N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 2616: Appropriations by the state

§ 2616. Appropriations by the state. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions

of any general or special law, the director of the budget shall transfer

to the authority from funds appropriated to the department of

environmental conservation for the fiscal year beginning April first,

nineteen hundred eighty-one, the amount necessary including an amount

for general state charges to provide for the operation of participating

olympic facilities pursuant to agreements made with state agencies in

accordance with section twenty-six hundred fourteen of this title.

2. On or before August fifteenth, nineteen hundred eighty-one, and on

each August fifteenth thereafter the chair of the authority shall make

and deliver to the director of the budget for his or her approval and

for submission to the legislature a budget for the operation of the

authority for the forthcoming fiscal year of the state. The chair of the

authority shall deliver a copy of such budget to the chair of the senate

finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee

at the same time that the budget is delivered to the director of the

budget. The budget shall delineate the total amount needed for authority

purposes, including the funds required by the authority for operation of

the olympic facilities, the Gore Mountain ski center and the Belleayre

Mountain ski center pursuant to agreements made in accordance with

sections twenty-six hundred twelve and twenty-six hundred fourteen of

this title, the source of all funds that the authority expects to

receive and such other information as the director of the budget shall

require. The director of the budget shall approve the budget for the

operation of the authority and the governor shall recommend in his or

her annual budget appropriations to the authority if the director of the

budget determines that the budget demonstrates that the authority,

without operating at a deficit, can continue in the forthcoming fiscal

year of the state, in the exercise of its corporate purposes, powers,

duties and functions with the appropriations from the state and park

district in the amounts determined in accordance with sections

twenty-six hundred twelve and twenty-six hundred fourteen of this title

and income received by the authority from other sources. The director of

the budget shall notify the park district, the chair of the senate

finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee

not later than October first of each year whether or not he has approved

the budget.

3. The state may appropriate and provide to the authority an amount of

money determined in accordance with paragraph (g) of subdivision two and

with subdivision three of section twenty-six hundred fourteen of this

title.

4. To further assist the authority in carrying out its corporate

purposes, the governor shall recommend to the legislature in his annual

budget appropriation of such funds as may be available for such purposes

from the earnings and accumulated income upon the principal of the

winter sports education trust fund, pursuant to subdivision four of

section four hundred ninety-five-a of the education law.

5. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, no

part of such appropriations shall be available for the purposes

designated until a certificate of approval of availability shall have

been issued by the director of the budget and a copy of such certificate

is filed with the state comptroller, the chairman of the senate finance

committee and the chairman of the assembly ways and means committee.

Such certificate may be amended from time to time, subject to the

approval of the director of the budget, and a copy of each such

amendment shall be filed with the state comptroller, the chairman of the

senate finance committee and the chairman of the assembly ways and means

committee.

6. Notwithstanding the provisions of section four hundred

ninety-five-a of the education law, the sum of seven hundred fifty

thousand dollars ($750,000), is hereby appropriated to the authority

from the accumulated earnings upon the principal of the winter sports

education trust fund.