NY State Fin L § 99-Q (2021)
2021 New York Laws STF - State Finance Article 6 - 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  local  government,  chair  of  the assembly local government 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.