N.Y. State Finance Law § 94-a: New York city county clerks' operations offset fund

§ 94-a. New York city county clerks' operations offset fund. 1. There

is hereby established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and

the commissioner of taxation and finance a fund to be known as the "New

York city county clerks' operations offset fund."

2. Such fund shall consist of the moneys transferred thereto by the

comptroller pursuant to this section.

3. On or before April twentieth in each year commencing with April

twentieth, nineteen hundred ninety-five, the chief administrator shall

determine and certify to the comptroller the amount of the aggregate

receipts derived by the state from the fees specified in paragraphs one

and two of subdivision (f) of section eight thousand twenty and section

eight thousand twenty-one of the civil practice law and rules during the

fiscal year ending the preceding March thirty-first. That amount shall

thereupon transferred by the comptroller from the general fund to the

New York city county clerks' operations offset fund.

4. All moneys in the New York city county clerks' operations offset

fund shall be available, subject to appropriation, for the payment of

services and expenses of the offices of the county clerks in the city of

New York, including liabilities incurred in a prior fiscal year but

excluding services rendered and expenses incurred by those offices in

discharge of a county clerk's powers and duties as commissioner of

jurors.

5. All payments of moneys from the New York city county clerks'

operations offset fund shall be made on the audit and warrant of the

comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the chief administrator

of the courts.