2006 New York Code - Duties Of Department Of Taxation And Finance.

 
    § 7. Duties of department of taxation and finance. The commissioner of
  taxation  and finance shall receive all moneys paid into the treasury of
  the state, pay all warrants drawn by the comptroller on the treasury  in
  a  timely  manner,  make  no  payment  out of the treasury except on the
  warrant of the comptroller, and annually report to  the  legislature  an
  exact  statement  of  the  balance  in the treasury, at the close of the
  preceding fiscal year, with a summary of the receipts into and  payments
  from the treasury during such year.