N.Y. State Finance Law § 97-xx: Animal population control fund

§ 97-xx. Animal population control 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 "animal

population control fund".

2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys collected pursuant to

subdivision three of section one hundred ten of the agriculture and

markets law, and section one hundred seventeen-a of the agriculture and

markets law, and all other moneys credited or transferred thereto from

any other fund or source pursuant to law.

3. Moneys of the fund shall be expended for the purposes of carrying

out the provisions of section one hundred seventeen-a of the agriculture

and markets law. Moneys shall be paid out of the fund on the audit and

warrant of the state comptroller pursuant to subdivision four of this

section. Any interest received by the comptroller on moneys on deposit

in the animal population control fund shall be retained in and become

part of such fund.

4. The comptroller shall disperse the full balance of funds accrued

pursuant to subdivision two of this section to the administering entity

selected pursuant to subdivision one of section one hundred seventeen-a

of the agriculture and markets law on a quarterly basis for the purposes

of administering the animal population control program established

pursuant to such section.