N.Y. State Finance Law § 42: Limitation on expenditures

§ 42. Limitation on expenditures. The several amounts appropriated in

any act shall be deemed to be only for so much thereof as shall be

sufficient to accomplish in full the purposes designated by the

appropriations and shall be paid by the division of the treasury,

department of taxation and finance, from the respective funds as

specified, pursuant to the requirements of this chapter. It shall be the

duty of the comptroller to report annually to the legislature the detail

of the several expenditures.