2015 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - (State Finance) FUNDS OF THE STATE
99-Q - Volunteer firefighting and volunteer emergency services recruitment and retention fund.

  99-q.  Volunteer  firefighting  and  volunteer  emergency  services
  recruitment and retention fund. 1. There is hereby  established  in  the
  joint  custody  of  the  commissioner  of  taxation  and finance and the
  comptroller, a special fund to be known as the  "volunteer  firefighting
  and volunteer emergency services recruitment and retention fund".
2.  Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the department
  of taxation and finance, pursuant to  the  provisions  of  sections  two
  hundred  nine-G  and  six  hundred thirty-b of the tax law and all other
  moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred  thereto  from  any  other
  fund  or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this section shall
  prevent the state from receiving  grants,  gifts  or  bequests  for  the
  purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into
  the  fund  according to law. Any interest received by the comptroller on
  moneys on deposit in such fund shall be retained in and become  part  of
  such fund.
2-a.  On or before the first day of February each year, the state fire
  administrator shall provide a written report to the temporary  president
  of  the  senate,  speaker  of  the assembly, chair of the senate finance
  committee, chair of the assembly ways and means committee, chair of  the
  senate  committee on health, chair of the assembly health committee, the
  state comptroller and the public. Such  report  shall  include  how  the
  monies of the fund were utilized during the preceding calendar year, and
  shall include:
(i)  the amount of money dispersed from the fund and the award process
  used for such disbursements;
(ii) recipients of awards from the fund;
(iii) the amount awarded to each;
(iv) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and
(v) a summary financial plan  for  such  monies  which  shall  include
  estimates  of  all  receipts  and  all disbursements for the current and
  succeeding fiscal years, along with the actual results  from  the  prior
  fiscal year.
3.  Moneys  in  such  fund shall be expended only to provide grants to
  volunteer firefighting and volunteer  emergency  services  organizations
  and   to  statewide  organizations  which  represent  the  interests  of
  volunteer firefighters and/or volunteer emergency services providers for
  the purpose of encouraging the recruitment and  retention  of  volunteer
  firefighters  and  volunteer emergency services personnel. Such purposes
  may include, but need not be limited to: development and  implementation
  of   marketing  plans,  publicity  campaigns,  and  community  awareness
  initiatives;  design,  production  and   distribution   of   promotional
  merchandise,   brochures  and  other  materials;  sponsorship  of  local
  community  events  designed  to  help  recruit   volunteers;   newspaper
  publications,  promotional  mailings  and  other advertising designed to
  help recruit volunteers.
4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and  warrant  of
  the  comptroller  on  vouchers  approved and certified by the state fire
  administrator.
5. To the extent  practicable,  the  state  fire  administrator  shall
  ensure  that all monies received during a fiscal year are expended prior
  to the end of that fiscal year.