NY Exec L § 203 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 10 - Office of General Services 203 - Additional Duties of the Commissioner.

§  203. Additional duties of the commissioner. The commissioner of the   office of general services is authorized,  within  amounts  appropriated   therefor  by  the legislature and subject to the written approval of the   attorney general, to pay and cause to be satisfied and discharged claims   for damage to personal or  real  property  or  for  bodily  injuries  or   wrongful  death  caused  in  connection  with  the  operation of a motor   vehicle (a) by officers or employees of the state, while  acting  within   the  scope  of  their  employment,  or  (b)  by other authorized persons   providing service to state government while providing such  service,  or   (c)  with  relation  to motor vehicles which are assigned on a permanent   basis with unrestricted use to state officers or employees, when  caused   by  such  officer  or  employee or by a person requested to operate such   motor vehicle by such officer  or  employee  in  the  course  of  or  in   connection  with  the  use  of  such  motor  vehicle  by such officer or   employee. Such claims payments  shall  be  made  in  accordance  with  a   contract with a private firm to process, adjust, investigate, negotiate,   settle,  pay,  and  subrogate  such  claims  on  behalf of the state, as   specified in such contract, provided that such firm is duly licensed  to   perform such services by the state department of financial services.Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law, any such contract may   provide for the payment of benefits up to a maximum  of  fifty  thousand   dollars  for  any occurrence in accordance with article fifty-one of the   insurance law and for such payments, not based  on  tort,  the  attorney   general's  approval  shall  not  be  required. Notwithstanding any other   provision of law, any payment of other property damage or bodily  injury   or  wrongful  death claims caused by a tort of such officers, employees,   or other authorized personnel shall not exceed a maximum of  twenty-five   thousand  dollars  for  each  claimant  in  accordance  with such terms,   conditions and requirements as shall be set forth in such contract.  Any   agency  or  unit  of  an agency which is supported by any funding source   other than the general fund shall reimburse the general fund for all  or   any  portion  of  such  payments made pursuant to this section which are   attributable to the other funding source.Nothing contained in this section or  in  any  contract  provided  for   herein  shall  impair  any  right  or  obligation in connection with any   executed contract of insurance entered into by the  state  separate  and   apart  from the authority granted herein. No moneys appropriated for the   purposes of this section shall be available for  expenditure  from  such   appropriation  until  a  certificate  of approval has been issued by the   director of the budget and copies of such  certificate  filed  with  the   state comptroller, the chairman of the senate finance committee, and the   chairman of the assembly ways and means committee.