N.Y. State Finance Law § 97-a: Environmental quality protection fund

§ 97-a. Environmental quality protection fund. 1. There is hereby

established in the custody of the state comptroller a special fund to be

known as the "environmental quality protection fund".

2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys received by the state from

the sale of bonds pursuant to the environmental quality bond act of

nineteen hundred seventy-two together with all moneys paid to the state

by the federal government or a municipality pursuant to sections

51-0305, 51-0507, 51-0711 and 51-0907 of the environmental conservation

law.

3. Moneys of the fund, following appropriation by the legislature and

allocation by the director of the budget, shall be available only for

reimbursement of expenditures made from appropriations in accordance

with the provisions of article six of the environmental conservation law

as amended.