufficient to provide therefor, based upon estimates

by counties, prepared and submitted by the commissioner of

transportation. In addition thereto there shall be appropriated each

year for the same purposes an amount equal to not less than ten per

centum of the amount appropriated for counties to be known as a

maintenance contingent fund to be used by the commissioner of

transportation in his discretion to supplement the amounts appropriated

to each county for the maintenance, repair and reconstruction of state

highways and state owned bridges thereon. Such appropriations shall be

paid out of monies in the hands of the state department of taxation and

finance not otherwise appropriated on vouchers approved by the

commissioner of transportation after audit by and on the warrant of the

state comptroller.