N.Y. State Finance Law § 123: Legislative purpose

§ 123. Legislative purpose. It is the purpose of the legislature to

recognize that each individual citizen and taxpayer of the state has an

interest in the proper disposition of all state funds and properties.

Whenever this interest is or may be threatened by an illegal or

unconstitutional act of a state officer or employee, the need for relief

is so urgent that any citizen-taxpayer should have and hereafter does

have a right to seek the remedies provided for herein.