N.Y. State Finance Law § 89-j: The school bus motorist education fund

* § 89-j. The school bus motorist education fund. 1. There is hereby

established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the

commissioner of taxation and finance a fund known as the school bus

motorist education fund.

2. Such fund shall consist of monies received by the state from any

court of the unified court system pursuant to section eighteen hundred

nine of the vehicle and traffic law for violations of section eleven

hundred seventy-four of such law, and all other fines, fees, grants,

bequests or other monies credited, appropriated or transferred thereto

from any other fund or source.

3. (a) Fifty percent of the monies of the fund, following

appropriation by the legislature, shall be made available to the state

comprehensive school bus driver safety training council for the study of

the illegal passing of stopped school buses by motorists, and the

development of proposals to reduce the number of motorists passing

school buses in violation of section eleven hundred seventy-four of the

vehicle and traffic law.

(b) The remaining fifty percent of the monies of such fund shall be

made available to the department of motor vehicles for the design and

implementation, in conjunction with the governor's traffic safety

committee, the departments of education and transportation, the division

of state police, and the state comprehensive school bus driver safety

training council, of a public education program to further educate

motorists of the dangers of passing a school bus in violation of section

eleven hundred seventy-four of the vehicle and traffic law, to reduce

the number of such incidents, and to promote school bus safety.

4. The monies of the fund made available pursuant to paragraph (a) of

subdivision three of this section shall be paid out on the audit and

warrant of the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the

commissioner of education. The monies of the fund made available

pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision three of this section shall be

paid out on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers

approved and certified by the commissioner of motor vehicles. At the end

of each year any monies remaining in the fund shall be retained in the

fund and shall not revert to the general fund. The interest and income

earned on money in the fund, after deducting any applicable charges,

shall be credited to the fund.

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