97-MMMM - Veterans Remembrance and Cemetery Maintenance and Operation Fund.

NY State Fin L § 97-MMMM (2019) (N/A)
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(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. On or before the first day of February of each calendar year, the comptroller shall certify to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee, the amount of money deposited in the veterans remembrance and cemetery maintenance and operation fund during the preceding calendar year as the result of revenue derived pursuant to sections two hundred nine-H and six hundred twenty-seven-a of the tax law, and from all grants, gifts and bequests. 4. Moneys of the fund shall be expended only for the construction, establishment, expansion, improvement, support, operation, maintenance and the provision of perpetual care of state veterans cemeteries. As used in this section, "the construction, establishment, expansion, improvement, support, operation, maintenance and the provision of perpetual care of state veterans cemeteries" shall include, but not be limited to:

(a) The purchase, leasing or improvement of land for the purpose of the construction, establishment, expansion, improvement, support, operation, maintenance and the provision of perpetual care of state veterans cemeteries;

(b) The purchase, leasing, construction or improvement of buildings or infrastructure for the purpose of the construction, establishment, expansion, improvement, support, operation, maintenance and the provision of perpetual care of state veterans cemeteries;

(c) The purchase or leasing of equipment, tools, building materials, landscaping materials, memorial headstones or markers, monuments, columbarium niches, mausoleums, crypts, flags, flag poles, or related remembrance or cemetery items for the construction, establishment, expansion, improvement, support, operation, maintenance and the provision of perpetual care of state veterans cemeteries;

(d) The payment of salaries, wages, benefits, professional service fees, contract fees, association fees, or other charges necessary for the construction, establishment, expansion, improvement, support, operation, maintenance and the provision of perpetual care of state veterans cemeteries; and/or

(e) The purchase of any other item or service necessary for the construction, establishment, expansion, improvement, support, operation, maintenance and the provision of perpetual care of a state veterans cemetery. 5. Moneys shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the director of the division of veterans' services. 6. Moneys in the veterans remembrance and cemetery maintenance and operation fund shall be kept separate and shall not be commingled with any other moneys in the custody of the commissioner of taxation and/or the comptroller.