2019 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle and Traffic
Title 4 - Registration of Vehicles
Article 17-C - Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District Supplemental Registration Fee
499-D - Deposit and Disposition of Revenue From Supplemental Fee.

§ 499-d. Deposit and disposition of revenue from supplemental fee. The
  commissioner  shall  deposit daily all funds derived from the collection
  of the supplemental fee established pursuant to this article  with  such
  responsible   banks,  banking  houses  or  trust  companies  as  may  be
  designated by the state comptroller, in trust  for  the  credit  of  the
  metropolitan  transportation authority. An account may be established in
  one or more of such depositories. Such deposits shall be  kept  separate
  and  apart from all other money in the possession of the comptroller. On
  or before the twelfth day of each month, the commissioner shall  certify
  to  the comptroller the amount of all revenues received pursuant to this
  article during the prior month as  a  result  of  the  supplemental  fee
  imposed,  including  any interest and penalties thereon. The revenues so
  certified over the prior three months in total shall be paid over by the
  fifteenth day of the last month  of  each  calendar  quarter  from  such
  account,   without  appropriation,  into  the  corporate  transportation
  account of the metropolitan transportation authority special  assistance
  fund  established  by  section  twelve  hundred  seventy-a of the public
  authorities  law,  to  be  applied  as  provided  in  paragraph  (e)  of
  subdivision  four  of such section. Any money collected pursuant to this
  section  that  is  deposited  by  the  comptroller  in   the   corporate
  transportation  account  of  the  metropolitan  transportation authority
  special assistance fund shall be held in such fund free and clear of any
  claim by any person or entity paying an additional fee pursuant to  this
  section,  including,  without  limiting the generality of the foregoing,
  any right or claim against the  metropolitan  transportation  authority,
  any   of  its  bondholders,  or  any  subsidiary  or  affiliate  of  the
  metropolitan transportation authority.