N.Y. State Finance Law § 97-ooo: Department of corrections and community supervision asset forfeiture account

§ 97-ooo. Department of corrections and community supervision asset

forfeiture account. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody

of the state comptroller and the department of corrections and community

supervision a special account within the miscellaneous special revenue

fund to be known as the department of corrections and community

supervision asset forfeiture account. Such account shall consist,

subject to necessary federal approval, of moneys received by the

department of corrections and community supervision through the

equitable sharing that is authorized in federal forfeiture actions.

2. The moneys of the account shall be available for purposes of

developing additional resources such as, but not limited to, obtaining

equipment, establishing training programs, or accessing existing

technology or databases.

3. The commissioner of the department of corrections and community

supervision shall report to the commissioner of the division of criminal

justice services, the director of the budget, the chairman of the senate

finance committee and the chairman of the assembly ways and means

committee by October first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight and every six

months thereafter, on the source and amounts of moneys in the account.

Such report shall describe the amount of moneys received by the federal

government and the department of corrections and community supervision

from the joint activities of the department and federal law enforcement

agencies, the law enforcement activities which led to such forfeiture

and the value of the assets so seized.

4. The moneys of such account shall be made available on the audit and

warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the

commissioner of the department of corrections and community supervision.