N.Y. State Finance Law § 97-bb: Criminal justice improvement account

§ 97-bb. Criminal justice improvement account. 1. There is hereby

established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the

commissioner of the department of taxation and finance a fund to be

known as the "criminal justice improvement account".

2. The criminal justice improvement account shall consist of monies

received by the state pursuant to section 60.35 of the penal law and

monies received by the state pursuant to section eighteen hundred nine

of the vehicle and traffic law from any court of the unified court

system other than town or village courts and all other fees, fines,

grants, bequests or other monies credited, appropriated or transferred

thereto from any other fund or source. Such account shall also consist

of all monies received by the division of criminal justice services

pursuant to subdivision ten of section one hundred sixty-eight-b of the

correction law.

3. Monies of the criminal justice improvement account, following

appropriation by the legislature and allocation by the director of the

budget shall be made available for local assistance services and

expenses of programs to provide services to crime victims and witnesses,

including operations of the office of victim services, and for payments

to victims in accordance with the federal crime control act of 1984, as

administered pursuant to article twenty-two of the executive law.