N.Y. State Finance Law 92-T – New York state campaign finance fund
§ 92-t. New York state campaign finance 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 New York state campaign finance fund.
Terms Used In N.Y. State Finance Law 92-T
- 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
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received from the New York state campaign finance fund check-off pursuant to § 630-h of the tax law, from the abandoned property fund pursuant to section ninety-five of this article, from the general fund, and from all other moneys credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law. Such fund shall also receive contributions from private individuals, organizations, or other persons to fulfill the purposes of the public financing system.
3. Moneys of the fund, following appropriation by the legislature, may be expended for the purposes of making payments to candidates pursuant to title two of Article 14 of the election law and for administrative expenses related to the implementation of Article 14 of the election law. Moneys shall be paid out of the fund by the state comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the state board of elections, or its duly designated representative, in the manner prescribed by law, not more than five working days after such voucher is received by the state comptroller.
4. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if, in any state fiscal year, the state campaign finance fund lacks the amount of money to pay all claims vouchered by eligible candidates and certified or approved by the state board of elections, any such deficiency shall be paid by the state comptroller, from funds deposited in the general fund of the state not more than four working days after such voucher is received by the state comptroller.
5. Commencing in two thousand twenty-five, if the surplus in the fund on April first of the year after a year in which a governor is elected exceeds twenty-five percent of the disbursements from the fund over the previous four years, the excess shall revert to the general fund of the state.
6. No public funds shall be paid to any participating candidates in a primary election any earlier than thirty days after designating petitions or certificates of nomination have been filed and not later than thirty days after such primary election.
7. No public funds shall be paid to any participating candidates in a general election any earlier than the day after the day of the primary election held to nominate candidates for such election.
8. No public funds shall be paid to any participating candidates in a special election any earlier than the day after the last day to file certificates of party nomination for such special election.
9. No public funds shall be paid to any participating candidate who has been disqualified or whose designating petitions have been declared invalid by the appropriate board of elections or a court of competent jurisdiction until and unless such finding is reversed by a higher court in a final judgment. No payment from the fund in the possession of such a candidate or such candidate's participating committee on the date of such disqualification or invalidation may thereafter be expended for any purpose except the payment of liabilities incurred before such date. All such moneys shall be repaid to the fund.