N.Y. State Finance Law § 99-n: Highway construction and maintenance safety education fund

§ 99-n. Highway construction and maintenance safety education fund. 1.

There is hereby established in the joint custody of the state

comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance a special

revenue fund to be known as the "highway construction and maintenance

safety education fund".

2. The fund shall consist of all monies appropriated for its purpose,

all monies required by this section or any other provision of law to be

paid into or credited to such fund, collected by the mandatory

surcharges imposed pursuant to subdivision one of section eighteen

hundred nine-d of the vehicle and traffic law. Nothing contained in this

section shall prevent the department of motor vehicles from receiving

grants or other appropriations for the purposes of the fund as defined

in this section and depositing them into the fund according to law.

3. Monies of the fund, when allocated, shall be disbursed to provide

education, advocacy and increased awareness of the laws pertaining to

maximum speed limits in highway construction and maintenance work areas

and may be used to execute contracts with private organizations for such

purposes. Such contracts shall be awarded upon competitive bids after

the issuance of requests for proposals.