2015 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - (State Finance) FUNDS OF THE STATE
97-BB - Criminal justice improvement account.

  97-bb.  Criminal  justice  improvement  account. 1. There is hereby
  established in the joint  custody  of  the  state  comptroller  and  the
  commissioner  of  the  department  of  taxation and finance a fund to be
  known as the "criminal justice improvement account".
2. The criminal justice improvement account shall  consist  of  monies
  received  by  the  state  pursuant to section 60.35 of the penal law and
  monies received by the state pursuant to section eighteen  hundred  nine
  of  the  vehicle  and  traffic  law  from any court of the unified court
  system other than town or village courts  and  all  other  fees,  fines,
  grants,  bequests  or other monies credited, appropriated or transferred
  thereto from any other fund or source. Such account shall  also  consist
  of  all  monies  received  by  the division of criminal justice services
  pursuant to subdivision ten of section one hundred sixty-eight-b of  the
  correction law.
3.  Monies  of  the  criminal  justice  improvement account, following
  appropriation by the legislature and allocation by the director  of  the
  budget  shall  be  made  available  for  local  assistance  services and
  expenses of programs to provide services to crime victims and witnesses,
  including operations of the office of victim services, and for  payments
  to  victims in accordance with the federal crime control act of 1984, as
  administered pursuant to article twenty-two of the executive law.