New York Consolidated Laws, State Finance Law - STF § 92-t. New York state campaign finance fund

1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance a fund to be known as the New York state campaign finance fund.

2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received from the New York state campaign finance fund check-off pursuant to section six hundred thirty-h of the tax law, from the abandoned property fund pursuant to section ninety-five of this article, from the general fund, and from all other moneys credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law.  Such fund shall also receive contributions from private individuals, organizations, or other persons to fulfill the purposes of the public financing system.

3. Moneys of the fund, following appropriation by the legislature, may be expended for the purposes of making payments to candidates pursuant to title two of article fourteen of the election law and for administrative expenses related to the implementation of article fourteen of the election law.  Moneys shall be paid out of the fund by the state comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the state board of elections, or its duly designated representative, in the manner prescribed by law, not more than five working days after such voucher is received by the state comptroller.

4. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if, in any state fiscal year, the state campaign finance fund lacks the amount of money to pay all claims vouchered by eligible candidates and certified or approved by the state board of elections, any such deficiency shall be paid by the state comptroller, from funds deposited in the general fund of the state not more than four working days after such voucher is received by the state comptroller.

5. Commencing in two thousand twenty-five, if the surplus in the fund on April first of the year after a year in which a governor is elected exceeds twenty-five percent of the disbursements from the fund over the previous four years, the excess shall revert to the general fund of the state.

6. Public funds paid to participating candidates shall be paid in accordance with the timelines established by section 14-205 of the election law.

7. No public funds shall be paid to any participating candidates in a general election any earlier than the day after the day of the primary election held to nominate candidates for such election.

8. No public funds shall be paid to any participating candidates in a special election any earlier than the day after the last day to file certificates of party nomination for such special election.

9. No public funds shall be paid to any participating candidate who has been disqualified or whose designating petitions have been declared invalid by the appropriate board of elections or a court of competent jurisdiction until and unless such finding is reversed by a higher court in a final judgment.  No payment from the fund in the possession of such a candidate or such candidate's participating committee on the date of such disqualification or invalidation may thereafter be expended for any purpose except the payment of liabilities incurred before such date.  All such moneys shall be repaid to the fund.