2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 409-A - Department of Health New York City Veterans Home Income Fund.

§ 409-a. Department of health New York city veterans home income fund.
1.  There  is  established  in  the custody of the comptroller a special
account, to be known as the "department of health New York city veterans
home income fund", which shall be referred to in this  section  as  "the
fund".
2.  (a)  The commissioner shall, after the first day of July, nineteen
hundred ninety-one, pay over moneys received by the department  for  the
care,  maintenance  and treatment of patients at the New York state home
for veterans in the city of New York, together with moneys received from
fees, including parking fees, refunds, reimbursements, sales of property
and miscellaneous receipts  of  such  home  other  than  gifts,  grants,
bequests and moneys received under research contracts to the comptroller
to  be  deposited  by  the comptroller in the fund. Such moneys shall be
kept separate and shall not be commingled with any other moneys  in  the
hands  of the comptroller. All deposits of such money shall, if required
by the comptroller, be secured by obligations of the United States or of
the state of market value equal at  all  times  to  the  amount  of  the
deposit  and  all  banks and trust companies are authorized to give such
securities for such deposits.
(b) Subject to the terms of any agreement between the  department  and
the  dormitory  authority,  any such moneys in the fund not required for
immediate use, may, in the discretion of the comptroller, be invested by
the comptroller in obligations of the United  States  or  the  state  or
obligations  the  principal  and interest of which are guaranteed by the
United States or the state.
(c) The comptroller shall at all times maintain on deposit in the fund
the aggregate amount of money needed by the department during  the  next
succeeding six calendar months to comply in full with all obligations of
the  department  under  the terms of any lease, sublease or agreement of
the department with the dormitory authority relating  to  the  New  York
state home for veterans in the city of New York which is then in effect,
including  without  limitation  by  the  specification  thereof, (i) the
amount needed to make rental or other payments  thereunder  during  such
semiannual  period  and (ii) the amount needed to establish and maintain
reserves thereunder during such period.
(d) The comptroller shall from time to time but in no event later than
the last day of March, June, September and December  of  each  year  pay
over  and  deposit  in  the special revenue funds - other, miscellaneous
special revenue fund - 339, New York city veterans'  home  account,  all
moneys  in  the fund in excess of the aggregate amount of money required
to be maintained in the department of health New York City veterans home
income fund pursuant to paragraph (c) of this  subdivision.    Prior  to
making  any such transfer, the comptroller shall make and deliver to the
director of the budget and to  the  dormitory  authority  a  certificate
stating  the aggregate amount to be maintained on deposit in the fund to
comply in full with the provision of paragraph (c) of this  subdivision.
When  further  directed  by  the  commissioner,  the  comptroller  shall
transfer revenues and/or appropriations between and among  this  account
and  the  special  revenue  funds - other, miscellaneous special revenue
fund - 339, Roswell Park cancer institute account, Helen Hayes  hospital
account, New York state home for veterans and their dependents at Oxford
account, western New York veteran's home account and New York state home
for  veterans  in  the  lower-Hudson  Valley  account.   For purposes of
transferring appropriations it is intended that the  following  accounts
be  understood to be part of the same program and same fund for purposes
of section fifty-one of  the  state  finance  law,  thereby  authorizing
unlimited   interchangeability   of  appropriated  amounts  between  the
following accounts in the special revenue funds -  other,  miscellaneous

special revenue fund - 339: Roswell Park Cancer Institute Account, Helen
Hayes  Hospital  Account,  New  York  State  Home for Veterans and Their
Dependents at Oxford Account, Western New York Veterans'  Home  Account,
New York State Home for Veterans in the lower-Hudson Valley Account, and
New  York  City  Veterans'  Home  Account.    The  comptroller shall, as
determined  by  the  commissioner  and  consistent  with  any  repayment
agreement  entered  into  between  the  director  of  the budget and the
commissioner, transfer funds from  the  New  York  city  veteran's  home
account  to  the  department  of health services account to repay all or
part of any outstanding  liabilities  in  the  health  services  account
attributed to the New York city veterans' home.
3. To secure the payment of any money due or to become due in any year
under  any  lease,  sublease  or  agreement  entered  into  between  the
department and the dormitory authority relating to the  New  York  state
home  for  veterans in the city of New York, the commissioner may pledge
or assign to the dormitory authority all  or  any  moneys  in  the  fund
established  pursuant  to this section, and any and all moneys which may
be receivable by the department and credited to such fund in the future,
and any right, title and interest of the department in and to the  money
in or to be deposited in such fund.
4.  The moneys in the fund shall be paid out of such fund on the audit
and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by  the
commissioner,  or by an officer or employee of the department designated
by the commissioner, notwithstanding the provision  of  any  general  or
special law to the contrary.