N.Y. STF Law § 97-BB
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Criminal justice improvement account
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§ 97-bb. Criminal justice improvement account. 1. There is hereby\nestablished in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the\ncommissioner of the department of taxation and finance a fund to be\nknown as the "criminal justice improvement account".\n 2. The criminal justice improvement account shall consist of monies\nreceived by the state pursuant to section 60.35 of the penal law and\nmonies received by the state pursuant to section eighteen hundred nine\nof the vehicle and traffic law from any court of the unified court\nsystem other than town or village courts and all other fees, fines,\ngrants, bequests or other monies credited, appropriated or transferred\nthereto from any other fund or source. Such account shall also consist\nof all monies received by the division of criminal justice services\npursuant to subdivision ten of section one hundred sixty-eight-b of the\ncorrection law.\n 3. Monies of the criminal justice improvement account, following\nappropriation by the legislature and allocation by the director of the\nbudget shall be made available for local assistance services and\nexpenses of programs to provide services to crime victims and witnesses,\nincluding operations of the office of victim services, and for payments\nto victims in accordance with the federal crime control act of 1984, as\nadministered pursuant to article twenty-two of the executive law.\n
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