New York Consolidated Laws, State Finance Law - STF § 97-xxx. Agriculture in the classroom 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 “agriculture in the classroom fund”.

2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys collected pursuant to section four hundred four-s of the vehicle and traffic law, and all other moneys credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law, provided, however that any funds necessary to complete design and production of the distinctive license plates authorized by section four hundred four-s of the vehicle and traffic law shall first be allocated for such purposes.

3. Moneys of the fund shall be expended for the purposes of providing funding for agriculture in the classroom programs conducted in cooperation with the department of agriculture and markets.  Moneys shall be paid out of the fund on the audit and warrant of the state comptroller on vouchers approved by the commissioner of agriculture and markets.  Any interest received by the comptroller on moneys on deposit in the agriculture in the classroom fund shall be retained in and become part of such fund.