N.Y. State Finance Law § 97-i: New York state local government records management improvement fund

§ 97-i. New York state local government records management improvement

fund. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the state

comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance a special fund

to be known as the New York state local government records management

improvement fund.

2. Such fund shall consist of revenues derived from the imposition of

the additional fee authorized pursuant to the third undesignated

paragraph of subdivision (a) of section eight thousand eighteen,

subparagraph b of paragraph four of subdivision (a) of section eight

thousand twenty-one, subparagraph b of paragraph eleven of subdivision

(b) of section eight thousand twenty-one of the civil practice law and

rules, and subdivision one of section 7-614 of the administrative code

of the city of New York, all monies required by section 57.35 of the

arts and cultural affairs law to be paid into or credited to the fund,

any advances hereafter made by the state to the fund in anticipation of

being reimbursed by such fund, and any other monies credited or

transferred thereto from any other fund or sources pursuant to law.

3. The monies in such fund, when allocated, shall be available as

follows: (i) two million three hundred thousand dollars per year

adjusted annually to reflect the direct and indirect charges resulting

from negotiated salary increases may be used for payment of necessary

and reasonable expenses incurred by the commissioner of education in

carrying out the advisory services required in subdivision one of

section 57.23 of the arts and cultural affairs law and to implement

sections 57.21, 57.35 and 57.37 of the arts and cultural affairs law;

(ii) not less than five hundred thousand dollars per year shall be made

available to the Documentary Heritage program as provided in section 140

of the education law; (iii) not less than three hundred thousand dollars

per year shall be made available to the New York state archives

partnership trust established in chapter 758 of the laws of 1992; and

(iv) the remainder of the monies in the fund shall be used for the award

of grants to individual local governments or groups of cooperating local

governments as provided in section 57.35 of the arts and cultural

affairs law.

4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of

the comptroller on vouchers approved by the commissioner of education or

by an officer or employee of the commissioner of education designated by

the commissioner of education.