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2015 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - (State Finance) FUNDS OF THE STATE
97-OOO - Department of corrections and community supervision asset forfeiture account.

NY State Fin L § 97-OOO (2015) What's This?
  97-ooo.  Department  of corrections and community supervision asset
  forfeiture account. 1. There is hereby established in the joint  custody
  of the state comptroller and the department of corrections and community
  supervision  a  special account within the miscellaneous special revenue
  fund to  be  known  as  the  department  of  corrections  and  community
  supervision  asset  forfeiture  account.  Such  account  shall  consist,
  subject to  necessary  federal  approval,  of  moneys  received  by  the
  department   of   corrections  and  community  supervision  through  the
  equitable sharing that is authorized in federal forfeiture actions.

2. The moneys of the  account  shall  be  available  for  purposes  of
  developing  additional  resources such as, but not limited to, obtaining
  equipment,  establishing  training  programs,  or   accessing   existing
  technology or databases.

3.  The  commissioner  of  the department of corrections and community
  supervision shall report to the commissioner of the division of criminal
  justice services, the director of the budget, the chairman of the senate
  finance committee and the  chairman  of  the  assembly  ways  and  means
  committee  by October first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight and every six
  months thereafter, on the source and amounts of moneys in  the  account.
  Such  report shall describe the amount of moneys received by the federal
  government and the department of corrections and  community  supervision
  from  the joint activities of the department and federal law enforcement
  agencies, the law enforcement activities which led  to  such  forfeiture
  and the value of the assets so seized.

4. The moneys of such account shall be made available on the audit and
  warrant  of  the  comptroller  on  vouchers certified or approved by the
  commissioner of the department of corrections and community supervision.

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