2021 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - Funds of the State
83-A - Habitat Conservation and Access Account.

§  83-a.  Habitat conservation and access account. (a) There is hereby
created an account within the miscellaneous capital projects  fund,  the
habitat  conservation  and  access account. The habitat conservation and
access account shall consist of up to one million five hundred  thousand
dollars  annually  from  moneys  received  by the state from the sale of
lifetime licenses for  hunting,  trapping,  and  fishing,  and  lifetime
privileges for archery and muzzle-loading pursuant to section 11-0702 of
the environmental conservation law and all moneys, revenues and interest
thereon received as a result of the application of subdivision seventeen
of section 11-0305 of the environmental conservation law authorizing the
issuance  and  sale  of  voluntary habitat stamps, other than the amount
retained by the issuing agent or officer. The habitat  conservation  and
access account shall be subject to the same restrictions and protections
as the conservation fund.
  (b)  These  moneys, after appropriation by the legislature, and within
the amounts set forth and for the several purposes specified,  shall  be
available  to  the  department  of  environmental  conservation  for the
capital expenses associated with management, protection, and restoration
of fish and wildlife habitats, and improvement and development of public
access for fish and wildlife related recreation.
  (c) All payments made from the habitat conservation and access account
shall be made by the department of taxation and finance after audit  and
upon warrant of the comptroller on vouchers approved by the commissioner
of  environmental conservation. After appropriations made available from
the habitat conservation and access account shall cease  to  have  force
and  effect,  any balances remaining unexpended and not required to meet
the proper and necessary expenses of the division of fish  and  wildlife
shall  revert  to  the  state  fish  and  game trust account established
pursuant to paragraph four of subdivision (a) of section eighty-three of
this article.
  (d) No funds may be transferred or used in any way which would  result
in  the  loss  of  eligibility  for  federal  benefits  or federal funds
pursuant to federal law, rule, or regulation as assented to  in  chapter
six  hundred  eighty-three  of the laws of nineteen hundred thirty-eight
and chapter seven hundred of the laws of nineteen hundred fifty-one.