Section 87. Payments for animals killed

The commissioner shall determine
  all claims which may be presented to him  for  indemnity  to  owners  of
  animals  killed  by  the state under the provisions of this article, and
  shall file in  his  office  a  certificate  of  his  determination  and,
  provided  the  claim  is  determined complete, shall within five days of
  having received the claim, issue his order for the  amount  due  to  the
  comptroller for payment. All claims allowed shall bear interest computed
  as  provided  in section one hundred seventy-nine-g of the state finance
  law. A claim shall be considered an invoice within the  meaning  of  the
  provisions of article eleven-A of the state finance law. Anyone having a
  right  of reimbursement pursuant to the provisions of this article shall
  be deemed to be a "contractor" having a "contract" with a "state agency"
  as such terms are defined in section one hundred seventy-nine-e  of  the
  state finance law. The commissioner shall issue his order for the amount
  due  as  determined  by the certificate, which amount shall be paid from
  the  treasury,  on  the  warrant  of  the  comptroller,  out  of  moneys
  appropriated therefor.