§ 97-bb. Criminal justice improvement account. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of the department of taxation and finance a fund to be known as the "criminal justice improvement account".
2. The criminal justice improvement account shall consist of monies received by the state pursuant to section 60.35 of the penal law and monies received by the state pursuant to section eighteen hundred nine of the vehicle and traffic law from any court of the unified court system other than town or village courts and all other fees, fines, grants, bequests or other monies credited, appropriated or transferred thereto from any other fund or source. Such account shall also consist of all monies received by the division of criminal justice services pursuant to subdivision ten of section one hundred sixty-eight-b of the correction law.
3. Monies of the criminal justice improvement account, following appropriation by the legislature and allocation by the director of the budget shall be made available for local assistance services and expenses of programs to provide services to crime victims and witnesses, including operations of the office of victim services, and for payments to victims in accordance with the federal crime control act of 1984, as administered pursuant to article twenty-two of the executive law.
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