2016 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - (State Finance) FUNDS OF THE STATE
97-MMMM - Veterans remembrance and cemetery maintenance and operation fund.

 97-mmmm. Veterans remembrance and cemetery maintenance and operation
  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 "veterans remembrance and  cemetery  maintenance  and
  operation 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-H  and  six  hundred twenty-seven-a of the tax law, and all
  other moneys appropriated, credited, or  transferred  thereto  from  any
  other  fund  or  source  pursuant  to law. Nothing in this section shall
  prevent the  state  from  soliciting  and  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.
2-a. On or before the first day of February each year, the director of
  the New York state division of veterans' affairs 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  veterans,
  homeland  security and military affairs, chair of the assembly veterans'
  affairs 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. On or before the first day of February of each calendar  year,  the
  comptroller  shall  certify  to the governor, the temporary president of
  the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate finance
  committee and the chair of the assembly ways and  means  committee,  the
  amount  of  money  deposited  in  the  veterans remembrance and cemetery
  maintenance and operation fund during the preceding calendar year as the
  result of revenue derived pursuant to sections two  hundred  nine-H  and
  six  hundred  twenty-seven-a  of the tax law, and from all grants, gifts
  and bequests.
4. Moneys of the fund shall be expended  only  for  the  construction,
  establishment,  expansion,  improvement, support, operation, maintenance
  and the provision of perpetual care of  state  veterans  cemeteries.  As
  used  in  this  section,  "the  construction,  establishment, expansion,
  improvement,  support,  operation,  maintenance  and  the  provision  of
  perpetual  care  of state veterans cemeteries" shall include, but not be
  limited to:
(a) The purchase, leasing or improvement of land for  the  purpose  of
  the   construction,   establishment,  expansion,  improvement,  support,
  operation, maintenance and the provision  of  perpetual  care  of  state
  veterans cemeteries;
(b) The purchase, leasing, construction or improvement of buildings or
  infrastructure  for  the  purpose  of  the  construction, establishment,
  expansion,  improvement,  support,  operation,   maintenance   and   the
  provision of perpetual care of state veterans cemeteries;
(c)  The  purchase or leasing of equipment, tools, building materials,
  landscaping  materials,  memorial  headstones  or  markers,   monuments,
  columbarium  niches,  mausoleums,  crypts, flags, flag poles, or related

  remembrance or  cemetery  items  for  the  construction,  establishment,
  expansion,   improvement,   support,   operation,  maintenance  and  the
  provision of perpetual care of state veterans cemeteries;
(d)  The  payment  of  salaries, wages, benefits, professional service
  fees, contract fees, association fees, or other  charges  necessary  for
  the   construction,   establishment,  expansion,  improvement,  support,
  operation, maintenance and the provision  of  perpetual  care  of  state
  veterans cemeteries; and/or
(e)  The  purchase  of  any  other  item  or service necessary for the
  construction, establishment, expansion, improvement, support, operation,
  maintenance and the provision of perpetual  care  of  a  state  veterans
  cemetery.
5.  Moneys  shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
  the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by  the  director  of
  the division of veterans affairs.
6.  Moneys  in  the  veterans remembrance and cemetery maintenance and
  operation fund shall be kept separate and shall not be  commingled  with
  any  other  moneys in the custody of the commissioner of taxation and/or
  the comptroller.