2019 New York Laws
EXC - Executive
Article 8 - Division of Budget
182 - Diversion of Funds Dedicated to Public Transportation Systems to the General Fund of the State or to Any Other Purpose, Is Prohibited.

§  182.  Diversion of funds dedicated to public transportation systems
to the general fund of the state or to any other purpose, is prohibited.
1.  For the purposes of this section, the  term  "public  transportation
system"  shall  mean  any  public  benefit  corporation  constituting  a
transportation authority which provides or contracts for  the  provision
of, under joint support arrangements, mass transportation services, or a
subsidiary  thereof,  or  any county or city which provides or contracts
for the provision of, pursuant to section one hundred nineteen-r of  the
general municipal law, mass transportation services.
  2.  The  director  of  the  budget  shall be prohibited from diverting
revenues derived from taxes and fees paid by the public  into  any  fund
created  by  law  including, but not limited to sections eighty-eight-a,
eighty-nine-c and ninety-two-ff of the state  finance  law  and  chapter
twenty-five  of the laws of two thousand nine for the purpose of funding
public transportation systems into the general fund of the state or into
any other fund  maintained  for  the  support  of  another  governmental
purpose.  No diversion of funds can occur contrary to this section by an
administrative act of the director of the budget or any other person  in
the executive branch.
  3. If any diversion of funds occurs by passage of legislation during a
regular or extraordinary session of the legislature, the director of the
budget shall create and include with the budget or legislation diverting
funds,  a  diversion  impact statement which shall include the following
information:
  (a) The amount of the diversion from dedicated mass transit funds;
  (b) The amount diverted from each fund;
  (c) The amount diverted expressed as current monthly transit fares;
  (d) The cumulative amount of diversion  from  dedicated  mass  transit
funds during the preceding five years;
  (e) The date or dates when the diversion is to occur; and
  (f) A detailed estimate of the impact of diversion from dedicated mass
transit  funds  will  have  on the level of public transportation system
service, maintenance, security, and the current capital program.