2013 New York Consolidated Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 29 - (2901 - 2907) HOSPITAL SURVEY, PLANNING AND REVIEW
2902 - Receipt and disbursement of funds.

 
    §  2902. Receipt and disbursement of funds. The department of taxation
  and finance is  authorized  to  accept  and  receive  from  the  federal
  government  any  moneys  which the federal government shall offer to the
  state to assist it to inventory its hospitals, to  survey  the  need  of
  construction  of  hospitals,  to  develop  a program for construction of
  public  and  nonprofit  hospitals  and  to  carry  out  the   plan   for
  construction  of  such  hospitals  in  accordance with such program, and
  generally for all the purposes  for  which  any  such  moneys  shall  be
  offered  under  or  pursuant  to any federal law heretofore or hereafter
  enacted authorizing grants to the state for  such  purposes  or  similar
  purposes,  including payments to political subdivisions or any public or
  other nonprofit agencies of the state.
    Any and all such grants and moneys  awarded  for  assistance  to  this
  state  under  or  pursuant  to  any  federal  law  shall be accepted and
  received by the department of taxation and finance as custodian  thereof
  and  such  moneys, so received, shall be deposited by such department of
  taxation and finance in a special  fund  or  funds  and  shall  be  used
  exclusively  for the purposes of any such federal law. Such moneys shall
  be paid from such fund  or  funds  on  the  audit  and  warrant  of  the
  comptroller upon vouchers certified or approved by the commissioner.
    Any  moneys  appropriated  or otherwise available to the department of
  health may be disbursed by it to any political subdivision or  voluntary
  nonprofit  agency  or,  on  the  advice of the state hospital review and
  planning council, to any health systems agency, pursuant to contract for
  services rendered to effectuate the purposes of this article.