99-N - Highway construction and maintenance safety education fund. - New York Statutes

* § 99-n. Highway construction and maintenance safety education fund. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance a special revenue fund to be known as the "highway construction and maintenance safety education fund". 2. The fund shall consist of all monies appropriated for its purpose, all monies required by this section or any other provision of law to be paid into or credited to such fund, collected by the mandatory surcharges imposed pursuant to subdivision one of section eighteen hundred nine-d of the vehicle and traffic law. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the department of motor vehicles from receiving grants or other appropriations for the purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into the fund according to law. 3. Monies of the fund, when allocated, shall be disbursed to provide education, advocacy and increased awareness of the laws pertaining to maximum speed limits in highway construction and maintenance work areas and may be used to execute contracts with private organizations for such purposes. Such contracts shall be awarded upon competitive bids after the issuance of requests for proposals. * NB There are 2 § 99-n's