N.Y. State Finance Law 97-MM*2 – State police motor vehicle law enforcement account
** § 97-mm. State police motor vehicle law enforcement account. 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 "state police motor vehicle law enforcement account".
Terms Used In N.Y. State Finance Law 97-MM*2
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
2. The state police motor vehicle law enforcement account shall consist of all moneys received by the state pursuant to subsection (b) of § 9110 of the insurance law that are transferred to the account pursuant to paragraph two of subsection (e) of § 9110 of the insurance law and all other grants, bequests or other moneys credited, appropriated, or transferred thereto from any other fund or source.
3. Nine million one hundred thousand dollars annually of the state police motor vehicle law enforcement account, following appropriation by the legislature and allocation by the director of the budget, shall be made available for the state operation expenses of the division of state police including but not limited to the costs of activities relating to the detection, prosecution or reduction of automobile theft and related purposes. All other funds of the state police motor vehicle law enforcement account, following appropriation by the legislature and allocation by the director of the budget, shall be made available for the state operation expenses of the division of state police including but not limited to the costs of activities relating to highway safety and public security.
4. The superintendent of state police, no later than March fifteenth of each year, shall furnish to the governor, the speaker of the assembly and the temporary president of the senate, a report detailing each programmatic component associated with the automobile theft prevention activities of the state police for the previous year. The report shall include, but not be limited to, a breakdown of the funds allocated to each programmatic component, including a breakdown by personal and nonpersonal services and number of employees, and the number of arrests, convictions, and vehicle recoveries. The report shall also contain an analysis of the incidence of automobile theft for each of the state police troop jurisdictions.
** NB There are 2 § 97-mm's