Section 111. Disposition of license fees

1. (a) On or before the fifth day
  of each month, the clerk or authorized county dog control officer  shall
  remit to the appropriate county financial officer forty-seven percent of
  all  license  fees,  except  those  exempted by paragraphs a, b and c of
  subdivision four of section one hundred ten of this  article,  collected
  during  the  preceding  month.  The remittance shall be accompanied by a
  report of license sales made during said month. A copy  of  such  report
  shall  simultaneously  be  sent to the commissioner. The balance of such
  license fees shall be the property of  the  reporting  municipality  and
  shall  be  used only for controlling dogs and enforcing this article and
  any rule,  regulation,  or  local  law  or  ordinance  adopted  pursuant
  thereto,  including subsidizing the spaying or neutering of dogs and any
  facility, as authorized under section  one  hundred  seventeen  of  this
  article, used therefor, and subsidizing public humane education programs
  in responsible dog ownership.
    (b)  On or before the fifth day of each month, the authorized pound or
  shelter manager shall remit to  the  financial  officer  of  the  county
  within  which the shelter is located, forty-seven percent of all license
  fees, except those exempted by paragraphs a, b and c of subdivision four
  of section one  hundred  ten  of  this  article,  collected  during  the
  preceding  month.  The  remittance  shall  be accompanied by a report of
  license sales made during said  month.  A  copy  of  such  report  shall
  simultaneously  be  sent  to  the  commissioner. The authorized pound or
  shelter manager shall remit the balance of  such  license  fees  to  the
  financial officer of the licensing municipality within which the shelter
  is  located. The fees remitted to the municipality shall be the property
  of that municipality and shall be used only  for  controlling  dogs  and
  enforcing  this  article  and  any  rule,  regulation,  or  local law or
  ordinance adopted pursuant thereto, including subsidizing the spaying or
  neutering of dogs and any facility,  as  authorized  under  section  one
  hundred seventeen of this article, used therefor, and subsidizing public
  humane education programs in responsible dog ownership.
    2.  On  the  fifteenth day of each month, the county financial officer
  shall remit to the commissioner thirty-six percent of all  license  fees
  received  by  the  county under this article. The moneys retained by the
  county shall be used for controlling dogs and enforcing this article and
  any rule,  regulation,  or  local  law  or  ordinance  adopted  pursuant
  thereto,  including subsidizing the spaying or neutering of dogs and any
  facility, as authorized under section  one  hundred  seventeen  of  this
  article, used therefor, and subsidizing public humane education programs
  in  responsible  dog  ownership, and may also be used for the prevention
  and investigation of cruelty to animals.
    3. On or before the first day of February in  each  year,  the  county
  financial  officer  shall apportion and pay to the appropriate financial
  officer of each town, city and village in the  county,  ratably  to  the
  annual  remittance  made  to  the  county by such town, city or village,
  seventy-five percent of any portion of the moneys not  expended  by  the
  county  during the preceding calendar year for the purposes set forth in
  subdivision two of this section. Such moneys shall be used by the towns,
  cities and villages only for the purposes set forth in  subdivision  one
  of this section.
    4.     (a)  The  moneys  received  by  the  commissioner  pursuant  to
  subdivision two of this section shall be paid into the  state  treasury,
  and  shall,  so  far  as  necessary,  be  appropriated  annually  by the
  legislature to  the  department  to  be  used  by  the  commissioner  in
  supervising  the  enforcement  of  and  in implementing this article and
  rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto,  including,  without
  limitation,  the issuance of special identification tags for guide dogs,

  service dogs, hearing dogs and detection dogs. In  addition,  from  such
  moneys  paid  into the state treasury, the legislature shall appropriate
  annually to the New York State  Veterinary  College  at  Cornell  a  sum
  equivalent  to  ten cents for each dog license issued for a period of up
  to and including one year, a sum equivalent to twenty cents for each dog
  license issued for a period of more than one and no more than two  years
  and  a  sum equivalent to thirty cents for each dog license issued for a
  period of more than two and no more than three years, to be used by  the
  college  to  conduct studies into diseases of dogs and to search for and
  study viruses that affect man and animals, or to  study  and  develop  a
  pharmaceutical contraceptive for dogs.
    (b) The commissioner shall also remit to the state treasury the moneys
  received  by him pursuant to the dog license law of the city of New York
  (section eight-a of chapter one hundred fifteen of the laws of  eighteen
  hundred ninety-four, as added by chapter one thousand two of the laws of
  nineteen hundred seventy). Such moneys shall be appropriated annually by
  the  legislature to the veterinary college for the purposes set forth in
  paragraph (a) above.
    (c) The expenditure  of  moneys  from  license  fees  appropriated  to
  support  research  conducted at the New York State College of Veterinary
  Medicine at Cornell into canine diseases affecting  humans  and  animals
  shall  not  exceed the annual revenues obtained from fees received under
  this section for such purposes.
    5. (a) On or before the fifteenth day of each month, the clerk of  any
  city,  town  or  village  located  in  Nassau  county where licenses are
  validated or issued pursuant to this article shall remit directly to the
  commissioner sixteen and ninety-two hundredths percent  of  all  license
  fees  collected  during the preceding month, except the fees exempted by
  subdivision four of  section  one  hundred  ten  of  this  article.  The
  remittance shall be accompanied by a report of license sales made during
  such preceding month.
    (b)  The  remaining  eighty-three and eight hundredths percent of such
  license fees shall be the property of  the  reporting  municipality  and
  shall  be used only for controlling dogs and enforcing the provisions of
  this article and any rule or  regulation,  or  local  law  or  ordinance
  adopted pursuant thereto, including subsidizing the spaying or neutering
  of  dogs  and  any  facility,  as  authorized  under section one hundred
  seventeen of this article, used therefor, and subsidizing public  humane
  education programs in responsible dog ownership.
    (c)  On or before the fifth day of each month, the authorized pound or
  shelter manager of each pound or shelter located in Nassau county  shall
  remit  directly  to  the  commissioner sixteen and ninety-two hundredths
  percent of all license fees collected during the preceding month, except
  the fees exempted by subdivision four of section one hundred ten of this
  article. The remittance shall be accompanied  by  a  report  of  license
  sales made during such preceding month.
    (d)  On  or before the fifth day of the month, the authorized pound or
  shelter manager shall remit to the financial officer  of  the  licensing
  municipality  within which the shelter is located, the remaining license
  fees collected during the preceding  month,  including  those  collected
  pursuant to subdivision four of section one hundred ten of this chapter.
  Such  fees  shall  be the property of the municipality and shall be used
  only for controlling dogs and  enforcing  this  article  and  any  rule,
  regulation,   or  local  law  or  ordinance  adopted  pursuant  thereto,
  including subsidizing the spaying or neutering of dogs and any facility,
  as authorized under section one hundred seventeen of this article,  used
  therefor,   and   subsidizing   public   humane  education  programs  in
  responsible dog ownership.

    6. Notwithstanding any other provision in this article, on  or  before
  the  fifth  day  of  each  month,  all  clerks and authorized county dog
  control officers and authorized pound and shelter managers  shall  remit
  to  the commissioner all moneys they received during the preceding month
  pursuant  to  paragraph c of subdivision four of section one hundred ten
  of this article. The remittance shall be  accompanied  by  a  report  of
  license  sales  to  persons who paid the additional three dollar license
  fee. Such report shall  also  contain  such  other  information  as  the
  commissioner may require by rule or regulation.