N.Y. Public Health Law § 2902: Receipt and disbursement of funds

§ 2902. Receipt and disbursement of funds. The department of taxation

and finance is authorized to accept and receive from the federal

government any moneys which the federal government shall offer to the

state to assist it to inventory its hospitals, to survey the need of

construction of hospitals, to develop a program for construction of

public and nonprofit hospitals and to carry out the plan for

construction of such hospitals in accordance with such program, and

generally for all the purposes for which any such moneys shall be

offered under or pursuant to any federal law heretofore or hereafter

enacted authorizing grants to the state for such purposes or similar

purposes, including payments to political subdivisions or any public or

other nonprofit agencies of the state.

Any and all such grants and moneys awarded for assistance to this

state under or pursuant to any federal law shall be accepted and

received by the department of taxation and finance as custodian thereof

and such moneys, so received, shall be deposited by such department of

taxation and finance in a special fund or funds and shall be used

exclusively for the purposes of any such federal law. Such moneys shall

be paid from such fund or funds on the audit and warrant of the

comptroller upon vouchers certified or approved by the commissioner.

Any moneys appropriated or otherwise available to the department of

health may be disbursed by it to any political subdivision or voluntary

nonprofit agency or, on the advice of the state hospital review and

planning council, to any health systems agency, pursuant to contract for

services rendered to effectuate the purposes of this article.