2015 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 5 - TAXATION AND FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION
Article 73 - APPORTIONMENT OF PUBLIC MONEYS
Part 1 - (3601 - 3613) GENERAL PROVISIONS
3601 - When apportioned and how applied.

  3601.  When  apportioned  and  how  applied.  The  amount  annually
  appropriated by the legislature for general support for public  schools,
  net  of  disallowances,  refunds,  reimbursements  and credits, shall be
  apportioned by the commissioner each year prior  to  the  dates  of  the
  respective  final payments provided by law and all moneys so apportioned
  shall be applied exclusively  to  school  purposes  authorized  by  law.
  General state aid claims, on forms prescribed by the commissioner, shall
  be  submitted  to  the  commissioner  by September second of each school
  year, except that the audit report  required  by  subdivision  three  of
  section  twenty-one hundred sixteen-a of this chapter shall be submitted
  to the commissioner by October fifteenth  following  the  close  of  the
  school  year  audited  for  all  districts  other  than  the city school
  districts of the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Yonkers and New
  York and by January first following the close of the school year audited
  for such city school districts.  No  aid  shall  be  paid  to  a  school
  district  or  board  of  cooperative  educational  services prior to the
  submission of claims as required by the commissioner, except that no aid
  certified as payable  to  a  school  district  by  the  commissioner  of
  taxation  and  finance pursuant to paragraph (c) of subdivision three of
  section thirteen hundred six-a of the real property  tax  law  shall  be
  withheld  due  to  the  failure of the school district to submit general
  state aid claims required by the commissioner, and except that  no  aids
  shall  be withheld due to the failure of a school district to submit the
  audit report required by subdivision three of section twenty-one hundred
  sixteen-a of this chapter until the thirtieth day following the due date
  specified in this section for such report.